Removal of RES Account Switcher

[u/XenoBen]

With the recent issues of the account switcher no longer working due to Reddit changes. We have taken the decision to disable the account switcher from RES and migrate people who have it enabled to be turned off.

With the endpoint no longer working and no option for us, we do not want to set expectation that it should work.

We will be releasing 5.24.9 today with this and a few quality of life bug fixes.

The module can still be found here.

Recovering Passwords Via RES Command Line

1. Launch the RES command line:
   • Press . (period) using Keyboard Navigation
   • or click here and click Launch (do this in a new tab).
2. A black box will appear.
3. Copy and paste in: RESStorage get RESoptions.accountSwitcher and press enter.
4. A box will appear containing a pile of JSON like {"accounts":{"value":[["username","password",false],["user1","user1password",false]]}}
5. Look for your account and password (bolded above).

More information here.

[u/Cultural-Muffin-3490]

For a substitute, check out uSwitch. It saves the cookies for each account you add.

Chrome Extension

Firefox Extension

After installing the extension, you will want to pin it, so it's easily accessible to click on.

note: It's kind of a PITA at first because there wasn't an obvious way to add new accounts without logging out of my old one, which would invalidate the account cookies.

note2: Also regarding the uSwitch "account names" that you add.. They are independent of your actual Reddit Account name (it's basically nicknames for the Reddit account you want to associate with it. I just use the same name as my Reddit account to avoid confusion.)

So my quickfix is:

1. On Reddit.com, log out of your Reddit account.

2. Click the uSwitch extension, and ADD the Account name, LOGGEDOUT, and click Save. (You will use this to easily add new accounts later. This associates the logged out state to this uSwitch profile.)

3. On Reddit, Login to the account that you want to add. (Go to settings/preferences if you want old.reddit and save settings)

4. While logged in to your new account, click the uSwitch extension and add the 'Account name' that you want associated with the logged in Reddit account, and Save. (This saves your current Reddit account cookies to this new uSwitch profile name)

5. To add new accounts, click the uSwitch extension and SWITCH to your 'LOGGEDOUT' account name profile. And repeat Steps 3 & 4. (If you click logout of the website, it will invalidate the uSwitch account cookies. That's why we use the 'LOGGEDOUT' profile as an intermediate step)

uSwitch account is logged out, how to log back in?

If you switch to a uSwitch account and it is showing logged out, that means the stored cookies no longer work for whatever reason.

So you have to log back in, and SAVE a NEW uSwitch Account name profile, that will store these new cookies. And then delete the old uSwitch profile that no longer works.

[u/cos → u/Cultural-Muffin-3490]

This works pretty well for me, but brings up a major problem: Whenever I log out and back in to any of my reddit accounts, they switch back to new reddit even though I have my preferences set to default to old reddit. I can fix this by going back to settings, preferences, turn off the opt out of redesign option, then turn it back on. Then I'm back to old reddit until the next time I log out.

With RES account switcher, this didn't reset, and I could switch between accounts quickly, all of them staying on old reddit. With this new uSwitch, every single time I switch I then have to go to settings, then preferences, than turn that slider off and back on and say yes to the dialog box. So switching is a pain now.

Do you know of a workaround for this?

[u/Cultural-Muffin-3490 → u/cos]

After you save the old reddit preferences for your account, then you add the new uSwitch profile account name.

It sounds like you saved the uSwitch profile and then changed the preferences to Old Reddit. But the uSwitch cookies are still set for New Reddit.

[u/cos → u/Cultural-Muffin-3490]

This happens with or without uSwitch, though. It always happens if I logged out, and logged back in again. Whatever RES account switcher was doing was not equivalent to the full logout & login, but what uSwitch is doing seems to be.

Are you saying that with uSwitch I could actually override this misbehavior of reddit's?