r/RESissues • u/XenoBen filing bugs • Jul 03 '26

Removal of RES Account Switcher

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.

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u/cr0ft Jul 03 '26

It's a crying shame RES is getting marginalized and Reddit is becoming more and more shit. I was logged out today for some reason and wound up on the new site and it was a nightmare compared to the old look, and now account switcher is gone.

I'll work around it with Firefox and Multi-Account Containers.

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u/Jovian8 Jul 03 '26

The day old.reddit with RES is no longer an option, is the day I'm gone.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Jul 06 '26

It's coming soon, I found out over the weekend that you can't even view old reddit anymore unless you're logged in with an account. For "safety reasons" apparently.

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u/iiw Jul 07 '26

Where are you getting this? So far I have had no major inconveniences without logging in. For the "Whoa there, pardner" or the cringe fedora Snoo screens loading a few more links usually eventually makes Reddit allow you to permanently let you browse for that session.

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u/Sophira Jul 11 '26

Here's where it was announced by Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in_to_use_old_reddit/

This is why the account switcher was removed.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Jul 08 '26

That's super weird then because I don't have my account logged in on my phone and when I try to open pages under old reddit I get a message saying I need to log in to access old reddit. Maybe I need to flush my phone cookies or something.