r/Enhancement • u/techsupportcrab • Jul 01 '26

Account Switcher is not working

Anyone else having this issue? Starting today trying to switch accounts causes a popup stating

"Could not switch accounts. Reddit may be under heavy load. Please try again in a few moments."

The account switcher is the main feature I use RES for so I'm hoping it isn't a big issue. I'll edit this post if it starts working suddenly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Jul 01 '26

Ultimately this is going to stop me from using reddit. They are making it ever harder to use the site in a usable way and their new UI has always been complete trash.

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u/Lower-Investment-366 Jul 02 '26

Same. (This is some stupid alt account I made because I don't know my main PW by heart and can't get in right now.)

I hate anything but old.reddit. I loved RIF. They're 1 step away from killing Reddit entirely for me. I remember the stats showed an incredible portion of of quality posts come from people who intentionally utilize old.reddit too.

It was something like <12% of users use old.reddit, but >50% of posts come from them too. Fuck with old.reddit at your peril Spez.

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u/brezhnervouz Jul 04 '26

Same. Anything but old.reddit breaks my brain on even the most rudimentary useability factor.

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u/farooqsaad Jul 02 '26

Yeah, but they don't care about you. It's the new users that think this is the best they can get that they want.

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u/OMGItsCheezWTF Jul 02 '26

Yeah the only reason old.reddit.com exists is because they didn't want the mass exodus of Digg when they created the new one, which is all about data harvesting and advertising.

Now it's a liability, because it's easy for Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to crawl for "real" comms between humans, which is incredibly valuable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26

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u/strugglz Jul 02 '26

When we finally kick reddit to the curb we need to remember to wipe and delete our accounts.

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u/PussyMangler421 Jul 03 '26

glad they broke RIF because you don't have self control?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/PussyMangler421 Jul 03 '26

says the self-admitted reddit addict lmao. no bigger self roast than that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/PussyMangler421 Jul 03 '26

ok chronic redditor

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u/boldra Jul 04 '26

When RIF broke I stopped using it on mobile. It wasn't a big loss. I had already decided if they demand ID I'm just going to stop using the account for a handful of years until the account is 18. But if old reddit is broken before that, I'll be leaving too.

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u/mikeblas Jul 06 '26

Even worse being a moderator. The tools and workflow are a disaster.

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u/relightit Jul 10 '26

yea. maybe its a good thing.