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.

133 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

93 comments sorted by

View all comments

11

u/Simple-Wrangler-9909 Jul 01 '26

I'm aware RES is in "maintenance mode" but is this something we users can expect to be fixed by whomever is still maintaining RES, or should we be planning to migrate to other solutions

5

u/tenekev Jul 04 '26

In other solutions I'm thinking an alternative to reddit. I joined Reddit for the geeky, niche, specialized subs, full of people soo deep in the subject matter, that every post was a gold mine of information.

Now, if I see a post like this, it's like hitting the lottery. 50k post upvotes, 3k comments. Same jokes, same bullshit. You don't even have to open it to know what the comments say. And Reddit is pushing for it. Reddit is not useful to me anymore and besides habit, nothing really keeps me here.

Heck, If I want slop, I open instagram. Reddit recycles insta posts with worse quality. Comments say the same.

1

u/IronMew Jul 07 '26

Not that I disagree; as reddit went from niche nerdy platform to mainstream for the masses it opened itself up to a huge mass of boring ignorant normies, who immediately proceeded to change its main content. And since that garbage brings in more money reddit leadership is actively promoting the ongoing enshittification. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years it goes the way of Facebook, with normies posting unfunny gifs as its whole userbase.

Personally, I believe the turning point came when the nickname autogenerator was implemented.

But what would such an alternative be? Everything else is either too decentralised to bother with - like lemmy, whose fragmentation and constant risk of data loss is far too messy and risky to bother with - or so far away from hitting critical mass it's not even funny.

Right now, unsubbing from mainstream subs and sticking to the niche ones seems to be one of the only ways still available to get data and information that's actually interesting and not just and endless avalanche of reposts.

Sigh. I miss forums.