SteemConnect and Multiple SteemFollower Accounts Issue
This is NOT a post about why, when, or how you should or should not use Steemfollower.
I have two Steemit accounts. This one, which is my personal account, and @nssi-advocate, which is a project account that I have just set up and am working to start posting to.
I have been using Steemfollower (or "SF") for both of my accounts.
If you are unfamiliar with SF, just give it a quick search-a-roo or googley-goo and you'll find a ton of articles written about it. Here is my referral link if you're interested in signing up and want to spread the love like that: https://steemfollower.com/?r=10513
Moving on!
The issue I have run into just this morning is that I can no longer switch between my two accounts.
)I know this may be rather insignificant and a tad petty, but I like SF and want to continue using it to its fullest extent.
SF relies on another awesome Steem-related project (off-chain? side-chain? two-chains? I don't know what we call these things) called SteemConnect ("SC"). It is an awesome project that you can read about here. The folks at @busy.org and/or @fabien and @ekitcho (it's hard for me to sometimes tell who is or was making things happen) have put together something very useful. I'm also not sure who is running the @steemfollower account. Is it @reko, @neander-squirrel, @mahdiyari or none of the above?
SC is a simple identity layer built on top of the Steem blockchain, that allows you to connect to authorized apps is a secure and convenient way.
Basically, the way my tiny little brain understands this is that SC communicates with the Steem blockchain to verify your identity in a secure manner and thus allows you to utilize the numerous and great, but somewhat still untested, Steem side-projects. That way, I don't have to worry about whether SteemBaths, my favorite virtual hygiene app, is 100% secure as long as SC has my credentials on lock-down.
Okay, you get it, they're great. So what's the problem?
Well, in furtherance of the goal to create a beautiful and streamlined user experience, SF, through SC, has started logging me in automatically without allowing an option to switch users. It was not a cookie/cache issue. And while I could probably clear saved passwords and start the login over each time, I'm not about to do that.
That is just about as far as my tool-set takes me.
Sure, I could probably also switch browsers, but for the love of all things that are holy, please do not make me use Internet Explorer; SF wouldn't even load on there when I tried.
I recognize that most of this is above me and I might just be an idiot.
If that's the case, my apologies for making a fuss over this and if you wouldn't mind holding my hand through the solution in the comments, I'd be forever grateful. Well, maybe not forever, but it would go a long way.
But, I also like to think that I'm not a total idiot and figured that if I am having this problem, then other people (who want to run two accounts) might be having this problem too. There is probably a pretty straight forward solution that people much smarter than myself could implement in their sleep.
So if any of you wonderful people have experienced this problem OR more importantly, have a solution, please drop some of thems wisdoms in a comment.
Until next time, be blessed.
~Sam
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Kind of redundant, but consistency is important. Thanks Ma!
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If your default browser is Chrome, try using an alternative browser for the second account, This will allow for both accounts to be logged in, will save the issue of having to log out of one account to enter the other.
Yeah, I considered that option:
For some unknown reason, my work does not allow me to install Firefox on my work computer. So it is Chrome or IE. And IE both sucks AND would not allow me to login on SF.
Thanks for the suggestion. It would work under normal conditions.
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Update, for anyone who actually cares: Thanks to @MahdiYari for responding to my questions on Discord. He suggested logging out of my steemconnect via steemconnect.com/dashboard. That does allow me to logout of one account and into the other, but unfortunately, it does not effect the automatic login on steemfollower. Even after logging out of my first account on steemconnect, I am unable to login to my second account on steemfollower.
The search continues!
Good work, good luck always on your side....
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