Search Function Doesn't List Member Name

[Lucid Lunacy]

Earlier this morning, I was looking for a post in one of Slayer Anderson's threads. I forgot the title, so I opened up the Search function, and in the By: [Member] field typed out the requisite name. Usually, by the time I'm partway through, the name pops up in the list. That did not happen. Several similar names will pop up, but not the one I searched for. I tried multiple times with other names, including my own, with the same result.

 

[AztecCroc]

Earlier this morning, I was looking for a post in one of Slayer Anderson's threads. I forgot the title, so I opened up the Search function, and in the By: [Member] field typed out the requisite name. Usually, by the time I'm partway through, the name pops up in the list. That did not happen. Several similar names will pop up, but not the one I searched for. I tried multiple times with other names, including my own, with the same result.

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Search function doesn't like names with spaces. It can recognize that it's an actual member's name, but it won't show it on the list. It will still search it properly if you just manually type it out,

 

[Lucid Lunacy]

Search function doesn't like names with spaces. It can recognize that it's an actual member's name, but it won't show it on the list. It will still search it properly if you just manually type it out,

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Prior to today, there have been zero issues like the above. And I tested other names that don't have any spaces, so it's not that. Some names work fine, and some don't. It's weird.

 

[magic9mushroom]

Earlier this morning, I was looking for a post in one of Slayer Anderson's threads. I forgot the title, so I opened up the Search function, and in the By: [Member] field typed out the requisite name. Usually, by the time I'm partway through, the name pops up in the list. That did not happen. Several similar names will pop up, but not the one I searched for. I tried multiple times with other names, including my own, with the same result.

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Happened to me too, with my username. Tested logged in and out, same results. (Also affects the Find Member box in the Members screen.)

I suspect some sort of glitch may have set the "unperson" flag on a bunch of accounts (I don't know what it's called in the backend, but there's something that does exactly this effect to banned members - it's a valid username but will never autocomplete).

EDIT: I suspect this has hit about 10-20% of all QQ accounts. Staff usernames that have become un-autocompletable that I've found so far: Megaolix, YiteWrite, Legend of Ruina and tehelgee.

 

[Lucid Lunacy]

I suspect some sort of glitch may have set the "unperson" flag on a bunch of accounts (I don't know what it's called in the backend, but there's something that does exactly this effect to banned members - it's a valid username but will never autocomplete).

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Huh. I didn't realize there was a function for that. If that's the case, then you're likely correct.

 

[magic9mushroom]

@ultima333 @alethiophile @tehelgee

I think something of this scale probably needs the admin tools to fix (my guess is thousands of accounts with the "name doesn't autocomplete" flag erroneously tripped), so I'm tagging you all.

 

[Drak4806]

I was wondering why my name didn't pop up anymore when I was searching through old posts of mine

 

[Prevaric]

Huh, I noticed this issue just yesterday. The search works if you type it in manually, but the autocomplete doesn't. It's a pretty minor problem, but it's made more annoying by the fact that if you carelessly hit enter after typing it in, it'll 'correct' your search to the first autocomplete it can find.

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

This problem is still developing: My username was autocompleting on Monday, when I tested others which weren't, but I noticed it isn't today.

 

[havefeith]

Search function doesn't like names with spaces. It can recognize that it's an actual member's name, but it won't show it on the list. It will still search it properly if you just manually type it out,

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I just tried tagging StreamingViking in their own thread using the usual drop down menu... similar names appeared, but not theirs, even as I had it spelled correctly, but without capitals. Something has broken the member search function.