Description When fetching active users with the API some pages of `/admin/users/list/active.json` return a HTTP 500. Workaround If the problematic pages are skipped the other pages can be fetched without problem. Error The server error that caused the HTTP 500: ```ruby NoMethodError: undefine…

Are you running the latest version of Discourse? I believe your issue was fixed a couple months ago in FIX: Correctly handle deletion of anonymous master_user (#37983) committed 03:36PM - 17 Mar 26 UTC (UTC) …

[image] torgeirl: Our system logs indicate we started getting these errors after we upgraded from Discourse v3.5.1 to v3.5.2 in late October 2025. The referenced lines were introduced in FIX: Delegate silenced_till from anonymous user to main user account · Pull Request #32416 · discourse/discou…

@zogstrip : Yes, we are running 2026.1.3 (latest ESR, released on March 31 2026) and it looks like the fix was included in 2026.2.0 (and not backported) so the current ESR just missed it.

API calls fail due issue with main_user_record silenced_till

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Are you running the latest version of Discourse? I believe your issue was fixed a couple months ago in

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API calls fail due issue with main_user_record silenced_till

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