# Serializer Error When Listing All Time Users Directory
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897 "2016-09-30T07:06:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@kstaikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kstaikov)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/1 "2016-09-30T07:06:44Z")
/directory\_items?period=all&order=likes\_received returns a 500.
On the UI, the spinner just spins forever if I have selected all time, otherwise the other options (weekly, monthly, etc.) load OK. However, they show a user that is blank that is probably a test user I deleted after making a post:
The logs show a serializer error:
```
NoMethodError (undefined method `time_read' for nil:NilClass) /var/www/discourse/app/serializers/directory_item_serializer.rb:14:in `time_read'
```
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/2 "2016-09-30T15:31:34Z")
Can’t repro.
Did how exactly you deleted the user?
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### Author:  [@kstaikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kstaikov)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/3 "2016-09-30T15:51:05Z")
delete all posts, delete user. I had created a handful of users and posted and deleted them all fine, strictly through UI, etc. Only thing that stands out is that one topic was created while I was impersonating another user.
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### Author:  [@kstaikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kstaikov)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/4 "2016-09-30T16:00:39Z")
Is there anything I can do to manually clean it up?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/5 "2016-09-30T16:03:24Z")
I think this is somehow related to the batch that updates this page didn’t ran after the delete. Gotta repro yet, tough.
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### Author:  [@kstaikov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kstaikov)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/6 "2016-09-30T20:37:27Z")
I haven’t touched anything but I guess some job ran eventually and now it is okay and works fine, hmm
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serializer-error-when-listing-all-time-users-directory/50897/7 "2016-09-30T21:29:35Z")