# Typing in the users' search window is stopped
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ux
**Created:** [October 8, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872 "2024-10-08T13:54:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@yaacobyy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yaacobyy)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872/1 "2024-10-08T13:54:10Z")
When I’m searching for a group name [here](https://meta.discourse.org/g) and start to type, the search is filtered according to all the symbols I already typed after each symbol. I can wait as long as I want between the symbols.
However, when I search for a username [here](https://meta.discourse.org/u?order=username), after each symbol, I must type the next symbol after not more than ~0.4Sec or else, the results are filtered, and the cursor is no longer inside the search window, so I cannot continue typing (unless I put the cursor back inside the search window again and again after each symbol).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872/2 "2024-10-08T13:56:09Z")
> [@Focus shift while searching the user directory](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focus-shift-while-searching-the-user-directory/294359):
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> If you type not fast enough in the search field of the user directory, the focus shifts to heart Received, leading to the activation of keyboard shortcuts if you don’t notice. Short screencast of the focus shift: And one where, by trying to add a “u”, the keyboard shortcut is triggered:
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872/3 "2024-10-08T15:45:24Z")
@yaacobyy Since we already have an open topic for this issue, I’m going to close this topic out — let’s pick up the conversation [over here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/focus-shift-while-searching-the-user-directory/294359).
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### Author:  [@lindsey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lindsey)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/typing-in-the-users-search-window-is-stopped/329872/4 "2024-10-08T15:45:27Z")