The discussion addresses a bug where the user card fails to display properly when clicking on an avatar of a deactivated account, particularly in topics with oneboxes. pfaffman first noted the issue, linking to a topic where the user card either doesn’t appear or disappears immediately. codinghorror identified a JavaScript error in the console as the cause. sam confirmed the issue occurs when accessing a deactivated account, suggesting the system should handle 404 responses by displaying a message like “account not active.” pfaffman acknowledged the issue, and sam clarified that the bug is already assigned, with nbianca having fixed it in a pull request here.
Over at What happens when a topic has over 1000 replies? - general - Discourse Demo if you click on the avatar of the first post or Sam’s 3rd post, the user card either doesn’t come up or immediately disappears. Also this post.
I think it has to do with there being a one-box there, though the onebox explanation doesn’t cover the first-post case.
I think I see the problem @sam in the f12 error console
The repro here is
Very big edge case … I guess if we get a 404 or something when asking for extra data we should say “account not active” or something like that.
Oh. That seems like… Nothing. Sorry.
Odd, we actually have this assigned out at the moment.
I believe @nbianca is working on a fix.
I have fixed this bug in:
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