User page says that the list is empty when looking in a specific group because "your community is still brand new"

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If you go to this page here on Meta, it says:

The image shows a screenshot of a community forum, Discourse, with a message about brand new content and a list of community members. (Captioned by AI)
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But:
The image shows a screenshot of a message on the message board meta.discourse.org, which was posted in February 2013. (Captioned by AI)
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Could it perhaps say that there are no members in the group?

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You have found another edge case

Solved: Text for no results in user directory
Unsolved: Misleading text for no results in user directory when ‘enable user directory’ disabled

I still wonder when the new default text is visible. I thought it was for new sites before the jobs ran the first time, but bootstrap mode adds users immediately, so I would expect that even the first user wouldn’t see an empty directory. At least that’s how I understood:

FIX: Create directory items for new users when in bootstrap mode (#27… · discourse/discourse@e3ae57e · GitHub
The users directory is updated on a daily cadence. However, when a site is new and doesn’t have many users, it can be confusing that a user who has just joined doesn’t show up in the users until a day after they join. To eliminate this confusion, this commit triggers a refresh for the users directory as soon as as a user joins, if the site is in bootstrap mode. The reason for the conditional trigger is that refreshing the users directory is an expensive operation and doing it often on a large site with many users could lead to performance problems.

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