Weird loading behavior when viewing this topic https://meta.discourse.org/t/66812

[anon59994034]

repro steps:
(tested in firefox 110.0, chrome 110.0.5481.104, edge 110.0.1587.50)

1. log out
2. open one of the first several posts in the topic
   Quick image resizing and markdown image dimensions
3. open one of the remaining posts and then keep scrolling down
   Quick image resizing and markdown image dimensions - #20 by elijah

Opening the first several posts results in a blank topic

Opening the remaining posts and then keep scrolling down, will keep loading the posts repeatedly
(pay attention to the “very good” image)

Console output:

[supermathie (Michael Brown)]

All I need to do is bring it up in an incognito tab, yeah something’s wrong:

[Falco]

cc @andrei

Do we need a guard for nil currentUser here?

[andrei (Andrei Prigorshnev)]

I’m able to reproduce it, working on the fix now.

[andrei (Andrei Prigorshnev)]

This happens when:

1. Some post of a topic contains a mention, and
2. The mentioned user has user status set, and
3. That status has an end date

If an anonymous user tries to load such a topic, this error happens.

And here is the fix:

FIX: anonymous users cannot load topics with mentions with a user status that has an end date