tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (User search bug) 2018-11-04T13:43:52-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Anton Geraschenko comments on "User search bug" (903) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/82/user-search-bug/?Focus=903#Comment_903 2009-12-09T12:46:19-08:00 2018-11-04T13:43:52-08:00 Anton Geraschenko http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/2/ The problem is that walkthedog's display name is empty, and the user search is based entirely on display name. The name "walkthedog" appears to be automatically generated from the OpenID ... The problem is that walkthedog's display name is empty, and the user search is based entirely on display name. The name "walkthedog" appears to be automatically generated from the OpenID the user used to register.

I think it's worth posting a bug report at meta.SE pointing out the weird fact that it's possible to have an empty display name in this way.

]]> David Speyer comments on "User search bug" (900) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/82/user-search-bug/?Focus=900#Comment_900 2009-12-09T11:54:58-08:00 2018-11-04T13:43:52-08:00 David Speyer http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/23/ For some reason, searching http://mathoverflow.net/users/ never turns up http://mathoverflow.net/users/1905/walkthedog . I've tried searching for "walk", "dog" and ...
http://mathoverflow.net/users/1483/chandrasekhar

http://mathoverflow.net/users/1559/andy-lana

I was going to file a bug report over at meta.SE, but I figured I'd ask first if anyone knows why walkthedog has been consigned to the outer darkness, where he so definitely belongs.]]>