Broken links to user profiles

This seems to be a major regression on the iNat website.

If you go to any observation page (like this one) and follow a link to the profile of any user who ID’ed or commented on the observation, the link gives a 404. For example: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/radrat doesn’t seem to resolve to my user profile.

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Just noticed this myself. Even my own profile won’t load, except up in the right corner badge where I am identified by a number rather than a user name.

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Me too. And it was just working a minute ago! Hope this is fixed soon. Although you gotta admit, the “search mole” is pretty cool. :-)

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ah you beat me to it by 5 mins (https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/viewing-profile-page-gives-mole-error/10972/5)

Problem is definitely having the username in the URL vs the user ID number

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Yeah, that and the “fail whale” are pretty cool as far as error messages go… :)

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Oooh! I haven’t seen the fail whale yet! Good thing we have a staff with a sense of humor. This lightens the mood and probably prevents a lot of grumpy answers.

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We’re investigating, sorry about that folks.

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works now :)

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Thank you!!!

Awesome, thank you.

It’s a whale shark photo and it is captioned with something like "Oops! I ate iNaturalist ". :smile_cat:

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Cool!!! Now iNat needs to fail for like 30 secs so I can see it and take a screenshot. :-)

You can see half of it here:

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Thank you!!!