Viewing profile page gives mole error

Platform: website

Browser : Chrome

**URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/thebeachcomber

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Description of problem:

Step 1: Clicking on my profile from the home page gives me the mole error.

Step 2: Viewing other people’s profiles works normally.

Edit: now getting the same error for other people too, e.g.
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/gumnut
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/adrian2370

I’m having this problem too. I thought the person I was looking for blocked me after a very one-sided bicker. But now I’m noticing it with other users.

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If I click Nick’s name here on my feed:


I can view his profile fine.

BUT, if I type his name into the search bar and try to view his profile via the ‘About’ button, gives me the error.
https://www.inaturalist.org/users/661392 works
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/nicklambert doesn’t work

So it seems like the problem may be using the user’s ID vs their actual name?

Ah, I was wondering what was up with that as well! I was worried the person I was looking up had deleted their account.

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Me too. @thebeachcomber I click on the names and it still does that. Also, there is another bug report reporting the exact same thing. At the same time too. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/broken-links-to-user-profiles/10969

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Closing to focus at the existing bug report https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/broken-links-to-user-profiles/10969/