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Unable to view the profile page of some remote accounts (community.nodebb.org)

submitted 2 days ago by altcode@community.nodebb.org to c/activitypub@community.nodebb.org

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For some reason, I'm unable to view the profile page of certain remote accounts here at community.nodebb.org.

So far, I've only noticed it with some accounts from my Mastodon instance - particularly, my own account, @AltCode@social.vivaldi.net, and the @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net account, which should be viewable at https://community.nodebb.org/user/altcode@social.vivaldi.net and https://community.nodebb.org/user/vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net respectively. Instead, trying to go to either of those profile pages produces a 404 error; it's weird though, because these accounts used to work fine before.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to report this. I considered creating an issue on the GitHub repo, but at the moment I have no idea if it can affect accounts from other instances (let alone, other activitypub software), or only those from social.vivaldi.net.

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[–] AltCode@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@altcode@community.nodebb.org Here's my Mastodon account if anyone wants to test viewing my profile page from NodeBB.

[–] julian@community.nodebb.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

@altcode@social.vivaldi.net thanks for reporting. It's a persistent bug that has been evading capture for some time.

For whatever reason, occasionally some accounts will lose their handle-to-id association in the database. That is why you are not able to access the profile page, because NodeBB doesn't think it exists anymore.

For now the workaround is for me to manually reassociate, but I still have not figured out the root cause of the issue.

testing @altcode@social.vivaldi.net and @vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net

[–] AltCode@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 2 days ago

@julian @Vivaldi That was very quick. Thanks for fixing it!

And I hope you're able to find the root cause as well! Having to manually reassociate broken remote profiles every time sounds rather tedious 😅

P.S. Since I didn't say it before. Congrats on the 4.0 release! This is a very exciting time to be using forums :tony_happy: