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Player Directory showing only incomplete/blank profiles?

Hey all, Trying to get my profile listed in the player directory ( <a href="https://app.roll20.net/users/1495685/daniel-p" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/users/1495685/daniel-p</a> ), and it seems to be the most filled out it's ever been (only three things to actually fill out), plus the opt-out checkbox is unchecked, yet it doesn't seem to be listed when I type in my name or email in the Player Directory: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/playerdirectory/search/?playingstructured=&nameoremail=Daniel%20P" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/playerdirectory/search/?playingstructured=&nameoremail=Daniel%20P</a> Interestingly enough, the only profiles that show up with my search criteria are those that DON'T have any "seeking games" field filled out, which is what makes me wonder if this is more of a bug than it is ignorance on my part.. Any idea?
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Gold
Forum Champion
Hi Daniel P. I did some testing, results inconclusive. The good news is, I searched for Mouse Guard players and found you in the listing! Then, I ran 3 more searches: daniel Daniel P Daniel P. and I did not see you listed under those. Something I was surprised that might be evidence, the results for "Daniel P" returned a lot of daniels who were not seen under the search for "daniel". There are more than 10 people called Daniel P (on the Daniel P search), but under "daniel" I only saw 2-3 of the many Daniel P's. I'll leave this thread open for others to respond.
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Thanks for your help, Gold. I didn't do any searches related to "anyone looking to join &lt;game&gt;," but that's probably the more important method to use anyway. But yes, alternate spellings, partial search terms, those sorts of things gave me similar results. And email search didn't return any results at all. I initially thought this was an issue with users' looking-to-join NOT being filled out. However, searching another ..psuedo-random name "Jade" returns at least two listings for people looking (currently) for Pathfinder or A Song of Ice and Fire. And "Jade" as a search term returns listings of which it's a partial string... So why "Daniel" or "Dan" doesn't return all the results one would see in "Daniel P" doesn't make sense. Perhaps this is a related issue, but I've noticed that even with highly ambiguous search strings, there are only ever 2 pages of user listings. And by adding a page=&lt;#&gt; GET variable always seems to return "No players were found with that criteria. Sorry!" when doing a name search (game search seems to work fine) - <a href="https://app.roll20.net/playerdirectory/search/?pag" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/playerdirectory/search/?pag</a>...
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Gid
Roll20 Team
Hello Daniel, I'm getting the same search peculiarities on my end when I try to do name searches. I'm going to log a ticket to see if we can figure out what's going on here. Thank you for the report!
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Gid
Roll20 Team
Okay! So after some plumbing, I figured out what's been going on. The search is working as intended–just not what the average user may expect it to. To prevent account scraping and for user security, we limit the number of search results to a single page of entries when you do a search for a user name. That would be why your username "Daniel P." unreliably appears in a search. As you likely can imagine, we have A LOT of "Daniel P."s in our user database, so it's only pulling so many users from that collective at a time. This behaves differently in private messages. When you search for a player name while writing a PM, there's logarithms in place to match up with people you've recently interacted with on the platform. As you've noted, when doing a game system search, you were able to find yourself as expected. In retrospect of this bug report finding, we may end up changing how the Player Directory functions/is designed. The most important role that side function should serve is to reliably point players to others under the common banner of a desired game system.