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Underscore Palpad Bug

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Rini
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 19:46 (8 Years ago)
A few of my friends had told me that since I had changed my username to just 4 underscores, they are unable to search my name in the palpad. Now since I'm not sure if I can search my own name in the palpads, I can't tell whether it's doing that glitch for me, or if it just can't search myself, so I personally can't fully confirm this glitch, but a few people have told me of this, so I assume it's true.
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 19:54 (8 Years ago)
i found you just fine (and you cant search for yourself, i checked)

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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:04 (8 Years ago)
I couldn't find you immediately, but I think I figured out why it's so hard to find you:
In the PalPad, the _ is used to indicate a letter you don't remember, though you know there are letter before and after.

I'll give a (pokémon) example: You're looking for Rapidash (the user); you know it starts with R and ends with "dash" and are pretty sure there are three letters missing. If you type in "R___dash" the PalPad will search for word(s) that fit that criterium - an "r" followed by three random letters, followed by "dash".

Because your name is, essentially, a search for users with at least 4 symbols, you'll be among the possibilities, but because there are a lot of usernames that fit that criteria, you might not show up in the visible list of results.

(edit - it'll also show results with symbols before the "r" and after "dash". The only thing that matters for the search is finding the "r___dash"; any symbols before or after don't matter and won't limit the search)
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:07 (8 Years ago)
Its not just PalPad it is also the search bar in Userlist...
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:09 (8 Years ago)
well when i searched, i only got her

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CatLady
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:11 (8 Years ago)
What browser are you using? Maybe the "search keys" are browser exclusive?
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:11 (8 Years ago)
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 20:13 (8 Years ago)
I'm using google chrome so that could explain it...
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Rini
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Posted: Sun, 21/06/2015 22:33 (8 Years ago)
Oh okay. Well I'm not sure if there would be a way to fix that then, since it seems like a problem for Google chrome, although most users, I assume, use google chrome.
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Posted: Fri, 15/12/2017 13:27 (6 Years ago)
Giving this a BUMP
Not because it's still happening on Google Chrome, but because it's also happening on FireFox.
Not sure if this can be 'fixed', though.
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Posted: Fri, 30/03/2018 09:16 (6 Years ago)
Fixed!

Also fixed for the search tool on the Userlist page.