404s on Username Changes

[sampoder]

It seems that when you change the username in Airtable, you then need to rebuild the whole site to remove the 404.

https://scrapbook.hackclub.com/sampoder/ is 404ing :(((

https://scrapbook.hackclub.com/sampoder/?welcome=false is not interestingly

my theory is this is due to the pre-rendering, going to explore :D

[lachlanjc]

Yeah, something about prerendering. I wonder if fetching the page in advance with URL parameters would help with this?

[sampoder]

Facepalm

[sampoder]

sadly my fix did not fix this

[sampoder]

ahh so we made some progress: it now only 404s when you reset your profile to a username that would have been pre rendered. So for example changing my name from sampoder -> sam it works, but sam to sampoder doesn't

[lachlanjc]

If I’m understanding you correctly, that sounds fine. We pre-render the most active users’ profile pages, which obviously includes you, so if you changed your username back to something pre-rendered, it won’t re-render. If it’s working if you change your username to something randomly new, that’s perfect

[alhardwarehyde]

@sampoder since we're back into scrapbook- is this something that needs to be addressed?

[sampoder]

Yes, this is still on the table for fixing