Suggestion: add a user search feature

Question

Every time I want to see a stinkin' user's wall, I have to go digging around in the list of questions for something they posted... you know what I mean?

Comments

You can go to your profile and edit the link

Like turn https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/user/%7ESilver%7E into https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/user/froggyfrogsock I just went to my profile and changed the end of the url to your username.

You can also favourite a user if you frequent their pages by pressing the little yellow star in the top right. Then you can go to your favourites and click on them.

If you’re trying to reply to a user who posted on your wall, you can just press their name and it’ll bring you to their page

There’s also the user page you could try to use, although that’s a bit harder if the user you’re looking for is not in the top two pages

You could technically try to use the search bar. It doesn’t work always, but it does for some users if they got mentioned enough times.

Also, chat is very good for finding links to active users pages.

I hope this helps in the meantime; this is how I find users

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https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/68720/suggestion-advanced-search

Answer 1

This probably won't be added. It's been a very long time since new features were added to PokeBase, and if Pokemaster were to do a sprint for old times sake, there'd be some more pressing things he'd focus on first.

But it's not hugely important, as you can easily find users through one of the following methods:

Method 1

Here are the links to a bunch of user's profiles.

https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/user/Mewderator
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/user/trachy
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/user/DarkTyphlosion

You will notice the only difference is their exact username at the very end. If you delete that part and write in someone else's username, the link will work.

If the user you want to go to has special characters in their name, you can use URL encoding to negotiate that (or a different method if you don't know what that means).

Method 2

Do a Google search for the username, with the text site:pokemondb.net/pokebase/user added to the search. This makes Google only show you PokemonDB users in the results (and random wallpost pages it has indexed, but those also work).

Here is an example. If it doesn't work, you can use site:pokemondb.net/pokebase (without the "user" part) to see if it brings up a question they asked or similar.

Method 3

If you've gone to the user's profile before, it's probably in your browser history if you don't clear it often. You can look for the user there.