R.I.P.
Null user on the profile page
–
“Nobody was home. It crashed anyway.”
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- Null referenceReached for something that was not there. "Cannot read properties of undefined".
- Severity
- Medium
- Hours to kill
- 5 hours
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- Java
- Born
- 6 Apr 2026
- Fix merged
- 8 Apr 2026
- Buried
- 20 Apr 2026
- Component
- profile
- Symptoms
- Opening a deleted user's profile page crashed with a NullPointerException.
- The fix
- Returned a 404 when the user no longer exists.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “Null user on the profile page”6 Apr 2026
Fix merged8 Apr 2026
Buried20 Apr 2026