Hello,
There is a specific group I have encountered that has an odd member count bug.
When you view the group, you will find that the member count is 0, even though the owner of the group is still in the group.
I do not know what might have caused this, as I am not the person behind the group.
This is the first time I’ve discovered something like this.
Screenshots:
Maybe an update was recently introduced where the owner doesn’t count as a member.
Doesn’t seem like it. An unused group of mine shows correctly as 1 Members when only the owner (me) is in the group:
I think it’s worth mentioning that the owner of the group recently changed their username, this might be the cause.
This is an interesting issue, I never saw this before.
It is most likely the person booted a ton of people from the group at once, thats how I’ve managed to glitch my counters before.
I have managed to replicate this with my following for example:
I sort of like the error, going to be honest.
I’m managing a group that has this issue as well. This bug has something to do with users not being added to the group members list even if the user is a member of that group based on their profile. This bug happens inconsistently. The current way to fix this is to make the member rejoin the group.
This has been a bug with my group ever since I made it (~3 years ago), but I thought it would resolve itself once a few people other than me joined it. It did not so I am reporting it now.
One of my groups (link), has never counted me in it’s member count. When I was the only user in the group, it showed that the number of members in the group was zero, but also showed that I had the owner rank. Even now, there are four people in the group, yet the member count shows as 3.
Owner rank with dropdown list of all roles showing:
Looks like this is the case even though I had joined it. That’s super strange, have you considered swapping ownership with an alt account of yours and see if it updates?
When I had initially left the group, the group remained on my groups page and it still showed that I was in the group, but the member count decreased, which should have signified that I left the group. When I opted to leave again, it removed me from the list, but the member count decreased again.
EDIT: I joined again to see if this occurred, but it made me leave normally after the first time.
Well now it says there are 2 people when there are really 4.
Yeah, when I had joined, it ignored you, and when I left, it showed that I was still a member, rank and all, even though the member count dropped by 1! And it dropped again after I tried to leave again, except this time it removed me from the list!
I’m bamboozled.
When I first made my group, I wasn’t excluded from the member count. But as my group grew with new members, I then noticed I was excluded from the member count.
