Users page always has no results

[pyxfluff (Pyx)]

Reproduction Steps:

• Click here
• Click any sort
  You should get this page:

Expected behavior: I get a list of users
Actual behavior: It says “No users found”

[sjr04 (uep)]

This is intended behavior:

"Users" Page is Broken/Non-existent

This is intentional, this page doesn’t scale with the number of posts and users we have. Every time Discourse recalculates this it joins several tables with millions of rows together and puts large strain on our database (something along the lines of 5-10x regular database load for extended period of time), without providing the ability for us to throttle these apart from turning the feature off entirely. This was impacting other forum functionality while the operation was being performed. (you …

perhaps the string can be updated to better reflect this rather than a generic “No results were found.”

[pyxfluff (Pyx)]

I feel like then it should say “Page not found” or something, or make it functional because it’s just an error in the console

They also just deleted the cakeday page outright, it used to work.

EDIT: I made it a feature request on Discourse’s side
Display a warning when the Users page is disabled instead of a blank page - ux - Discourse Meta

Edit 2: looks like it was acknowledged by Discourse

[Hooksmith]

This is intended as stated above. Feel free to report to Discourse if you feel the page should 404 when the respective setting is disabled. We can’t prioritize putting effort into changes like this unfortunately.