Trying to find an old friend here..

Caminante01 · Sunday at 4:29 PM

Hey all
Im trying to locate an old friend user here. Got my old phone stolen and lost my old account. Her user name was something like LawGal or something like that. She was a retired lawyer from Boston and was very kind to me and helped me along the way.
Anyone knows how to possibly find users? Is there a user list of some sort somewhere?

trecile · Sunday at 4:52 PM

Is it @CTLawGal?

Caminante01 · Sunday at 5:20 PM

trecile said:
Is it @CTLawGal?

Could u pls fwd her my email? Since im new (w this account) i still cannot dm her!

Perambulating Griffin · Sunday at 5:24 PM

Caminante01 said:
Could u pls fwd her my email? Since im new (w this account) i still cannot dm her!

Because she has been “@-ed” here, she will see the thread and will be able to contact you.

trecile · Sunday at 5:31 PM

Caminante01 said:
Could u pls fwd her my email? Since im new (w this account) i still cannot dm her!

It looks like you reached the minimum number of posts required to have messaging privileges today.

grayland · Sunday at 5:33 PM

Keep in mind that not all members welcome private messages and may have that function restricted.

CTLawGal · Sunday at 5:51 PM

He found me, thanks to @trecile

Be good, do good, open your heart to beauty. Gratitude

C clearly · Sunday at 7:34 PM

Perambulating Griffin said:
Because she has been “@-ed” here, she will see the thread and will be able to contact you.

Unfortunately, I don't think that method of tagging to alert a member works on this forum.

I will test it here... @Perambulating Griffin , did you receive any alert for this @Perambulating Griffin ?

CTLawGal · Sunday at 8:01 PM

I can confirm that I did not receive any kind of notification when @trecile flagged me; the OP sent me a DM and that’s how I found this thread.

CTLawGal · Sunday at 8:03 PM

Also, I will add that even though I thought I was logged in, when I just tried to post that reply on my iPhone on the App I got a message saying I had to log in. This has been happening a lot since the upgrades to the website. Of course Google wants me to log in thru them but I never do that.

dougfitz · Sunday at 11:29 PM

CTLawGal said:
Also, I will add that even though I thought I was logged in, when I just tried to post that reply on my iPhone on the App I got a message saying I had to log in. This has been happening a lot since the upgrades to the website. Of course Google wants me to log in thru them but I never do that.

I find it does this when I don't tick the 'stay logged in' box on the sign-in page, but there might be other reasons for this behaviour.

CTLawGal · Sunday at 11:31 PM

dougfitz said:
I find it does this when I don't tick the 'stay logged in' box on the sign-in page, but there might be other reasons for this behaviour.

I get that, but that box was ticked. I should have mentioned it.

Peterexpatkiwi · Monday at 12:47 AM

Great that you two were able to find each other so quickly.

I only ever use my phone to login, it is set to 'stay logged in', for whatever reason the system periodically kicks me out too. It has always done that, and always kicks me out at least once after an upgrade.

Perambulating Griffin · Monday at 4:32 AM

C clearly said:
Unfortunately, I don't think that method of tagging to alert a member works on this forum.

I will test it here... @Perambulating Griffin , did you receive any alert for this @Perambulating Griffin ?

Huh… I didn’t ! I *used to*! So… now I’m a bit confused about what the tagging does if not alert someone that they are being cited? Or called into a conversation thread…

trecile · Monday at 4:55 AM

C clearly said:
Unfortunately, I don't think that method of tagging to alert a member works on this forum.

It seems that it should if you have the box checked, but I don't see any "mentions" in my alerts. Definitely a question for @ivar. (who probably won't be alerted to this message )

Peterexpatkiwi · Monday at 8:46 AM

It certainly used to work, but seems to have disappeared after one of the updates. A bit like the 'to the top of the page' function disappeared after the last update.
A little annoying, because both were useful

ivar · Monday at 10:14 AM

trecile said:
It seems that it should if you have the box checked, but I don't see any "mentions" in my alerts. Definitely a question for @ivar. (who probably won't be alerted to this message )

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Ok, I have made some changes in the backend.. see if it is working now @trecile

CTLawGal · Monday at 1:28 PM

ivar said:
Ok, I have made some changes in the backend.. see if it is working now @trecile

I don't know if it IS working now, but now I'm thinking how serendipitous it is that in trying to find me, not only was this post successful in actually finding me, but also helped find a feature that was no longer working! (and maybe even resulted in it being fixed!)

trecile · Monday at 5:16 PM

ivar said:
Ok, I have made some changes in the backend.. see if it is working now @trecile

I got a notification that you had quoted my post, but not a notification that you had "mentioned" me.

ivar · Monday at 5:17 PM

trecile said:
I got a notification that you had quoted my post, but not a notification that you had "mentioned" me.

ok, need to look into this again..

ivar · Monday at 5:23 PM

@trecile ?

trecile · Monday at 5:35 PM

ivar said:
@trecile ?

It worked!

CTLawGal · Monday at 7:32 PM

trecile said:
It worked!

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Success!

CTLawGal · Monday at 7:32 PM

CTLawGal said:
I don't know if it IS working now, but now I'm thinking how serendipitous it is that in trying to find me, not only was this post successful in actually finding me, but also helped find a feature that was no longer working! (and maybe even resulted in it being fixed!)

Woohoo! It HAS been fixed!

C clearly · Monday at 8:40 PM

Peterexpatkiwi said:
It certainly used to work,

CTLawGal said:
Woohoo! It HAS been fixed!

Great! I don't think it has ever worked - certainly not for years!

peregrina2000 · Monday at 9:24 PM

Caminante01 said:
and lost my old account.

Hi, Caminante01, Ivar can find your old account with your details. There have been similar situations in the past, and he has always been able to help the forum member find the account.

CWBuff · Monday at 9:33 PM

trecile said:
It looks like you reached the minimum number of posts required to have messaging privileges today.

YOu mean he is a VETERAN now?

dougfitz · Monday at 10:30 PM

peregrina2000 said:
Hi, Caminante01, Ivar can find your old account with your details. There have been similar situations in the past, and he has always been able to help the forum member find the account.

Would that be this one: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/members/caminante.12428/ ?

dougfitz · Monday at 10:45 PM

Caminante01 said:
Anyone knows how to possibly find users? Is there a user list of some sort somewhere?

Yes, there is a Members tab on the menu bar on my laptop, or at the bottom of the menu list (three horizontal parallel line) on my smartphone. That wasn't helpful finding what might be your earlier account. In this case, I used a technique that I use from time to time if I want to find what forum name a deleted member once used. I search for a post that was made by that deleted member, and see if that post has been referred to by another member, when it might have their former forum name in the text. That is generally sufficient for my purposes. In your case, this was simplified by the fact that your earlier forum account was still active, albeit it does not appear to show up when I search using the members page.

Walkerooni · Monday at 11:40 PM

dougfitz said:
In your case, this was simplified by the fact that your earlier forum account was still active, albeit it does not appear to show up when I search using the members page.

I think the OP can find their previous account under pablovergara

dougfitz · 2024-12-03T03:10:48+0100

Walkerooni said:
I think the OP can find their previous account under pablovergara

That's a hidden profile, although I remember the individual from their posts a couple of months ago. I will bow out of the discussion here, and let @ivar or the moderators sort out whatever needs to be done to help this person with their two accounts.

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