[Bug Report] Mentioning a deleted user ghost results into 404 #8495

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GiteaMirror · 2025-11-02T08:08:40-06:00

GiteaMirror commented

2025-11-02 08:08:40 -06:00

Originally created by @schorsch13 on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022).

Introduction

If you mention a deleted user @ghost who is actually proposed if a ghost user is in your current issue conversation, it creates a link to that non-existent user resulting in a 404 error page.

The name Ghost is also pretty confusing and could be renamed to Deleted User or something.

Proposal

This issue can be resolved either by checking if a mentioned user (even if a username) (still) exists and only link to that profile if it does or by displaying an information like "This user has been deleted" in case of a ghost user.

Credits

This bug was discovered my the codeberg user fnetX. For further information have a look at the issue on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/361

Originally created by @schorsch13 on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022). # Introduction If you mention a deleted user @ghost who is actually proposed if a ghost user is in your current issue conversation, it creates a link to that non-existent user resulting in a 404 error page. The name `Ghost` is also pretty confusing and could be renamed to `Deleted User` or something. # Proposal This issue can be resolved either by checking if a mentioned user (even if a username) (still) exists and only link to that profile if it does or by displaying an information like "This user has been deleted" in case of a ghost user. # Credits This bug was discovered my the codeberg user [fnetX](https://codeberg.org/fnetX). For further information have a look at the issue on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/361

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@fnetX commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022):

I assigned myself to the downstream issue as I planned to add a "This user is a ghost" page to Gitea, it's about position 4 on my backlog :)

If someone decides to rather implement the user checking to avoid links to /ghost, I'm happy about that, too, but I won't find time for that solution.

@fnetX commented on GitHub (Feb 4, 2022): I assigned myself to the downstream issue as I planned to add a "This user is a ghost" page to Gitea, it's about position 4 on my backlog :) If someone decides to rather implement the user checking to avoid links to /ghost, I'm happy about that, too, but I won't find time for that solution.

GiteaMirror commented

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@yardenshoham commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2022):

Fixed by #21554?

@yardenshoham commented on GitHub (Nov 15, 2022): Fixed by #21554?

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Reference: github-starred/gitea#8495