Cannot find my friend in ZwiftPower Search

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Why can’t I find my friend “Gary Plea****” when searching Riders in Zwiftpower.com? I go to Events, see the Riders tab, click on it, the enter his name in the Search box. I see many other Gary’s but not him.

I CAN only locate him by clicking on the results of an event he attended then clicking on him there, and can see his profile that way. I can also find him by searching his Team name and locating him there.

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Now that rider search tab is back up, I noticed that the problem the OP mentioned still seems to be an issue. Anyone else noticed this?

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Hi,
In Zwiftpower/friends, there are 2 major columns. “Following” and “Followers you are not following”
These lists are totally messed up.

  1. In “Following”, I don’t see all ppl I follow.
  2. In “Followers you are not following” I see a huge number of ppl I do follow but they are listed in “not followed”.
  3. For many of my friends, who I follow and also follows me, I cannot find them in either list

is this a known bug? Would be VERY good if this was fixed so I can find friends as I assume is intended. Else I have no idea why the “friends” page exist

thanks

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There has been some chatter about it recently

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Is there any update on this? I’ve tried on several occasions to find people using the search box, always without success.

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Are you searching for friends you are following?
Are you searching for people in general?
Are you sure these people you are searching for are registered on ZwiftPower?

There are a few search options in ZwiftPower and some work better than others.

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I’m searching for people in general. People from youtube videos, facebook posts, that kind of thing

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The Riders search doesn’t always bring up everyone even when you know they are registered with ZwiftPower.

The Rankings search nearly always finds them but you have to be able to narrow the search down to 1000 riders through using country, category etc.

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If the people you’re looking for enter races, the search function on zwiftracing.app can often find them even if the search on zwiftpower.com does not, and it will provide a link to the zwiftpower profile. You can also mark “favorite” riders on zwiftracing.app.

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Thanks for the tips. I’ll play around with it some more.

It does seem surprising that something as basic as searching for a name in a database is not implemented. I guess it’s on a to-do list somewhere.

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Searching on ZwiftPower sort of works, I just occasionally run into names that return no results even though it would be an exact match for the search term.

The to-do list for ZwiftPower is turning it off so there’s not much investment in it these days.

EDIT: I just realized you might have also been trying while they were working on the DB

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I have had the same experience a few times, so it’s not caused by the maintenance. If they’re going to shut it down then, as you point out, it’s not worth investing time in it.