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Profile URLs should be case-insensitive #477

@ImLunaHey

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@ImLunaHey

User profile lookups are currently case-sensitive, which makes profile URLs unreliable for sharing and linking. Usernames on most platforms (including Github itself) are case-insensitive, so users reasonably expect the same behavior here.

Steps to reproduce

Visit https://tokscale.ai/u/imlunahey → returns "user not found"
Visit https://tokscale.ai/u/ImLunaHey → loads correctly

Expected behavior

Both URLs should resolve to the same profile, regardless of casing.

Suggested fix

The lookup in packages/frontend/src/app/api/users/[username]/route.ts (around line 31) appears to do an exact-match query on username. Normalizing the input to lowercase before querying — or using a case-insensitive comparison — should resolve this. Depending on how usernames are stored, it may also be worth ensuring stored usernames are normalized on write so the index can still be used efficiently.

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