Explore Profiles: how the member directory is built and sorted

How do I browse members rather than search for one by name?

Open uni.xyz/profile/explore. It is a directory you can sort and page through, which is the thing site search cannot do: search finds a person you can already name, and Explore is for finding people you cannot.

Browsing lists ranked members only

The directory shows members who have passed the same threshold that earns a rank badge, 20 base points. Anyone below it is absent from every sort, not because they are hidden but because there is nothing to order them by. Staff accounts are left out as well.

Searching from that page drops the condition. A member with no rank can be found by name even though they will never appear while you browse, so an empty browse result and an empty search result mean different things.

The six sorts

Trending, Highest Score, Most Followed, Most Projects, Newest and Most Awards.

Trending is movement, not growth. It ranks members by the distance between their highest and their lowest profile score over the last twelve months. A score that fell a long way ranks alongside one that rose the same distance, so read the tab as recently changing rather than rising.

The other five say what they do, and all of them read the same figures shown on a member's own profile. See What the rank badge means for where a score comes from.

Signed out, you get one page

An anonymous visitor sees the first 24 profiles. Asking for more shows "Sign in to discover more profiles" instead of loading them. Sign in and the list pages normally, 24 at a time.

It sorts, it does not filter

There is no filter by place, skill, profession or language on this page. Category shortcuts exist for jurors, verified members and award winners, and beyond those the only way to narrow the list is the sort you pick. To find people by skill or city, use search instead: How to find and search for other members.

If your own profile is not there

Check your base score. Below 20 base points you carry no rank and do not appear while anyone browses, though you are still findable by name and your profile page works normally.

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