**Improve athlete/user search in Groups (and coach/follower search)**

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Improve athlete/user search in Groups (and coach/follower search)

Hi guys!

The current name-based search when adding members to a Group — or when searching for a coach or someone to follow — is unreliable and limited. Specific issues:

  1. Search by name frequently returns no results, even for users with public/non-hidden profiles. For example, my own account (Seba Planes) does not appear in search results, nor do users I already follow. Other people struggle to find me.
  2. No support for searching by Intervals.icu athlete ID (e.g. i218573). This would be the most unambiguous way to find a specific person :slight_smile:
  3. No support for searching by email address. This is a common and reliable identifier used by similar platforms.

The same problems affect:

  • Adding members to a Group
  • Searching for a coach to add via the Athletes page
  • Searching for athletes to follow

Suggested improvements:

  • Allow search by Intervals.icu athlete ID
  • Allow search by email address (with appropriate privacy handling — e.g. only show a match if the target user’s profile is not hidden)
  • Fix name-based search reliability so that users with non-hidden profiles consistently appear

This is a significant friction point for onboarding athletes into groups and for coach-athlete connections in general. Happy to provide specific reproduction steps if helpful!

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