Bug Report - New User - View Thread Error

Question

Recently created geocaching.com users are prevented from reading or posting on project-gc.com forum threads. The site fails to load content and returns an error.

Requirements:

1. New user created on geocaching.com (example)
2. New user created on project-gc.com (example, user ID 49692466)
3. Ensure user does not have any activity logged (unclear if this is required)
4. Visit a forum thread (example)

Result: 

Question2Answer fatal error:
Reading one assoc from empty results

Stack trace:
require() in index.php:27
require() in qa-index.php:188
qa_page_queue_pending() in qa-page.php:38
qa_get_logged_in_userid() in page.php:42
qa_get_logged_in_user_field() in users.php:111
qa_get_logged_in_user_cache() in users.php:100
qa_get_logged_in_user() in users.php:80
qa_db_read_one_assoc() in qa-external-users.php:222

Answer 1

This has actually been intentional. For some reason it was required that the user had at least 10 page views on Project-GC before accessing the forum.

1. I don't agree that it is a good design.
2. There was no error handling and no proper user feedback. Which is bad.
3. I removed that requirement.