[Bug] Pictique: user search fails when query is shorter than 2 characters

[krivtsova-arina]

Description

When a user enters only one character in the search field, the API returns the error:

{"error":"Search query must be at least 2 characters long"}
In the UI, this error isn't clearly explained, which may confuse users and make it look like search is broken.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the search page in Pictique (or try to search people when creating group)
2. Enter a single character into the search field.

Curl example:

curl 'https://pictique.w3ds.metastate.foundation/api/users/search?q=a' \ -H 'Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*' \ -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,ru;q=0.8' \ -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \ -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \ -H 'Pragma: no-cache' \ -H 'Referer: https://pictique.w3ds.metastate.foundation/discover' \ -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' \ -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' \ -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' \ -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \ -H 'authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1c2VySWQiOiJlODgyMTFjZS05OGYzLTRhN2MtYjY0My03OTcwMDk5OTI4MDkiLCJpYXQiOjE3Njg1Njk4ODEsImV4cCI6MTc2OTE3NDY4MX0.syCAiqhg0qI7aFIymXEpcuYsllem4HP2fgmZ9Iw2yQM' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="143", "Chromium";v="143", "Not A(Brand";v="24"' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0' \ -H 'sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"'

Expected behavior

User can search by 1 and more char

Supporting Media

Desktop:

• Device: any
• OS: any
• Browser: any