Profile contribution timeline displays empty years (2008-2024) with 0 commits

[codalexic]

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Bug

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Profile

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Hi, my GitHub profile contribution timeline is displaying empty year tabs (2008–2024) on the sidebar where I have 0 commits.

I checked via the GitHub Search API (/search/commits?q=author:codalexic+author-date:2008-01-01..2024-12-31) and confirmed total_count: 0. I have also added a secondary email and pushed new commits to trigger a rebuild, but the stale UI cache persists.

Could someone please trigger a contribution graph cache rebuild for user codalexic?

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[iawaisahmd]

if the account itself was created recently, seeing years from 2008–2024 would strongly suggest a profile timeline/display issue rather than real contribution history. since the api also returns zero commits for those years, pushing additional commits likely won't fix it. i'd include the account creation date and a screenshot of the year sidebar in the report so github can distinguish this from email attribution issues and investigate the profile cache directly.