Is there a ‘corporate’ public-facing mode in which all staff emails are shown on User Profiles, but non-staff emails are hidden? If not, is there a reason why this has not been in demand?

No, there aren’t any settings that would expose account email addresses to normal users. A lot of the time in corporate environments they’re integrating with an existing SSO system, so exposing public email addresses, phone numbers, etc is easy to do with custom fields… I imagine that covers most of the demand for this kind of thing. While it doesn’t involve showing an email address, I recall multiple requests to allow normal users to PM staff even when other PMs are disabled, and there’s a defunct plugin that used to enable this: Kinder Guardian - let New members message Staff…

[image] Kris: exposing public email addresses, phone numbers, etc is easy to do with custom fields That’s a good suggestion, thanks!

[image] Kris: While it doesn’t involve showing an email address, I recall multiple requests to allow normal users to PM staff even when other PMs are disabled, and there’s a defunct plugin that used to enable this: Kinder Guardian - let New members message Staff … I think @pfaffman has an updated one here: [image] Allow-pm-to-staff Plugin information_source Summary Allow all users to PM Staff hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff open_book Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features Allow users to send a PM to staff even if they would not otherwise be able to send a PM. Configuration allow_pm_to_staff_enabled–Enables the plugin (default true) allow_pm_allowed_pm_groups–Set groups who can receive PMs from all users (default “staff”). S…

oh excellent! I’ve just closed the old kinder guardian topic and added a link to the new one.

Staff email exposure on User Profiles

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merefield (Robert) April 24, 2023, 4:15pm 3

That’s a good suggestion, thanks!

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