Hello,I hope you’re doing well! I would like to know if there is a component or setting available that allows users to hide themselves from appearing on the /u page (user directory). I would greatly appreciate any advice or guidance on how to achieve this.
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The discussion revolves around hiding a user’s profile from the /u page (user directory) in Discourse. copymonopoly asks how to achieve this, and Heliosurge suggests going to preferences > interface and selecting “hide my public profile.” However, copymonopoly reports that this doesn’t work, as their profile remains visible even after logging out. bloomexperiment confirms that hiding the profile doesn’t remove the user from the directory. Heliosurge notes this may be a bug, referencing a related feature request. Moin clarifies that another topic addresses online status, not directory visibility, and links to a relevant feature request. Lilly shares a related meta-discourse thread. Heliosurge concludes that a plugin might be needed to fully hide a user from the directory. copymonopoly resolves the issue by disabling the user directory and using the leaderboard as a replacement, which allows hiding groups.
Actually, it doesn’t work. Even after logging out, I can still see myself.
Not sure then. Think this might be part of Don:s feature request)bug topic.
That topic is about hiding that you are currently online.
I think the relevant topic in this case is this feature request:
Sounds like we need a plugin to fix this. As a user should be able to have their profile hidden from the user directory. I agree it should maybe still show in things like topic stats. However they should have an option to not be directly shown in the user directory.
I have resolved the issue by disabling the user directory feature and using the leaderboard as a replacement. The leaderboard allows me to hide groups.