HRH reported that as a moderator, they could no longer view users’ email addresses, despite no changes made by the admin. HAWK revealed that recent work by techAPJ had hidden SSO external emails from moderators on the admin user page. However, jomaxro pointed out that emails can still be accessed through the user list page (/admin/users/list/active). HRH questioned the reasoning behind this change, and HAWK explained that it’s a mid-process change, with plans to eventually hide emails everywhere except behind a site setting. HRH later confirmed that this change has taken place.
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But my situ is that I, from a moderator account, could view users’ email addresses until about 2 weeks ago. Now I can’t. The admin has not changed anything over this period.
Any obvious reason I’m missing for this to be the case?
@techAPJ did some work last week so that SSO external emails (on the admin user page) are now hidden from moderators.
Hey @HRH, you should still be able to view emails from the user list: /admin/users/list/active. Filter to the user you want and then click “Show Emails”.
Many thanks to you both! This works fine and does the job for me.
Out of curiosity, could I ask why? The usual reasons around personal data, etc.? If it’s still possible to view the emails on the user list o page, then why bother hiding them on the user admin page?
Good question. We’re kinda mid-process here. It’s likely that we’ll hide it everywhere but behind a site setting.
Has this happened now, Hawk? It appears to have…