Anonymized users keep their IP address

[bartv (Bart)]

After anonymizing a user, I can still access their IP address in the user admin. I was expecting this information to be scrubbed?

[Falco]

Working as intended, please read the docs

@eviltrout

Discourse will retain the user’s IP addresses in our logs associated with the anonymous user. However, there is a new mechanism to clear those out too available to developers.

When using our UserAnonymizer class, you can pass in an :anonymize_ip option with an IP to replace, for example 0.0.0.0 .

If provided, Discourse will go through several tables in our system and update the IPs associated with the anonymous user to the new value.

If you’d like to enable this feature on your Discourse, we recommend creating a plugin to handle your particular workflow.