# Deprecate "User card badge"?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2017年四月13日 17:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944 "2017-04-13T17:21:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2017年四月13日 17:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/1 "2017-04-13T17:21:34Z")
Can we deprecate this feature?
Between titles, badges, avatar flair and this, I strongly feel like we’ve reached critical mass.
I’d be very happy if we could at least move this into a plugin.
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### Author:  [@nicatronTg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nicatronTg)
#### Post date: [2017年四月14日 07:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/2 "2017-04-14T07:28:44Z")
I’ll pipe in here. I tried twice today to locate this feature and completely glanced over it so many times that I didn’t actually think it existed. It seems _redundant_ to me because there are already tons of ways to express yourself in a user card, and I don’t think these badges add much at all.
I had to dig around here to find it:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-a-user-card-badge/22985](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-a-user-card-badge/22985)
In that topic there’s a lot of confusion as to _how to change the badge_ and similarly [a translator had similar confusion on what the feature actually did](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-card-badge-concept/21484).
I think the fact that they add little value and have proven to be complex, confusing, and non-obvious warrants the removal/deprecation of these. 100%.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017年四月14日 07:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/3 "2017-04-14T07:30:04Z")
Sure, agreed, we can pull these.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年四月14日 11:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/4 "2017-04-14T11:34:46Z")
I recall @eviltrout built this for gearbox, we would have to extract it into a plugin
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### Author:  [@GuidoD](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GuidoD)
#### Post date: [2018年一月1日 01:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/9 "2018-01-01T01:39:15Z")
we are using this user card badge feature in our installation (currently v1.9.0.beta17 +86) but as long as it moved into a plugin and that plugin will be communicated with the new release I am fine.
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [2018年一月4日 23:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/10 "2018-01-04T23:04:21Z")
Where is the plugin? 😅
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2018年一月4日 23:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/11 "2018-01-04T23:16:55Z")
It’s not a plugin _yet_. Still part of core at the moment.
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [2018年一月6日 17:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/12 "2018-01-06T17:16:22Z")
Oh, as in 2.0 it was scheduled to be removed, and there’s a beta for 2.0 I thought it was removed there 😅
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [2018年一月7日 02:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/13 "2018-01-07T02:12:21Z")
They literally just released the first one. There were 17 betas for 1.9.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2018年一月7日 03:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/14 "2018-01-07T03:52:24Z")
Exactly what @notriddle said. In case you’re curious/want more detail:
We release updates to Discourse regularly. In general, you can expect a new beta release every 3 weeks or so, sometimes more frequently. We’re currently working on the 2.0 release, and as you noticed we just released the first 2.0 beta. We will continue to put out beta releases until we’ve completed everything in [the release plan](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-0/73729) (_that plan is tentative and subject to change_).
Once we’ve completed all planned features and are confident we’re as close to bug free as we can get we release a new stable release of the major version. Then we move onto the next release and the process repeats itself.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [2018年四月27日 16:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/16 "2018-04-27T16:47:28Z")
User card badges have been removed for core. The new plugin is **discourse-user-card-badges** :
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-card-badges](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-card-badges)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2018年四月27日 20:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecate-user-card-badge/60944/17 "2018-04-27T20:04:41Z")