# Hide login status **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [October 14, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490 "2015-10-14T09:35:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![JSey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jsey/32/3540_2.png) [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey) #### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490/6 "2015-10-14T19:10:38Z")
Hi Matthias, I struggled with the same problem - our user base settled with the following: I wrote a plugin that hides the online status on public pages. It removes that info rather than hiding it via CSS, but that solution is global, and no per-user setting. With that plugin, when you have an account and log in, you can get the information anyway. See this topic: > [@More-privacy: hide parts of user profiles](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-privacy-hide-parts-of-user-profiles/33244): > > Continuing the discussion from [Restrict public viewing of user profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restrict-public-viewing-of-user-profile/21098/23): I have just released the very first version of a plugin that tries to accomplish what users from my community want: make the user profiles look like this: when viewed from the anonymous account, and like this: after logging in. Settings are currently limited to this: Note that currently, user cards are not yet altered (which is clearly missing because otherwise, this plugin is a bit pointle… …if one day we get this one (this is what @Mittineague was [referring to](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490/2)): [https://meta.discourse.org/t/presence-features-for-forums/12](https://meta.discourse.org/t/presence-features-for-forums/12) …then I guess the urge to hide your presence will get more prominent, too… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-login-status/34490)._