# Hiding profile removes message button from user cards

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-profile-removes-message-button-from-user-cards/140790>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** completed, user-card\
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-profile-removes-message-button-from-user-cards/140790 "2020-02-05T22:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![mentalstring](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mentalstring/32/168934_2.png) [@mentalstring](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mentalstring)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hiding-profile-removes-message-button-from-user-cards/140790/5 "2020-02-16T09:30:53Z")

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An example use case: we have some users who are not too happy to have all their account metrics made public (eg: recent reading time, etc) — they feel this is a privacy issue in Discourse that discourages their use of the forum. They would however be happy with the solution of using the `Hide my public profile and presence features` setting, except it makes it harder for them to be messaged — something they would like to not change. The user card is the easiest way for that and not everyone will figure out the other ways to do it.

I can’t think of a reason why this setting is hiding also the message button from the User card since that depends on a separate setting — it seems that the message button may have been forgotten at some point. Would this be better under `bug` instead of `ux`?

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