Hiding profile removes message button from user cards

[Mevo]

@mentalstring

we have some users who are not too happy to have all their account metrics made public (eg: recent reading time, etc)

@michaeld

people are very privacy aware and hide their profiles

Hopefully they don’t discover that you can currently see these metrics through the user list, even if your profile is hidden

Hiding your user profile doesn't hide your stats in the user directory

This topic has been closed a bit too early imho, so here is another one. Mods might merge the threads or something… In our Discourse-based community the discussion about user privacy came up as well, because all the fine-grained details about a users’s behaviour on the site can be checked out in the site’s users overview. This is unexpected for users, who have ticked the proposed “Hide my public profile and presences features” setting. Check it out at this very site: My profile page says, it …

I do agree that the message button appearing when the profile is hidden would be a great improvement