Is there any possibility, that only Members can view the personal Profiles?

[purldator (mountain)]

Hey there. I am posting to see if there’s any sort of thought given by the developers to add this feature to core since my last post above.

I have explained elsewhere how private profiles can allow admins to have a sort of ‘in between’ private-public state that gives more flexibility for visitors to interact and sign up, but allow users and staff to allow visitors to ‘prove’ themselves this way to let them in on restricted categories.

Is it a security violation to show a directory of users?

That is what I have been meaning to speak about in regards to private profiles. Either I have to completely shut off my community (private) or have restricted categories, BUT ergo, Discourse considers the latter set up ‘public’ and thus other items (such as profiles, user activity listed elsewhere or not confusing things) are still technically ‘public’ and now open for every visitor or random passerby to gawk at. At least with SMF I could fine-tune those things so I could have some in-between…

I tried asking around for a developer who can code me a plugin for this but it went way over budget (of course no fault to them).

I feel this feature would help a mass plethora of instances other than my own.

cc: @codinghorror @sam