# Split profile hiding and presence

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-profile-hiding-and-presence/184316>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** whos-online, chat, completed\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-profile-hiding-and-presence/184316 "2021-03-24T11:15:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-profile-hiding-and-presence/184316/1 "2021-03-24T11:15:12Z")

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> [@Discourse Who's Online](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-whos-online/52345/1):
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> Users which have enabled the “hide profile and presence” setting will not be displayed

Whilst this isn’t directly related to this plugin, the availability of this plugin raises the following:

You know it would be nice if these were two separate settings?

Plenty of users might want to expose their profile whilst not appearing to be present?

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