# User directory feedback
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 19, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550 "2015-03-19T21:38:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/1 "2015-03-19T21:38:46Z")
For the longest time, there was no way to see a directory of users on a given Discourse site\*. But thanks to @eviltrout, now there is!
Goals:
1. This is by no means a primary page for Discourse, it’s more of a nice to have. So we don’t have to agonize over getting it just right.
2. Show who’s most active on the site (kind of a low-intensity “leaderboard”), your core users.
3. A basic directory of people who exist on that Discourse
Check it out at
[https://meta.discourse.org/u](https://meta.discourse.org/u)
Feedback welcome. Are we showing the right data here? Does it make sense? How could we make it clearer, or better?
\* other than search, sort of, but that assumes you already know the username of the user you want to find..
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### Author:  [@NomNuggetNom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NomNuggetNom)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/2 "2015-03-19T22:04:16Z")
Looks awesome! I think it would be nice if your name appeared in the actual list in addition to it displaying at the top. Other than that, I can’t think of anything. It’s exactly what it needs to be 👍.
EDIT: I take it back! I thought of something. How about filtering by group or badge?
EDIT 2: Any reason you can’t sort by time read?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/3 "2015-03-19T22:05:29Z")
This is very interesting… having our own record at the top is nice, but it makes it hard to see in-context. Any way to have an option? if not I’d prefer it in-line.
Other information which would be neat to see would be an rank column (1,2,3,4,5 etc) or a percentile
Nice Job @eviltrout
Oh, and maybe a column of @ mentions?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/4 "2015-03-20T00:34:36Z")
I moved 10 posts to a new topic: [Is it a security violation to show a directory of users?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-a-security-violation-to-show-a-directory-of-users/26557)
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### Author:  [@dbm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dbm)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/7 "2015-03-19T22:49:35Z")
I wouldn’t touch nothing.. it looks clear enough right now! 🙂
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/9 "2015-03-19T23:21:35Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/users)
love ❤ love 💗 love 💓
So exciting. Thank you @eviltrout!!!
> [@NomNuggetNom](#):
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> filtering by group or badge
+1 on filtering by badge and by group. This would be very useful.
Would also very much like to be able to search by location and bio, and perhaps even by custom field.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/10 "2015-03-19T23:48:11Z")
Two more thoughts:
- no browser window title for the directory? I expect the title to be “User Directory - Discourse Meta” like Badges
- I’d prefer “Directory” to “User Directory” to steer clear of the “User” terminology.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/11 "2015-03-19T23:50:36Z")
Personally I prefer a simple title of “Users” no need to add that directory word in anywhere. Missing title is a good catch.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/12 "2015-03-19T23:58:28Z")
Definitely a great development.
> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> This is very interesting… having our own record at the top is nice, but it makes it hard to see in-context. Any way to have an option? if not I’d prefer it in-line.
Agree on this one … I was trying really hard to sort to see where I fell, but it was rather painful to do.
> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> I would imagine an admin option to hide or protect it with group permissions would be an expected feature.
Definitely agree. Since the list is just numbers, it _might_ cause some unnecessary guilt in our community because it clearly emphasizes quantity over quality. (Yes, even quantity of likes is a “quantity” thing.) It’s not about privacy, it’s about focus.
> [@sam](#):
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> Personally I prefer a simple title of “Users”
Agree on this one too.
👍
It would be **really great** if admins could specify columns here (like location, or a custom field).
Also, a badge count (that links to the user’s badge page) would be great.
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/13 "2015-03-20T00:05:44Z")
> [@downey](#):
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> It would be really great if admins could specify columns here (like location, or a custom field).
Or select a different column to sort by by default…
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/14 "2015-03-20T00:49:50Z")
I really like it - it surfaces numbers which my forum users should find helpful.
Reported a bug with dark colors:
> [@User Directory Feedback - dark theme colors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback-dark-theme-colors/26558):
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> User directory needs a couple of tweaks for dark themes. Note table numbers are unreadable and user count: After a couple of tweaks (some specific to my theme): Quick work-around for dark themes: .directory table td .number, .directory table td .time-read, .directory table th .number, .directory table th .time-read, .directory .total-rows { color:white; }
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### Author:  [@badevguru](https://meta.discourse.org/u/badevguru)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/15 "2015-03-20T00:58:55Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/users)
Does it filter out trust\_0 level users? If not I do propose that by default you have to be trust\_1 to be viewed in the directory.
I have those spammers that create clever names that I don’t want to give the satisfaction of a google indexing to
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/16 "2015-03-20T01:03:20Z")
> [@badevguru](#):
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> I have those spammers that create clever names that I don’t want to give the satisfaction of a google indexing to
They can try and be clever - but this is what Google sees (or similar) for the User Directory:
User profiles are also not indexed.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/17 "2015-03-20T01:04:49Z")
> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> User profiles are also not indexed.
Unless they are linked to elsewhere?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/18 "2015-03-20T01:06:04Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> Unless they are linked to elsewhere?
They are still not indexed - check `robots.txt`:
[https://meta.discourse.org/robots.txt](https://meta.discourse.org/robots.txt)
Note line:
`Disallow: /users/`
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/19 "2015-03-20T01:34:22Z")
I am on board with that, though for our site they’d be called members.
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### Author:  [@kensims](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kensims)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/20 "2015-03-20T03:19:06Z")
I agree with idea of a minimum trust level (preferably configurable) to be included.
Additional things to consider showing: trust level name, time as a registered user; with the latter being sortable.
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/21 "2015-03-20T14:06:45Z")
Will this page be extensible so we can add in information from plugins, etc?
Absolutely love the page and it clears out one thing we were going to try to figure out how to do. Thank you! 👍
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/22 "2015-03-20T14:09:40Z")
I suppose it’s still early, but it goes without saying that the mobile CSS needs work. 🙂
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### Author:  [@mbs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbs)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-feedback/26550/23 "2015-03-20T14:16:33Z")
Seems just perfect. Nice feature.
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