# User directory only viewable when logged in

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed, user-directory
**Created:** [October 18, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641 "2015-10-18T00:13:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![raw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/raw/32/44220_2.png) [@raw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/raw)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/1 "2015-10-18T00:13:42Z")

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I like the user directory page a lot. I don’t particularly like that anyone can pull a list of all of the users, although I appreciate the bot-blocking. In addition to the setting to enable the user directory, I would like to request a setting to have that page only visible to logged-in users. The option of minimum trust-level to see the directory list would be frosting.

Keep up the great work guys…discourse is really beautiful.

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/2 "2015-10-18T03:30:13Z")

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Though it’s more of a “leaderboard” than a “directory” 😉

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### Author: ![raw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/raw/32/44220_2.png) [@raw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/raw)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/3 "2015-10-18T03:34:16Z")

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> _a leaderboard by any other name would still provide the handles and full names of all users to anyone browsing the site_

- “Juliet’s Discourse”  
🌹 🌹 🌹

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/4 "2015-10-18T04:31:24Z")

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A couple things like this have been requested a fair number of times:

- only allow user profiles to be viewed by logged in users
- only allow the user directory to be viewed by logged in users

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/5 "2023-04-14T11:06:52Z")

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This was made possible using the `hide user profiles from public` admin setting: 👍

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/8/7/887c348cf54cb0a2a5d14fff698d30ddd81241cf.png)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2023, 11:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-directory-only-viewable-when-logged-in/34641/6 "2023-04-14T11:06:56Z")

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