# Using user cards to quickly view information about others
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093
**Category:** Using Discourse
**Tags:** explanation, user-card, interface
**Created:** [5월 12, 2016, 12:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093 "2016-05-12T00:40:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Discourse)
#### Post date: [5월 12, 2016, 12:40오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/1 "2016-05-12T00:40:37Z")
> 🔖 This guide explains what user cards are, how they work, and what information they display in Discourse.
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> 🙋 Required user level: All users
User cards in Discourse provide a quick and convenient way to view essential information about other users without navigating to their full profile page. This feature enhances user interaction and allows for easy personalization.
## What are user cards?
User cards are pop-up windows that appear when you click on a user’s avatar or username in various places within Discourse, such as:
- Inside a topic
- On topic listing pages (e.g. Latest)
- On user mentions (e.g. @Discourse)
## Information displayed on user cards
User cards show an overview of a user’s profile information, including:
- Avatar
- Username, name, and title
- User status (if set and enabled)
- “About me” description (first three lines if lengthy)
- Featured topic (if set)
- Website (if set)
- Location (if set)
- Local time (if the `display local time in user card` site setting is enabled)
- Last post date and join date
- Read time and recent read time (in total, and within the last 60 days)
- Custom user fields (if configured to show on user card)
- Trust level badge and two top (or favorite) badges
- User card background (if set)
Depending on the plugins your community has enabled, you may also see:
- Your amount of cheers ([Discourse Gamification](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gamification/225916))
- A count of your solutions ([Discourse Solved](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved/30155))
## Additional features
User cards offer more than just information display and have several other interactive options as well:
1. **Profile access** : Clicking the avatar or username on a user card takes you to the user’s full profile.
2. **Message** : A convenient way to contact the person via personal message.
3. **Chat** : Quick access to start a personal chat. (requires [Discourse Chat](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881))
4. **Post filtering** : For users with multiple posts in a topic, a filter button with their post count appears. Clicking this filters the topic to show only that user’s posts.
> 🤓 For anyone interested in the underlying magic of this feature, it appends `?username_filters=USERNAME` to the end of the topic URL to achieve the filtered view
1. **Follow** : Add the user to your Following list and be notified when they post (requires [Discourse Follow](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-follow/110579))
2. **Suspension indicator** : User cards can also indicate if a user has been suspended (this can be hidden per site via the `hide suspension reasons` setting):
1. **Silencing indicator** : Similarly, user cards will show if a user has been silenced, displaying the reason and duration. This can be hidden per site via the `hide silencing reasons` setting.
## Adding favorite badges
To select the two badges that appear next to your Trust Level badge on the user card, navigate to your badges page and select up to two badges using the star icon in the lower right corner:
## Hiding your user card
If you prefer not to have your user card visible to others:
1. Go to your user Preferences/Profile page
2. Enable the “Hide my public profile” option.
This setting will hide the profile details from your user card (as well as your user profile and badges page).
## Additional resources
- [Customize User Cards](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-whether-and-how-user-cards-are-displayed/239819)
> Last edited by @Lilly 2024-11-22T04:17:34Z
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> Last checked by @hugh 2024-07-02T06:22:58Z
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> > **Check document**
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> > Perform check on document:
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [11월 21, 2024, 11:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/9 "2024-11-21T23:43:13Z")
> [@Discourse](#):
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> ‘기타’ 섹션에서 “공개 프로필 및 접속 상태 기능 숨기기” 옵션을 활성화하세요.
지금은 다음과 같다고 생각합니다.
> ‘기타’ 섹션에서 “공개 프로필 숨기기” 옵션을 활성화하세요.
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### Author:  [@bob\_the\_tomato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bob_the_tomato)
#### Post date: [11월 22, 2024, 2:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/10 "2024-11-22T14:31:26Z")
간단한 질문 하나만 드릴게요:
왜 다른 사람의 사용자 카드에서 해당 사용자가 **무음 처리** 되어 있는지 확인할 수 없는 걸까요? 아니면 제가 이 주제에서 무언가를 놓치고 있는 건가요?
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [11월 22, 2024, 11:43오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/11 "2024-11-22T23:43:36Z")
기억이 맞다면 그렇다고 하는데, 내가 틀렸을 수도 있어.
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2024, 12:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/12 "2024-11-23T00:43:28Z")
사용자 카드에는我记得로 배제(suspension)만 표시되는 것 같습니다.
침묵(silence)은 아예 공개적으로 표시되지 않는지, 기억이 나지 않습니다.
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### Author:  [@bob\_the\_tomato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bob_the_tomato)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2024, 1:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/13 "2024-11-23T01:29:56Z")
그렇게 생각하지 않는데, 내가 토픽을 부밍(bumping)해서 무음 처리(silenced)되었을 때 그걸 표시하는 것을 본 적이 없었거든요. 다만 확실치는 않습니다.
> [@NateDhaliwal](#):
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> 기억이 정확하지는 않지만, 그렇게 표시되는 것 같기도 하고, 내가 틀렸을 수도 있습니다.
> [@Firepup650](#):
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> 무음 처리가 공개적으로 표시되는지조차 확실하지 않네요. 기억이 나지 않습니다.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2024, 3:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/14 "2024-11-23T03:08:29Z")
이것은 사이트 설정에 따라 달라질 것 같습니다(최소 정지 기능에는 해당 설정이 하나 있습니다).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [8월 7, 2025, 1:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-user-cards-to-quickly-view-information-about-others/44093/15 "2025-08-07T13:51:41Z")
> [@Discourse](#):
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> ## 사용자 카드 숨기기
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> 다른 사용자에게 사용자 카드를 표시하고 싶지 않다면:
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> 1. 사용자 설정/인터페이스 페이지로 이동합니다.
> 2. ‘기타’ 섹션에서 ‘내 공개 프로필 숨기기’ 옵션을 활성화합니다.
이 항목은 설정/프로필의 맨 위로 이동되었습니다.
> [@Discourse](#):
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> **정지 표시기** : 사용자 카드에는 사용자가 정지되었는지를 나타내는 표시도 포함될 수 있습니다(사이트별로 비활성화 가능):
최근 추가된 침묵 표시기도 여기에 추가될 수 있습니다.