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Could you add an e-mail address to your profile?
by pius 19y ago
Could you add an e-mail address to your profile?
- eru 19y agoI thought I just did it a few minutes ago. I'll check again. Edit: It's in my page when I'm logged in - but one can not see it (yet) from the outside. I wonder if I do something wrong or hacker news uses some kind of caching. Anyway: It is matthias dot goergens at gmail etc
- kirubakaran 19y agoThe 'email' field in the profile is not visible to others (only seen by yc admin). 'About' is visible though.
- eru 19y agoI did not figure this out, yet. Thank you.
- kirubakaran 19y agoNot your fault at all. Confusing UI.
- ecommercematt 19y agoI have seen confusion with this aspect of account configuration numerous times. Perhaps simply adding a note next to the email field indicating that the email address is only visible to the administrators would help solve this problem. edit: perhaps you could vote up and/or comment on rms' suggestion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100
- eru 19y agoYes. I even searched for a check box like: "Make my email visible to the public".
- dcurtis 19y agoAt this point, considering how many people have been confused by that form, it's PG's fault for not fixing it.
- eru 19y agoPerhaps it is for building social capital - accustome users to help each other. Just like in a related way - but with a different morale - SMS seems from one point of view an inferior user interface. But people use it anyway instead of calling. Anyway - I suspect he just has not come around to fixing it.
- pchristensen 19y agoI didn't realize this for 6 months until I read a similar conversation someone else about seeing an email address.