Complaint Unable to find how to hide email address for PF account

[symbolipoint]

What? We no longer able to choose to show or hide our email address in our profile on Physicsforums? If can, then where is it? I looked thoroughly but cannot find the option.

 

[jedishrfu]

I typed mine into the search function but nothing came up. I thought all email addresses were not publicly visible hence no need for option to hide them.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What? We no longer able to choose to show or hide our email address in our profile on Physicsforums? If can, then where is it? I looked thoroughly but cannot find the option.

Email addresses are private by default, unless you decide to explicitly type it in your "About". No online forum I know of makes email addresses public.

 

[jack action]

I don't see your email in your profile: https://www.physicsforums.com/members/symbolipoint.58864/#about

 

[symbolipoint]

Email addresses are private by default, unless you decide to explicitly type it in your "About". No online forum I know of makes email addresses public.

That is useful; I thought that we did have the option a few years ago.

 

[symbolipoint]

I don't see your email in your profile: https://www.physicsforums.com/members/symbolipoint.58864/#about

So it is not available as an option. I and we can comfortably live with that.

 

[jtbell]

IIRC the old forum software had an option to allow other users to contact you via email, without actually revealing your email address. I think I remember turning that option off, or leaving it off if it was enabled by default. I haven't found anything like that currently under "MY PF". As far as I can tell, any direct contact between members has to be via the "conversation" (formerly "private message") system.