Hidden profiles in Forum

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When participating to Forum activities such as RR I often want to check the profile of a member to send an appropriate card. I hit onto “This user’s public profile is hidden.” once in a while and it makes me wonder what the purpose of it is, and how to unhide the profile, as they are participant to the same activity as me and I want to do them a favour.

I know that I can find a profile of the individual via Explore - Search - Username to get a profile which I thought so far was the public one. Confusion all around

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I dont want others to know when my last log in time :smile:

You cant unhide their profile, only them can unhide it

You dont have to do that. Just click postcrossing logo next to their username
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I also have issues with it too when I want to tag them but I cannot tell which country they are from.

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Sure, but that’s the Postcrossing profile.

I have separate profiles for official Postcrossing and Forum RR’s, because I don’t want to make the official one sound too demanding with links to collections and Flickr favourites etc. I’m actually surprised not more people have that :thinking:

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I saw some members wrote something like this below their postcrossing profile:

FOR FORUM MEMBER ONLY
If you tag me or in the same RR with me… bla bla bla… bla bla bla…
This is link to my collection… xxxxx…xxxx…xxx

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It can also be they just forgot to unhide it, if they kept it hidden when not taking part in tags?
(I don’t take part, and have it hidden, and still I think last week someone tagged me…some think you can tag just anyone, apparently.)
Or they don’t have any more information to tell, than it is in their profile already.