I get that too - I've always assumed it was an intentional (if frustrating) feature of the board.

ah - i've just discovered a slightly more helpful search facilty by clicking on the magnifying glass next to the 'search' box at the top of the page.

Thanks for the explanation, John. 


Such a thing would be handy. I've tried using the magnifying glass advanced search thingy before now, but you still need to enter a search term as well as the user name, so it's not much good for this purpose.

I think it is worth re-opening the question whether we want the profiles hidden as they are at present (but weren't to begin with).

The paranoia about hackers was proved to be unfounded, and there isn't any very good reason not to have a public profile. Members can choose not to have any private details show, e.g. e-mail addresses and birthdays.

All of that sensitive stuff can be hidden. So ought we to have a poll perhaps as to whether we all feel that it would be nice to be able to click on someone and see who they are and what they've written?

I'd vote yes.