Appearance profile setting

Hi, Josh!

Thanks for the kind words about 3.0, and for the detailed report.

I checked this on 3.0.3 and the switch itself is working: with Appearance → Interface elements → My profile in the user menu off, the “My profile” row is gone from the menu that opens when you click your avatar at the bottom of the conversation list.

I think we may be talking about two different things, though. That setting only removes the My profile row inside that popup menu. It does not remove the avatar and username strip itself, which is the thing sitting in the lower left next to the settings cog. From your description — that it duplicates a floating menu already showing your username and avatar — I suspect the strip is what you want gone, and there is no switch for that yet. I can add one.

Could you confirm with a screenshot of the corner in question? If the “My profile” row really is still listed in the popup after saving, the most likely cause is page caching. Better Messages prints its settings into the page HTML, so a cached page keeps the old values until the cache is purged. Clearing your caching plugin’s cache and doing a hard reload should settle it.

Thanks!

You were right and I was wrong about it being a separate thing — thank you for pushing back with the screenshot.

In 2.0 that strip was drawn only when the menu behind it had something in it. The menu can hold three things — the points balance, My profile and the user statuses — and with all three off the whole avatar and name block was not rendered at all, leaving just the settings button. On your site there is no WebSocket, so no user statuses, and no points, which means switching My profile off in 2.0 removed exactly what you circled. 3.0 kept the strip on screen and only stopped it responding to clicks. That was a regression, not a setting you were missing.

3.0.6 gives it a switch of its own: Appearance → Layout → Interface elements → Account row. Turn it off and the strip goes, in the conversation list, in the collapsed rail and in the mini widget, with the settings button left behind exactly as 2.0 did it.

One thing to know: while that menu still has something in it the switch tells you so instead of applying, and the row shows a short note. That is deliberate rather than a bug — the strip is the only way into the menu, so hiding it while the statuses live there would leave members no way to set their status. With My profile already off on your site the switch will bite straight away.