Let users make their profiles public

I would also be interested in this (although in my case for Drupal 5.x).

http://www.google.com/search?q=user%2Bprofile%2Bprivate+site%3Adrupal.or...

Thanks for getting back to us, earnie. However, I am not sure if what you suggested really helps. Your google search links to various modules, but none of them are doing what was suggested. Profile Privacy allows to make certain fields public or private, but not the whole profile. Profile Tabs does something similar, but with tabs. User Profile Node Integrator only works for Drupal 4.x and needs the Node Profile module.

What I would want is a setting that allows a user to decide whether their whole profile can be viewed by others or not; and by profile I mean profiles created through the core profile module. If it is set to "no", links to that users profile (for instance author names in nodes) should not be clickable, the user should not show up in searches etc. I cannot see any module or configuration that achieves that - but then it may be hiding somewhere? It would be great if there was something like that!

Sorry, I thought Profile Privacy would work for you.

I don't find an alternative. You can research http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/ by searching for profile on the page with your browser search in page function. If you don't find anything then using a hook_form_alter in a custom module is your only other choice.

Good luck.

There does not seem to be a module that does what we need - so we may have to develop our own. Thank you very much for looking into it!

You're welcome.