I've never actually used the K2 User Profiles previously and have run into a bit of an odd issue that is no doubt due to my own ignorance.

If I publish users from a usergroup with the K2 Users module, clicking the link through to their full user profile drops me back to the home page.

Unless I also have an article published and assigned to them - then I can click through to the user.

What am I missing?

Hello Kelsey,

Actually this was introduced in 2.7.0 as a spam blocking mechanism.
Users would register, fill their info with Cyalis and Viagra links, display their page which would hurt your site.

Now a user cannot have a page unless he has posted something.
I can send you the commit that blocked these pages if you are interested.

Ah - thanks Krikor... well it depends...

If I can get an answer on this one: www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/37358-add-dropdown-field-to-k2-user-profile?start=10#154588

Then I'll continue to use user profiles and need that update. Otherwise I'll need to switch to using articles for user pages.

I would opt in for items, you have waaay more control over them.
Think extrafields, galleries videos etc.

You're right. I played around with both and have come to the conclusion that it's easier to muck around with items instead.

Nice to hear that we agree on the issue Kelsey :)

Can you write how to disable this new feature?
Very necessary.

Please, can you write how to disable this new antispam feature?

At file components/com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php

Hello,

Please look at this commit:
github.com/getk2/k2/commit/922a7f403b5c0028250e7ab9831b86c4c93cffbd

thanks alot!

You 're welcome Alexander.

I understand protection, that's fine and good to have, but what if I want to show author's name (for example in Comments module, Latest comments, I want comment authors to be seen there). There's no option as in Top Commenters to disable link to user page and show just name... You (developers) need to go through all possible places where link is created instead of plain unlinked username / name of author if you want to enable author's names but disable links if no items are published by that author.

Therefore, I think it would be best to keep this option, but to make it as parameter in K2 config, so this parameter would enable / disable linkage at global K2 extensions level.

Unitl then, it would be good to add an extra message when user is redirected to homepage why it happened, such as: "This user has no published items and you can not visit his / her profile page."

I presume answer would be "already done" with link to dev version @git as usually is :)
Thank you once again for K2!
Cheers!

Actually you presumed correctly, the global option has been implemented in the DEV version. however I have to check the links on the modules.
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