Click on the avatar and then click on Message.
Jon, you may see it but I dont …
I can not see this with my account. No “Message” and no “2 posts in topic”
Ugh!
I need to research on the Discourse website…
You should especially since you are not a new user.
New users won’t see the Message button right away. It takes a little time. I need to check this also!
Thanks for your effort
I created a new thread for this.
@anon42188109 can you send other people a DM (someone besides Peter)?
@jon could it be related to Peter’s profile settings?
This user’s public profile is hidden
charles Brown profile is hidden.
Hmm, I must have copied that from Peter 
I don’t don’t even recall how or where to set that
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In Preferences > Notifications
I just unticked the “hide public”. Could you see if the DM thing is available for me?
Charles, I laughed so hard with your reply, I spilled coffee all over the keyboard !!
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I was hoping Paul could check your avatar (after he cleans out the keyboard!)
I created a test account for the IPFire Community and with that account (it is fairly new) I can not see Peter’s profile or DM.
So I think this is Discourse Trust Level related.
I am one of the moderators so that is probably true!
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Here is my test account.
Jon
(changed keyboard) … I can see the red email icon on that user.
Ditto for me as well
for the test account:
CB is hidden
Peter is hidden
Mark is NOT hidden and I can see the red message icon
Paul is not hidden and I can see the red message icon.
Ugh! Does not quite make sense!
I’m back to un-hidden now.