# Bring back “user location.”

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-user-location/966418
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-user-location/966418 "2022-06-18T04:22:30Z")
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### Author: ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-back-user-location/966418/2 "2022-06-18T04:28:44Z")

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@LSLGuy had a voluntary workaround:

> [@I Locationed - Have you? A thread with a Community Benefit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-locationed-have-you-a-thread-with-a-community-benefit/925454):
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> Hi folks - Just like vBulletin, Discourse has a place for you to enter your location. Which will be displayed if somebody clicks on your avatar. Try mine and look just below the big pink/purple L. Back in vBulletin most of us put something in the location in our profile. Some as a joke, most as legit info. During the conversion to Discourse that info was not transferred. So nearly everybody now has a blank location. And nearly everybody doesn’t know that, and also doesn’t know that they can…

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