This is something I've thought about more than once, and went far enough as to implement a helper function in SimpleDesk for it.
If you can't see other user profiles (e.g. you're a guest), why show the link? It'd save bandwidth, because it's not adding the variety of links per page, plus it means search engines aren't given links to your user's profiles - which means they don't try access them, which saves you a fairly surprising amount of server load.
The downside is *doing it*. Gut instinct tells me it should done after the member group colour replace operation so that we don't have to stick conditional logic throughout the templates.
If you can't see other user profiles (e.g. you're a guest), why show the link? It'd save bandwidth, because it's not adding the variety of links per page, plus it means search engines aren't given links to your user's profiles - which means they don't try access them, which saves you a fairly surprising amount of server load.
The downside is *doing it*. Gut instinct tells me it should done after the member group colour replace operation so that we don't have to stick conditional logic throughout the templates.
