I thought I just did it a few minutes ago. I'll check again.

Edit: It's in my page when I'm logged in - but one can not see it (yet) from the outside. I wonder if I do something wrong or hacker news uses some kind of caching.

Anyway: It is matthias dot goergens at gmail etc

The 'email' field in the profile is not visible to others (only seen by yc admin). 'About' is visible though.

I didn't realize this for 6 months until I read a similar conversation someone else about seeing an email address.

I did not figure this out, yet. Thank you.

Not your fault at all. Confusing UI.

I have seen confusion with this aspect of account configuration numerous times. Perhaps simply adding a note next to the email field indicating that the email address is only visible to the administrators would help solve this problem.

edit: perhaps you could vote up and/or comment on rms' suggestion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100

Yes. I even searched for a check box like: "Make my email visible to the public".

At this point, considering how many people have been confused by that form, it's PG's fault for not fixing it.

Perhaps it is for building social capital - accustome users to help each other.

Just like in a related way - but with a different morale - SMS seems from one point of view an inferior user interface. But people use it anyway instead of calling.

Anyway - I suspect he just has not come around to fixing it.