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Wouldnt this be the same as using the existing contact creator plugin and then displaying a list of contacts#?

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Also pretty sure that displaying a list of individual users to exclude will be a massive performance issue on a site with a lot of users. We've seen that before for relatively small lists such as when we tried to display a select list of all folders in the media plugins

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Wouldnt this be the same as using the existing contact creator plugin and then displaying a list of contacts#?

No, I know the contract creator plugin.
And the contract creator plugin workaround is not what we want:

• It duplicates data from the Users table into the Contacts table, which is unnecessary overhead
• It does not keep the Contacts table in sync with the Users table.
• Furthermore we don’t need the contact form functionality of com_contacts, nor all those fixed contact fields.

Instead, we want to create views using the existing data (no duplicates)
and make these views more flexible by making it possible to display the Custom Fields currently already available in Users.

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Also pretty sure that displaying a list of individual users to exclude will be a massive performance issue on a site with a lot of users. We've seen that before for relatively small lists such as when we tried to display a select list of all folders in the media plugins

True!
We could consider a different approach: Instead of displaying a massive list of users, we could add functionality to com_users that allows us to display or hide individual users. And in the new front-end view in com_users we would only display users who aren't set to hidden. That way we could avoid those performance issues.

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Looking at the previous PR (which I never understood why you closed it) I see a reference to an RFC you also created - in that RFC it says it was being taken to the production dept for a decision. joomla/rfc#19 (comment) Was that ever done?

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As for the exclusions I would do this by usergroup not by user. For example on one of my sites I have two parallel usergroups "public members" and "private members"

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