Hello Michael,

There are no options or toggles to remove this, when a member wishes to sort the member directory using this feature it allows them to sort by group. As an added feature you see the total membership count to the right of each group.

I find this feature very disconcerting. Not only should the information who is an administrator be only visible to admins to begin with. But also security groups are sensitive in nature and to expose them to everyone is not appropriate. I can see where you're coming from in a classic community sense, but in a business environment this is a big faux pas! Please talk to the team if the visibility can be controlled going forward.

Absolutely, I will pass on your concerns Michael.

I realize this is an old post, but as a new Community user, just coming across this as an issue as well. Has anything changed in the platform since this initial forum post that will allow us to hide the existence of certain groups to other community members? 

We have a major concern with this in the context of our employee community, and I'm not sure how I haven't noticed this post until now. I completely agree with Michael and Catherine. I spoke with IGLOO to express our concern with this a while ago.

This limits the way I create groups. We have politically sensitive private groups that shouldn't be visible to all members(employees). This prevents me from using groups when it would make managing content access easier and means I have to jump through extra hoops to configure content-specific access control just to 'hide' groups.

I'm hoping short-term this is a simple css update for our employee community. Ideally, it would be great if we could control which groups and spaces are displayed. This would be very useful, but we need to be able to control what is displayed.

Any update on this?

Catherine and Trevor, we did some customizations that hide the groups section. I can dig through the code to find out how it was accomplished.

Interesting, thanks Michael - if you have it, that's great. 

Add this line to your site's CSS theme:

#members #refinement{   display: none; }