There has been an option to not show certain stores/shops you have on your public profile. For whatever personal reasons some creators want to opt out of certain niche stores showing up alongside their other stores. This option hasn’t changed, HOWEVER, now the new dropdown that pops up when you click on a store name from a product (kind of annoying because now it requires two clicks instead of one) shows not only the creator profile, but also the follower count which I thought we had hidden from public display.
If a store is opted out of being shown on our profile, doesn’t it defeat the purpose to then turn around and show our profile on the store?! Sometimes a creator doesn’t want a certain niche to be associated with them (be it for political reasons or if it’s something more adult, or maybe cannabis or something related) and so we opt out of having it shown on our profile alongside our other stores. But now it can still be linked to us.
This seems like an oversight in this new design feature (also the dropdown seems very cumbersome. When you click on the store link now you have to click again to actually get to the store… I dont get that. Why would we make it harder?)