I don’t see a problem with both figures being shown, although TBH I don’t take much notice of either..
for those who are worried about privacy..
1] the second number only links you straight into the chatroom. it doesn’t pull up your last chat posts nor allow other users to do this.
2] there is no such thing as privacy on the interweb unless you encrypt stuff and certainly not on public forums and chatrooms. Anyone can lurk in the chatroom and read – and once you have hit “send” what you have put online potentially becomes public knowledge to the whole world. If you are not happy with this being the case then its best not putting this information on any sort of networked computer…