Allow members to view a Community Directory

It would be really cool to add a Community Directory to the community so that members can easily find one another. We have an Introduce Yourself thread in our community that acts as a decent directory of members who have posted, but it’s not intuitive to search through and you can’t easily find people by certain criteria. I imagine that the directory would be a page that would allow members to filter a full list of users (default sorted alphabetically by username by all visible User Profile Fields. Maybe as a part of the design you could select on the User Profile Fields which fields you would want to allow members to filter by.

Could anyone else benefit from this? We’ve gotten a few requests from community members to be able to easily find others similar to them. I imagine we could fairly easily account for this in our privacy policy to remain transparent.