I have run a few forums in my day and I have been on a few that i did not run. But this is the first forum I have seen that does not have a members page. It is a listing of all the members on the forum. People can browse thru this list to see others in their area and then send a PM if they wanted to. etc etc...
There are also member statistics in this area, like top posters, highest average posts per day, etc etc...
I have browsed this site and I have found the area but I get an error when trying to view it. The forum Admin has chosen for normal users not to be able to view this area. I see no point in that to be honest.
My suggestion is to open that area to the public. I for one would like to see the top posters and stuff and browse for people in my area. It is NOT an invasion of privacy or anything for users to be able to do this. Everyone that joins this site has read the user agreement and in it it stats that anything they put on the profile page WILL be seen by the public. So if there is something that they dont want everyone to see then they dont have to put it on the profile.
But yeah - I want the members area open to the public. Any second votes for this ?