Okay, have been putting this one off, but it needs to get done…  been annoying me too when doing the admin redesign and the special forum ranks…  displaying all the members from the db at once is not the right way to do it…  bug issue #203 already in place…

soliciting ideas and.or suggestions…  a couple pop into mind right away…

1) move to an search based interface like the display members list on the fron page…  that is, enter a search string and display matching users and let them select…  could even allow display all option with warning about speed, memory, etc…  drawback is that selecting multiple users at once becomes harder…

2) add ability to put users into usergroups onto the manage users page…  small numbers at once…  can search, etc…  again, multiple users becomes harder… would require new columns for listing current membership and adding for each user…   a bit duplicative of the manage user groups then…

3) paged popup list of users…  but again, selecting more than one becomes difficult…

so, in effect, to display large groups, means in batches which means less multi select ability…  is that an issue?