[davidryal]

update2: found shane’s answer here:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/196929/how-to-get-member-list-based-on-role-by-using-buddypress

…and got it to work to only show a single role, which covers about half the users I want to show. I don’t really understand array syntax, but am now neck-deep in the new “role__in” thing in 4.4

…and finally got it to work, after finding https://gist.github.com/sbrajesh/2142009 (the most recent comment is key, bringing in “role__in”

[davidryal]

update: I was able to exclude basic roles using the discussion in the end of this thread https://buddypress.org/support/topic/alphabetically-displaying-only-buddypress-users-in-multisite/

..but can’t get it working reliably with my membership plugin’s roles (PMPro), and it doesn’t update member counts, so I’m going to try the buddydev plugin method.

[davidryal]

I’m trying to solve this as well. I’d hoped for a simple custom fix, but it looks like this might be able to accomplish something similar?

http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-user-searching-by-user-roles/ – note the customization section?