# A plea to the Car Talk Web Lackeys **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** passat\ **Created:** [June 21, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622 "2008-06-21T01:01:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/1 "2008-06-21T01:01:52Z")
Please, oh please, can we have some navigation buttons within threads? Something like “Next oldest post” and Next newest post"??? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Jad2007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@Jad2007](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jad2007)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/2 "2008-06-21T01:18:03Z")
And a “# of posts by user”, join dates, and PMs! ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/3 "2008-06-21T01:35:34Z")
The threads do get confusing don’t they? The search feature also leaves a bit to be desired, but I’ve trained myself to just ignore that feature completely. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/4 "2008-06-21T02:13:45Z")
And a “# of posts by user”, join dates, and PMs! I didn’t want to sound greedy. ---
**Author:** ![Ranck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Ranck](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ranck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/5 "2008-06-21T15:09:31Z")
No, no, they’re too busy “building communities” to be bothered with actual functionality of the forums. In other words, get used to it. They haven’t made a change or fix or upgrade of any sort in close to a year. It’s clearly not going to happen until the next big changeover. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/6 "2008-06-21T15:59:32Z")
Or at least page buttons. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/7 "2008-06-21T16:40:42Z")
I’d be happy with some kinda highlighting that showed the new post(s) in the threads ---
**Author:** ![Roadrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roadrunner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Roadrunner)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/8 "2008-06-21T18:34:02Z")
Change the dark grey bars to a light color so I can READ the words printed there!!! I have to jack up my font size three or four times in order to read them. PITA IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/9 "2008-06-22T02:07:39Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/10 "2008-06-22T02:21:02Z")
It seems to be a function of the software they’ve selected. This software (used by quire a few other forums) seems to contain all these features and is much easier to navigate: [http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/forumdisplay.php?f=15](http://www.mercedesshop.com/shopforum/forumdisplay.php?f=15) ---
**Author:** ![Jad2007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@Jad2007](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jad2007)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/11 "2008-06-22T02:37:15Z")
Yup, vBulletin and IP Board are modern, customizable bulletin board systems used by a lot of people. They actually have FEATURES… ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/12 "2008-06-22T02:45:07Z")
It is probably not practical to customize this software to the point where it is equivalent to those products. ---
**Author:** ![Jad2007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@Jad2007](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jad2007)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/13 "2008-06-22T02:49:33Z")
Agreed; I don’t think this software is customizeable, period. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/14 "2008-06-23T19:13:56Z")
I find it hard to believe the software can’t be tweaked. ---
**Author:** ![cappy208](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cappy208/32/31_2.png) [@cappy208](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cappy208)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/15 "2008-06-23T19:20:10Z")
i think this software is about as customizable as a rambler. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/16 "2008-06-23T20:00:25Z")
The software probably can be tweaked…BUT they may not OWN the software. They probably bought it and incorporate it into this Website. So tweaking may not be very straight forward. As far as those features…Many years ago a company called Digital Equipment had a product called Note Files. It is basically something like this forum…but NON web (although later I heard they wrote a web version). And they had features FAR superior to any of these forums I’ve ever seen. A nice feature called Next UnSeen - takes you to the next post you never viewed. So you don’t end up viewing all posts that you already viewed. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-plea-to-the-car-talk-web-lackeys/15622/17 "2008-06-24T04:15:38Z")
The vBulletin software has also included that “go to first new post” feature forever. It also puts the latest posts at the bottom, even if it responds to and quotes an earlier post.