I don't think you can. Most of us have even stopped complaining about the forum software. It's old and it sucks and someday (although we may be talking on a geologic time scale) they will get around to upgrading it.

Whenever the topic comes up, the response is that it's not a priority compared to preparing new projects and maintaining the existing ones. And while that's true, users coming here for the first time are often amazed at how primitive it is compared to the best products on the market. I personally think that costs us members but I'm probably in the minority or something would have been done about it already.

twilyth gives a good description of the situation. I believe that we picked this software in 2004 because of its East Asian language capability, which was a nice forward-looking capability. However, it had not yet been extended to handle multiple servers, which is a necessity for professional sites, so we had to hack the single-server implementation to work on multiple servers. This introduced some bugs that broke the colored envelopes that are supposed to show what you have read, By now, we are at least a year past the time when we expected to upgrade to the current version of mvnForum, which is much improved. It is difficult to schedule new projects. We often spend a few years in contact with a research group, then suddenly sprint for 3 or 4 months to implement the project. Since that is our priority, things like the forum software just go back onto the shelf until the projects are running smoothly.

Lawrence