I just discovered a hide/show feature for threads. (NOT talking about RAT)

It's possible to collapse individual subtrees. (confusingly at the foot of the top-post but otherwise at the head)

First I thought the recently very active gods implemented a new feature and bypassed the patch system again.

But the truth is, this feature already existed for a very long time and I only (re?)discovered it because I was playing with the settings to have threads composed with <divs>

• Display Settings
• Lay out threads as <div> instead of <table>? [X]

For instance in Using exists to check element in array

You'll see

Using exists to check element in array
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It's surprising that this feature doesn't exist for the <table> version.

I could think of many ways to have this expanded in a meaningful way, like changing the toggles or auto-collapsing old posts.

Alas I'm too busy juggling my other projects right now.

At least I wanted to leave this note for future reference and possible motivation.