yes, and no that's not it. won't do what we need.
we need to have the ability to expand/collapse forum thread index just as we were used to for so MANY years (10? 15? years) with UBBthreads predecessor and then with Ubbthreads.
and btw, yes personally i use flat mode while in a thread --it is the expansion/collapse of the INDEX that is SO all important.
thanks though.