Thank you Frank.
I have a way of hiding the scrolldown menu to change the view of the forum (the mode) with custom css in the theme. And I would activate it if it weren't for the fact that students who are already in a different mode than the default for our Moodle will not be able to go back (I cannot ask them to add "&mode=3" to their URL.
But I wonder how long does the preference remains and whether that cookie expires. I could eliminate the menu in between Terms, maybe. But I wish I knew a custom CSS to set the nested view for all forums by default
To hide the menu:
.discussioncontrol.displaymode {
display: none;
}
To hide rating boxes in replies to replies in nested view (we are actually using this one now)
.indent .indent .forum-post-rating {
display: none;
}
I will mention the possible improvement in the tracker as you suggest.
Best,
Fabian
Update: here is my suggestion
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-61992