My problem with the Analysis/Study collapse/expand mechanism in Lichess

Hypothesis of Lichess proper button. This is a mainline tool. It might help about visual signals about the mainline where about, as we nagivate through the non-mainline ideas, and then rewind from there too far back, because, say we need to rewind that variations, but darn, we rewinded too far back and now going forward we will use the glorious mainline...

having peripheral vision bigger signal about where the active position is w.r.t. leftmost branching point might help avoid that, while focusing on the board. I use the scroll whell on my mouse for fast back and forth (I do like to look at positions before a segment and after, in close in small time between the 2.

It might be only from mainline though, I guess i might still have the problem for deeper sets of branches with a brancing point within a variation from the mainline.

Am I wrong, that it is only about mainline branching points? Well. It might be helpful for not getting back to mainline in error.

I guess if one use make mainline to study each variations then this can visit all branching points eventually.

but then one loses the possible intended information in the sibling ordering at each branching points.

So that might not be the intent with this feature. or is it? (that we make main line to explore deeper than active mainline variations).

That still leave the "force variation" getting rid of all parentheses in the whole tree, dysfunctional. I am not sure why that has to be, or if just an oversight at new coding level (not the plan of it). I mean from my point of view as user, inferring logic of the variation divulgation button and that meaning my previous habit has to go or not.

@schlawg said in #2:

in lichess implementation, "collapse branch" means hide everything but the main child's line. it does not mean collapse the parent itself into a leaf node. that would be kind of confusing on the mainline, and i believe most usage of this function will occur there.

i don't think i can be more clear than this.

Is there a way to keep it as it was ? It is not useful for me, and on the contrary makes it a lot harder to understand.

at the moment, no.

not without userstyles via stylus, tampermonkey, etc.