Make expanded hierarchy on taxon page default or user-level sticky

Feature Requests
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Platform(s): website

URLs : e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52788-Acari (all taxon pages)

Description of need: make the expandedness of the top row user-level sticky or the default

Feature request details:

The top of the page has a row like e.g.
Life > Kingdom Animalia > ... > Class Arachnida > Subclass Accari

Clicking on the three dots expands this into the full hierarchy, i.e. it replaces the dots with
Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Chelicerata

This feature is session-level sticky now. My idea is to have this setting either sticky on a user level, or making the expanded view the default (whatever is simpler to implement). I don’t know whether we need the unexpanded view at all, for my purposes just removing that one would be sufficient.

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Thanks for suggesting this feature. It’s been on my “wish list” for quite a while. Glad to see it explicitly requested.

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I would be fine with this being sticky, but I wouldn’t want it as the default. I rarely use/need this info at the top of the page, and it is otherwise just additional words/distraction. It can also cause spacing issues (bumping other content down) when lower taxonomic levels are viewed and/or when the page is viewed in half-screen.

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This is something I’ve wanted for a while, but agree it shouldn’t be default. I’ll also note that if you choose three common name lexicons for your account, it can get pretty large.

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Made a github issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4212

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