> Some years ago there was an NPR story on women in academia and how one decided to get together 50 top female academics in their fields and update Wikipedia in their subject matter that they hold PHD's in and work at Universities teaching about. Waste of time, all deleted.
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Can't find the NPR article based on your description.
There is an existing discussion to add threading to Element: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2349. To sum up, the backend already somewhat supports it by tagging a message with a `thread_id`. Then the UI can group messages by their `thread_id`s.