How would you re-design fluther to make older questions more accessible and bring them back to life?

I find that many, myself included get stuck in the recency bubble. Looking for ‘new’ questions to answer or asking an old question but in different wording.

I also find that questions I have asked that are outside this recency bubble get next to no further attention.

Could it be that this original simplicity of the thread design makes it near-impossible to maintain and ‘clean-up’ old questions for new input? And if so, what could be some solutions?

Maybe we could apply this design for questions outside the recency bubble – and the old design for newer. What I’m thinking about is a javascript-based hiding of portions of answers/discussions that are off topic. A task that would require a lot more temporary mods, and maybe an internal statistic system. Similar to “adopt a question”. Start off with this or with your own idea, maybe we can help make fluther better.