Just some food for thought:
"Some users have requested that the profile menu (the side panel on the left showing your pet) remain open by default. This is something we've discussed internally for the news dropdown as well. However, making this compatible with fluidly responsive page content would require resources we can't dedicate right now, but we haven't eliminated the possibility sometime in the future." - from the Beta Neoboard, I think
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Screenshot from the Neopets Reddit Discord. van Doodle is TNT staff.
I'm a little behind the times in my understanding of web development so I can't really verify this, but supposedly this is inaccurate. Maybe someone can shed some light on it.