So, after following that thread I was able to find a bunch of what looks like backed up files for
capra-thread.json. so I renamed the current one old-capra-thread.json and replaced it with the one of the backups (under /threads) that looked like it had the most history. That kind of works. It shows now in my thread on prototyper (looks like only up to a point and only up to until last night’s latest change, even though now I am running an older commit that worked).
Would love to get on a screen share before I mess this up terribly 
Meantime, let’s see what you guys come up with or how much of a mess I’ve made of this