im not sure if this is just me being stupid or something, but the bar on the left side of the screen has disappeared all of a sudden, and im not sure what i did to get rid of it, but it's not coming back. I've tried clearing my cache and restarting my PC. did i potentially accidentally hit a setting i wasn't meant to or something?

See where the little time rectangle is by the Subeta logo near the top?

Try hitting those little arrows to the right of the time.

ahh, derp moment indeed! got it, thanks!

If you want to disable the button so you don't accidentally click on it again, you can add this to your Custom CSS

https://subeta.net/preferences.php?act=customcss

-toggle-button {display: none;}