# Avatars en gebruikersnamen in mobiele berichtenweergave

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatars-and-usernames-in-mobile-message-view/212162
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [15 december 2021 om 09:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatars-and-usernames-in-mobile-message-view/212162 "2021-12-15T09:02:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [15 december 2021 om 09:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatars-and-usernames-in-mobile-message-view/212162/1 "2021-12-15T09:02:52Z")

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The mobile message view is very minimal, i.e. there are no avatars and no usernames, making it hard to navigate. It would be nice if this would be up to par with the rest of the Discourse UI.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/2/829af44704311336e113ee6000f6648083ea8686.png)

Compare this to a normal topic view in mobile:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/2/e23cb45689ab1a1ebb3cb5ba7f9d5065396618f4.png)

This could be solved by a theme component but it would require overriding a template and that is ~~fragile~~ hard to maintain, so I am proposing that this is fixed in core.

Related: is it me or is the message view hard to find?

Earlier:

- [Better Mobile PM view by showing TS avatar](https://meta.discourse.org/t/better-mobile-pm-view-by-showing-ts-avatar/173258)
- [No username/avatar on messages on inbox (mobile)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-username-avatar-on-messages-on-inbox-mobile/177068)
- [Avatars in the PM view on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatars-in-the-pm-view-on-mobile/58965)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [15 december 2021 om 20:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatars-and-usernames-in-mobile-message-view/212162/2 "2021-12-15T20:32:06Z")

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I can’t seem to figure out why they were hidden to begin with, perhaps to save some space? Being consistent makes sense to me, and it simplifies things a little bit. I’ve opened a PR:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15323](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/15323)