# Compact messages style

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/compact-messages-style/216678>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compact-messages-style/216678 "2022-02-01T10:55:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![GVG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@GVG](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GVG)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/compact-messages-style/216678/1 "2022-02-01T10:55:11Z")

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Hello,

Discourse default message style at 2022-01 - is too bulky, distracting and space wasting for my opinion. I suggest 2 corrections:

1. Message controls can be placed more compact and accurate - look at my sketch, most of all I like design v2 and v4.
2. Suppose some buttons must be displayed always anyway for mobile as: [Likes, Edit, Answer, …more], but for desktop (Win/Mac/Lx) its possible to display always only [Likes, Edit] and show other controls only on mouse rollover on each message.

PS Placing Likes at other side of message (extremely faar faar away 😃) is conscious decision - it will significantly lower “likes for nothing”, “likes for smile”, “likes for joking”, “likes for wow I see you again”, “likes because of your own good mood”, etc useless nonobjective likes which now used too often without any real sense.

Can anyone help to make such style, please?

 ![more-compact-style_](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/5/c542e69f5d60ff94d3bca14bdb5e918f4a2a8aa8.png)

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