# Creating/Editing a post on mobile: let's discuss the 2026 Discourse experience

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-editing-a-post-on-mobile-lets-discuss-the-2026-discourse-experience/400393
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** composer, mobile
**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-editing-a-post-on-mobile-lets-discuss-the-2026-discourse-experience/400393 "2026-04-10T12:38:08Z")
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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-editing-a-post-on-mobile-lets-discuss-the-2026-discourse-experience/400393/13 "2026-04-10T21:09:57Z")

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OK i was pretty critical so i also want to “boost” (figuratively lol) the design/development improvement on mobile that i don’t think gets enough praise or attention: the deprecation of `/mobile` and `/desktop` folder paths for the views.

> [@Improving automatic switching of mobile/desktop modes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-automatic-switching-of-mobile-desktop-modes/384280):
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> Historically, Discourse has had two distinct views for mobile and desktop. Over the years, these have tended to converge towards more modern viewport-width-based design. Those modern patterns are documented [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/367810). In the [latest version of Discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35036), we are replacing the user-agent-based detection of mobile/desktop modes, in favour of a purely viewport-width-based solution. This will make things much more intuitive for users and developers. In particular, this is a significant improvement for ta…

at first i was skeptical and even a bit annoyed, but it did not take me long to like it better. this was a great and much needed change IMO. i think i recall Moin scolding me for not liking it at first lol. but, yea, thank you for that because i love that i can target all viewport sizes in one code file, _including_ tablet size specifically. 👏

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