# Device detection and review request

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/device-detection-and-review-request/297446>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 1, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/device-detection-and-review-request/297446 "2024-03-01T11:03:16Z")\
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We are a web magazine that specializes in Android smartphones. We have recently deployed Discourse and we are thrilled. We even used Discourse to completely replace user accounts and comments in our WordPress.

It would be great for us if Discourse (or its plugin) could detect the specific device model and operating system of visitors.

We’d like to ask them to share their experience with others on a specific topic based on detecting their smartphone type.

There are plenty of open source tools for detecting specific devices

For example:

- Yauaa (we like this one the best)
- Modernizr
- Bowser
- Detector
- WURFL.js
- Platform.js
- UA-Parser.js
- FingerprintJS
- Am I Responsive
- Device.js
- Screen Size Map
- React Device Detect
- Responsivepx

Could this feature become a new optional feature of Discourse, or could someone program such a useful extension?

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