# Discourse create new topic user experience on mobile

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-create-new-topic-user-experience-on-mobile/53632
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [December 1, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-create-new-topic-user-experience-on-mobile/53632 "2016-12-01T15:31:10Z")
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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2016, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-create-new-topic-user-experience-on-mobile/53632/17 "2016-12-02T10:15:40Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Are users really doing a lot of formatting on mobile? In my experience they just type words, sentences, paragraphs and leave it at that.

This is fine I think. But this?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/d/fd2ae3c7db4da4ae34219c9b32d98b2ae4ce1025.jpg)

Please note that I’m not (this time!) advocating WYSIWYG, just that what should be a single indivisible object (an image) appears to the user as an incomprehensible blob of computerese that is easily broken. With no preview pane, how is the user supposed to know what it is?

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