# Discourse Tab Bar for Mobile

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-tab-bar-for-mobile/75696
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [December 8, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-tab-bar-for-mobile/75696 "2017-12-08T18:05:34Z")
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### Author: ![Decorbuz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/decorbuz/32/235124_2.png) [@Decorbuz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Decorbuz)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-tab-bar-for-mobile/75696/134 "2021-12-24T03:37:46Z")

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That’s great! I just did it and it reminds me of YouTube’s implementation. Overall, very nice! 😀

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/c/ac2e9d712ec9c40c3561900c97a019bb0c7eb3d4.png)  
 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/0/b0afa6365eeaad419ef2cfe5b306b9352c04a111.png)

Would it be possible to add a button that redirects users to the “Discourse Chat” section of the community?

> [@Introducing Discourse Chat (BETA)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-chat-pre-alpha/210734):
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> Three years ago we published a blog post about how Discourse and the long-form forum paradigm can co-exist with the short-form chat paradigm: This kind of tooling mashup works, but it has some flaws. You end up with: Duplicate user directories Competing forms of private messaging “Where does this message belong?” uncertainty Poorly integrated tools for [content gardening](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)[One of the most upvoted HN stories](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216) of this year was a post about forums being superior to chat: The very first paragra…

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