# Edit actions not clear on mobile
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178 "2023-03-06T02:30:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/1 "2023-03-06T02:30:23Z")
Here the user sees a mysterious pencil notification:
He clicks it but can’t figure out what it’s trying to tell him. There’s nothing different about the post he can tell.
> [@Excitement Opt-Out Panel](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excitement-opt-out-panel/256931):
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> Feature Idea!: Have a handy one-stop menu users can click: Skip new user onboarding tips and badges Never Notify when liked, or choose level […] [Disable Trust Promotion Advancement messages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-disabling-trust-level-promotion-message-notifications/256925) instead of scattering them all around. Or, OK, in addition to scattering them around. Are there any more I missed?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/2 "2023-03-06T02:57:50Z")
The post was moved to another category, which is what the edit refers to.
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/3 "2023-03-06T03:04:22Z")
Okay, but the UX needs to be changed. Something needs to tell the user that’s what happened. It’s one big mystery on a PWA. Maybe everything’s hunky-dory on desktop, but not on a cell phone.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/4 "2023-03-06T03:45:49Z")
You can have a look at the edit history
It displays #Contribute > UX → #Contribute > Feature . So you can see what was edited.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/5 "2023-03-06T08:00:07Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> You can have a look at the edit history
Yes, we all can. But I reckon Dan’s idea is that an user must know beforehand what the pencil icon means. It is not so clear for newer users.
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### Author:  [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/6 "2023-03-06T09:59:20Z")
Also, the “ux → feature” recategorizaton indicator doesn’t exactly jump out. Maybe that could be highlighted in some way?
Or even given words, like: “Category updated” or “Topic moved from \_\_\_\_ to \_\_\_\_\_” — I think the latter would be most helpful to new-ish forum visitors who make a post and then get an alert that a mod or admin has done _something_ to their post, but it isn’t clear what.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/7 "2023-03-06T11:41:33Z")
I think a lot of Discourse is designed to be found out gradually rather than be obvious (then it seems obvious once you realise…). Having said that, I think this one is obvious enough 🙂
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/8 "2023-03-08T09:23:19Z")
Yeah that “ux \> feature” just looks like your standard breadcrumb navigation trail menu list or something.
All I know is it certainly doesn’t look like Wikipedia’s history diff or list or anything.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/9 "2023-03-08T09:44:32Z")
Maybe the arrow could be customisable text which you could change to something along the lines of “recategorised to”.
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/10 "2023-03-10T00:46:51Z")
I’m saying worldwide end users are confused by this.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-actions-not-clear-on-mobile/257178/11 "2023-03-10T09:42:54Z")
You’re saying you’re confused. The _lack_ of other topics on this matter in ten years would suggest that millions of worldwide users _aren’t_ confused by this.