# Mobile : Post Amend / Tag Selection

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-post-amend-tag-selection/54031
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-post-amend-tag-selection/54031 "2016-12-09T18:31:23Z")
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### Author: ![akaAlso](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/akaalso/32/64200_2.png) [@akaAlso](https://meta.discourse.org/u/akaAlso)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-post-amend-tag-selection/54031/6 "2016-12-09T20:59:26Z")

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I came across the same problem using my SurfaceBook,

> [@Creating new tags issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-new-tags-issue/53129):
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> I’m not able to create new tags recently, I get redirected to a tags page showing the few that have been created previously with the heading Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private This happens if I try to create a new tag in a topic and also in the tags group page when I tried following the tagging how-to. If I add an existing tag to a new topic I get immediately taken to the topics summary page for that tag as though I’d selected the filter from the ribbon. I believe I’m on 1.6, on a [C…](https://www.communiteq.com)

@jomaxro outlines some of the issues and related threads here

> [@User Experience on Discourse with optional touch-input](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-experience-on-discourse-with-optional-touch-input/40190):
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> Continuing the discussion from [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-our-new-post-rendering-engine/39221/117), [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308), [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lack-of-auto-focus-when-hitting-reply-on-multi-input-systems/36002), and [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempt-to-filter-category-on-topic-edit-results-in-modifying-title/35738)… All the topics linked above have in common that there are issues with Discourse, generally related to UX, when a using Discourse on a system that has touch, but primarily is interacted with via keyboard and mouse. First, it is my understanding (according to @codinghorror) that it is not possible with JS and HTML to detect this type of system, separately from any other system that has a touch input. With that out of the way, I would li…

The whole touch screen issue gets really confusing, and it’s easy to forget what system I’m interacting with, often prodding non-touch enabled monitors, and struggling with the Sbook due to unfamiliarity with the different interactions available.

There was another thread on here discussing the difference between mouseclick and the touch input which I can’t find at the moment, but did seem to confirm that it’s not a trivial fix to cater for different inputs?

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