# On mobile, the preferences page dropdowns can be a little confusing

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 25, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-mobile-the-preferences-page-dropdowns-can-be-a-little-confusing/112484 "2019-03-25T07:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-mobile-the-preferences-page-dropdowns-can-be-a-little-confusing/112484/6 "2019-03-25T14:39:10Z")

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I’d be very happy to clarify the menus here, because I also feel like the double dropdowns are a bit odd. I’ve thought about this a little recently and also ran into the “can’t think of a better way to do it” issue.

I initially tried a horizontal scroller like our admin area on mobile:

 ![29%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/c/fc16ffce07cdaaae38c37d935915cfcbefb22c37.png)

but we end up losing this hierarchy for various different inbox archives, which feels worse

 ![41%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/9/a9131c9155f2994296cc490837ec7aa7bb043d6e.png)

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