# Post Action Buttons are hidden behind an "expansion" button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016年二月10日 21:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371 "2016-02-10T21:58:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![FichteFoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fichtefoll/32/105406_2.png) [@FichteFoll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FichteFoll)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 21:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/1 "2016-02-10T21:58:17Z")

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I wanted to bookmark my own post, but couldn’t because the button was not there.

Later I discovered that I had to press the ellipses (`…`) button to expand hidden post action buttons. It expanded to “bookmark” and “delete”.

How many buttons can there be that this would be necessary?

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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 22:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/2 "2016-02-10T22:01:09Z")

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I see it here… it is behind the ellipsis, but it is there…

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**Author:** ![FichteFoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fichtefoll/32/105406_2.png) [@FichteFoll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FichteFoll)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 22:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/3 "2016-02-10T22:02:42Z")

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Yes, I just noticed that when I created this topic and the bookmark button _was_ there. That made me go back to the other post where I wanted to do it and realize that it was hidden behind this ellipses button.

Edited the post to reflect that.

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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 22:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/4 "2016-02-10T22:09:15Z")

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You have 100% control over this, you are wanting to remove bookmark from the following Admin \> Setting  
`post menu hidden items`

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**Author:** ![FichteFoll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fichtefoll/32/105406_2.png) [@FichteFoll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FichteFoll)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 22:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/5 "2016-02-10T22:27:07Z")

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If changing this requires you to be an admin of a board, I wouldn’t consider this 100% control. I am not an admin on that board, nor am I on this one.

With that said, I’d like to debate why this is the default configuration (and why the delete icon is not next to the edit icon). I have a total of 4 buttons on other’s posts (or on my topics) and 5 buttons on my posts, if expanded. 5 seems totally reasonable to me and I don’t see the necessity of hiding that one extra button and an additional one behind an ellipses button instead.  
Is the number of buttons different for staffers?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016年二月10日 23:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-action-buttons-are-hidden-behind-an-expansion-button/39371/6 "2016-02-10T23:28:35Z")

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The key, most important actions, in order, are:

1. like (glyph)
2. link (glyph)
3. flag (glyph)

and of course of those the _very_ most important is

- reply (full word + glyph)

everything else is hidden behind an … ellipsis to keep the UI uncluttered.
