# Suggestion: add a button to switch back from fullscreen to small chat

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-add-a-button-to-switch-back-from-fullscreen-to-small-chat/221388>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [March 18, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-add-a-button-to-switch-back-from-fullscreen-to-small-chat/221388 "2022-03-18T20:22:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![geoff777](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/geoff777/32/202388_2.png) [@geoff777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/geoff777)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-add-a-button-to-switch-back-from-fullscreen-to-small-chat/221388/15 "2022-04-01T10:42:28Z")

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The back button does absolutely nothing to the chat?

The chat appears to work like a modal or the editor and cover the topic below.  
I’m guessing it isn’t quite the same as ‘forward’ will work and take you to the full size chat … but it doesn’t return to the small chat.

@markvanlan seems to be very resistant to the ‘toggle’.

I 'd like to be able to expand the chat and then toggle back to the smaller chat so I can read the topic below. It feels like that is how it should work.

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