# Topic List Previews (TLP)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-tlp/209973
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [November 23, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-tlp/209973 "2021-11-23T12:25:59Z")
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### Author: ![Dimava](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dimava/32/498540_2.png) [@Dimava](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dimava)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-tlp/209973/690 "2025-10-15T18:10:13Z")

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> On desktop the existing wide format has lots of space, but on mobile?

On mobile it switches to full-width image format which was IMO too large for mobile, that’s why I made this

> Where are the excerpts? Don’t forget the design has to sensibly accommodate those.

Under the OP avatar. We don’t use them, just dropped it somewhere. Maybe should be above avatar.

> How do you handle different image aspect ratios or are you forcing 16:9 as per my wide format? (reasonable design decision but let’s be explicit - there are tradeoffs)

No idea lol  
Does your format enforces 16:9 for wide tho? iirc image width was variable

> The duplication of avatars seems unnecessary given the limited space?

It’s “large OP avatar” to see who’s OP. It doesn’t use more vertical space, just covers the padding and is moved to the left

> Each component needs to be a sensibly sized click surface.

dunno what are you talking about, everything’s mostly same size as it was

> One nice thing about supporting a new similar format for mobile is we could add a setting to select it across both desktop and mobile in similar fashion to current settings.

I have no idea how to make default theme on mobile and pc different and dark, so we only have this always-dark always-wide default theme atm

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