# Topic template is confusing on mobile
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180 "2023-03-06T02:46:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/1 "2023-03-06T02:46:38Z")
It says first press Search at the top of the screen,
Well I did, and the keyboard pops up, and now it’s not clear where I am inputting words into.
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### Author:  [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/2 "2023-03-06T02:56:25Z")
This shows for everyone opening a new topic in #Support, it’s called a [Topic template](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates-for-categories-and-other-alternatives/38295). You are supposed to remove it and then compose your post.
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/3 "2023-03-06T03:06:02Z")
Yes, but following its instructions leads to a UX disaster at least on a cell phone.
So there is competition between the topic creation buffer and the search buffer. They can’t coexist.
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### Author:  [@MarcP](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarcP)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/4 "2023-03-06T03:27:38Z")
Hmm.. I don’t even see the header when opening a topic:
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/5 "2023-03-06T09:47:01Z")
Hello,
What is happening here is when you clicking search it navigate you to the `/search` page and the focus is automatically goes to the search input this is why the keyboard shows up but the opened composer hide the whole page so you can’t realize what is the actual page where you are and seems nothing happened. But when you start typing it will put the text to the search input field.
I think it would be nice if the composer minimized automatically on mobile (Android) when it is navigated to an other page. 🙂
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/6 "2023-03-08T09:06:57Z")
Okay things we type are going to the search box which is hidden… 100% UX disaster!
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/7 "2023-03-08T12:32:07Z")
> [@MarcP](#):
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> I don’t even see the header when opening a topic:
I don’t either, which means there is no magnifying glass icon “at the top right” when that text is displayed. I’ve never liked that template. Some sort of dismissible panel might be better.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/8 "2023-03-08T12:54:08Z")
I didn’t like that template either. And that’s why I changed it. As supposed.
So this topic isn’t UX of Discourse anymore, if has ever been. It is topic of UX of Meta.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/9 "2023-03-08T13:01:04Z")
You’re right. It belongs in #Contribute > Site feedback really. They’ve had topic templates since at least 2016 ([Using topic templates for categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-templates-for-categories-and-other-alternatives/38295)) but I think the one in question here was introduced within the last couple of years.
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### Author:  [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/10 "2023-03-10T00:40:29Z")
“Can’t blame me” for being unable to tell if it was a
- local feature, as it turns out to be, or
- the way the newest version of Discourse looks.
Nope, without full details, like
> **[Version - Sterbal Family Recipes](https://sterbalfamilyrecipes.miraheze.org/wiki/Special:Version)**
available to the end user, it’s all a guess.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-template-is-confusing-on-mobile/257180/11 "2023-03-10T05:52:49Z")
I have moved this to site-feedback because it’s specific to Meta and the template we use here.