# We should collapse excerpts by default on mobile
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 12, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146 "2016-07-12T07:23:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/1 "2016-07-12T07:23:17Z")
I just added 2 site settings to control the excerpt behavior for pins.
`show excerpt on pinned topics in mobile view`
and
`show excerpt on pinned topics in desktop view`
I noticed (and many others have mentioned) that as anon the front page on mobile in many of our sites only has room for a very small amount of topics.
  
My change **did not touch defaults**. However I feel that on mobile we should default to suppressing excerpts on pins:
- The misalignment due to suppressed avatar makes stuff play tricks with my OCD.
- If you have 3 pinned topics all you see on front page is 3 pinned topics
- Anon (which is the lions share of traffic) can not unpin
- Some sites don’t even desire the auto unpin function
Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/2 "2016-07-12T10:18:14Z")
I’ve kept a note about this in the back of my head as well. 👍 good change!
In the long term, I’d like to challenge the concept of “pinned topics”. I find them to be in my way a bit too often. Reddit opts for an informative sidebar:
Not really looking to have a discussion about it right now. Just something to ponder.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/3 "2016-07-12T23:13:22Z")
The idea is that people read it to the bottom, then by default it is auto-unpinned. I don’t see a huge problem with the status quo at the moment, though I agree **it sucks to be anon in this case**.
We could hold an anon cookie to clear the pinned topics later but that feels like a complex change?
It also seems you have beef with the **categories page** – where excerpts are expanded by default on mobile which I agree is weird – but what is shown above is **100% latest page**.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/4 "2016-07-12T23:17:17Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It also seems you have beef with the categories page
I also have a beef with category page, but this is unrelated to this beef.
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### Author:  [@ron\_jeremy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ron_jeremy)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/5 "2016-07-14T05:40:36Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> I also have a beef with category page
