# 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:** [2016 年 7 月 12 日午前 7:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146 "2016-07-12T07:23:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 7 月 12 日午前 7:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/we-should-collapse-excerpts-by-default-on-mobile/47146/1 "2016-07-12T07:23:17Z")

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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.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/4/54ccccfd4056f29cd31b1a507d33cf8631e46963.png) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/c/2cf42558e21c070fa532bd9e0bab3788599805e0.png) ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/9/890d778b6c2c04b5b463bdcdd2c0ed1afce0e672.png)

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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