Improve reading experience of Talk pages on mobile (Community Wishlist/W239)

Description

Editing experience has improved with Reply-to tool, yet an active Talk discussion with multiple indented comments in the mobile interface is painful. It is difficult because indented comments are not mobile responsive. This results in sometimes one letter per line, so a 4-letter word is spread across four lines.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

Bug report

Tags

Mobile web, Talk pages

Affected users

Anyone interested in Talk pages that are on longer side

Other details

Created: 11:42, 10 August 2024
Last updated: 05:34, 20 November 2025
Author: Shushugah (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 4 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Femke (talk) 16:13, 10 October 2025

Support Shushugah (talk) 05:31, 20 November 2025

Support As more and more people are using the mobile interface, it would definitely be worth considering generating different HTML formatting for talk pages that takes this into account. I suspect that with some thought, this should be possible without altering the wikitext at all. Jmabel (talk) 06:26, 5 December 2025

Support the same problem exists on desktop - windows so narrow that it becomes a problem are just less frequent; this is one of the problems described in W368: Fix the issues breaking the Reply tool so I suggest to also check that wish Prototyperspective (talk) 17:26, 7 December 2025