# Links for filtering for a user in a thread isn't available on cell phone **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337 "2025-12-02T21:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/1 "2025-12-02T21:39:33Z")
At the end of the first and posts in a thread, there’s a link to see all the frequent posters in that thread. When you’re on a computer, if you click on one of them, it gives you the option of seeing _only_ their posts in that thread. It makes it easier to track down a post you’re looking for in a very long thread. This no longer works on my android phone. It hasn’t for quite awhile. It shows the posters, but there’s no option to filter just the one you want to see. I know that I can go up to the search magnifying glass and do a search, but I wonder why the option to just click on the avatar isn’t there on cell phones (or at least, mine). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/2 "2025-12-02T21:53:10Z")
Thanks for posting this. I had noticed this shortcoming some months ago and had wanted to ask about it too. It’s not available on mine either (Chrome on Android using Discourse-classic theme). It seems the [filter] button is simply absent from that user profile pop-up on a mobile, but not a PC. On a related note … On a PC (Win 11 + Edge in my case) that same user pop-up _does_ have the [filter] button. As noted above. Unless the poster in question only has 1 post in the thread. Then the [filter] button is absent. That seems like a pointless bit of special-casing. The user’s goal is to see all the posts and only the posts by other User-X. Frustrating that goal when User-X only has 1 post seems utterly pointless. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/3 "2025-12-02T22:07:04Z")
Just so I can be clear, are we talking about how beneath the first and last posts there’s a list of avatars representing the most frequent responders? Because if I tap on those on my android tablet (phone is charging right now) it brings up the usual micro summary of the poster in a pop-up, and at the top right corner of the pop up it gives me an option to message them and just below button listing their posts in topic, which works fine for me in Chrome at least. Just because I may be mistaking what’s going on. FTR though, I use “Dark” theme, not any of the SDMB or other, older themes. So at a guess, it’s another theme related issue. I did my testing in the Anti retirement support thread, to make sure it had enough posts to have said icons. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/4 "2025-12-02T22:11:21Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Just so I can be clear, are we talking about how beneath the first and last posts there’s a list of avatars representing the most frequent responders? Because if I tap on those on my android tablet (phone is charging right now) it brings up the usual micro summary of the poster in a pop-up, and at the top right corner of the pop up it gives me an option to message them and just below button listing their posts in topic Yes. That’s exactly what we’re talking about. But on a phone it looks like this: > Just so I can be clear, are we talking about how beneath the first and last posts there’s a list of avatars representing the most frequent responders? Because if I tap on those on my android tablet (phone is charging right now) it brings up the usual micro summary of the poster in a pop-up, and at the top right corner of the pop up it gives me an option to message them and ~~just below button listing their posts in topic~~ nothing else. The [(funnel icon) _N_ posts in topic] button simply isn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/5 "2025-12-02T22:23:16Z")
Is all of this true regardless of chosen theme? Often it’s important to say what theme you’re using, because some behaviors change depending on theme. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/6 "2025-12-02T22:24:34Z")
Strangely, if I go to a post of a person who has more than one post in the thread and click on their avatar, I DO get the filter option. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/7 "2025-12-02T22:24:35Z")
Thank you, I was pretty sure, but sometimes that’s just a way to misunderstand with _confidence_. Since my phone now has a usable amount of charge, I checked there as well. First, I found that I didn’t get the icons at all in portrait mode, but they are there in landscape (new info for me!) with a working funnel icon. Pixel 8a, Chrome, signed in, same “Dark” theme. What I see: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/vFf77Qt.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/vFf77Qt) (using myself, don’t want to do so for others). So yeah, betting it’s a Theme issue. I am using Imgur to share, since the alternates are so buggy to me as to be pointless - sorry for all our posters who cannot currently see such content. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/8 "2025-12-02T22:27:36Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > but they are there in landscape (new info for me!) with a working funnel icon. Me too! Straight Dope Light. It only works in landscape, but at least it works. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/9 "2025-12-02T22:35:37Z")
You’re very welcome, hope it works for everyone else having the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/10 "2025-12-02T23:08:59Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > with a working funnel icon I knew about the “turn sideways” trick, but what is a funnel icon? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/11 "2025-12-02T23:09:23Z")
D’oh. As noted before I use DIscourse-classic theme. Landscape on phone has the set of poster icons below the first and last posts and the poster popups include the filter button. _If_ the poster has \>1 post. Portrait on phone doesn’t have any of that. No poster list, no popups, no filters. I’d swear that up until recently (yesterday?) portrait mode had the set of poster icons but not the filter button. I never use landscape on the phone. So I’m pretty confident of my assertion about how portrait used to work. But now it has no user roster at all. Ughh. That’s not an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/12 "2025-12-02T23:11:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I knew about the “turn sideways” trick, but what is a funnel icon? Once you pull up a user popup, theres a button that says [_N_ posts in topic]. Clicking that filters the thread to just that poster’s posts. There’s an icon inside that button near the left edge. It’s a representation of a funnel. Which is the pretty universal computer icon for a filtration function. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/13 "2025-12-02T23:17:33Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I knew about the “turn sideways” trick, but what is a funnel icon? In the screenshot I took in my prior post, inside the user pop-up box, there’s the “412 Posts in topic” with the funnel icon for filtration to the side. If the pic loads of course. I figure in the event of confusion, it’s easier to see an example. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/14 "2025-12-02T23:43:04Z")
I’ve seen that icon many times, I never once realized it was supposed to be a funnel. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/15 "2025-12-02T23:45:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Portrait on phone doesn’t have any of that. No poster list, no popups, no filters. I’d swear that up until recently (yesterday?) portrait mode had the set of poster icons but not the filter button You’re correct. I’ve been playing with this for the last 2-3 days to post about and so specifically remember them. Pretty sure (but not positive) they were present this morning. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/16 "2025-12-02T23:47:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I never once realized it was supposed to be a funnel. Excel has a similar funnel - probably many other programs, too. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/17 "2025-12-03T00:04:26Z")
Like the FedEx arrow, the funnel as filter is invisibly inscrutable until it’s unmistakably obvious. Of course it’s a terrible graphic metaphor since real funnels pass 100% of what goes into them. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/18 "2025-12-03T00:17:57Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > since real funnels pass 100% of what goes into them. Except for the stuff that’s too large to fit through the spout. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-for-filtering-for-a-user-in-a-thread-isnt-available-on-cell-phone/1025337/19 "2025-12-03T00:35:11Z")
Ahh, that’s the sieve part. I think of funnels only in terms of liquids, not lumpy goop or granular solids. But that’s my limitation.