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Increase Hacker News Font Size?

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This site appears so tiny on my screen. I can increase the zoom on Chrome, but when I do, any article I click on is also magnified. (Except of course, when I go on a spree of opening new tabs from articles here... which happens very often. Which is why I'm only bringing this up now!

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> I can increase the zoom on Chrome, but when I do, any article I click on is also magnified.

Is this standard behavior for Chrome? I have my HN zoomed at 125% (2 steps up) and while it remembers it for all of this domain, none of the linked stuff is zoomed regardless of what kind of target window it opens in.

Same experience on Firefox here: HN zoomed two steps up, linked pages are not zoomed.

This works for me too (desktop), zoom only applies to HN.

Not a great solution when you simply want larger font size, but I use Stylish on pretty much every page.

I use this: https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news

Makes some of the font larger. You could modify that sheet.

I use the relatively popular Georgify extension for HN (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...)

I made my own version just for fun, but it has a larger size :D http://martinsandstrom.github.io/HackerNews/

Nice! Just started a project myself http://quantumsheep.herokuapp.com/

I use this firefox extention: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page/

Breakes on some sites, but for most it zooms to up to 150%. When I make the browser smaller it might just zoom to less, depending on how well the site reflows.

In Firefox I just zoomed in. It stays that way. Simple solution and it works well. Probably in other browsers as well.

I made this chrome extension to increse visibility and better font size https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernews-theme/n...

For those on mobile (e.g. chrome), zooming in does not reflow the text. So it's not an option

I use Chromium, and I always zoom HN into 150%, haha, it needs only zoom in once.

I zoom in too on Chrome. Not sure why they make it so small.

They did not change the css since a loooonnng time I guess.

On my Android tablet where, sadly, HN is but one of many sites which seem to think I have microscope lenses fitted instead of eyeballs, I use Opera which, while far from perfect, does have one killer feature; namely it reflows text on a page when you pinch to zoom in.

Give it a go, if on mobile. You'll wonder how you lived without it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.brow...

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