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Comment by jiwidi | Hacker News Reader

I like the idea but I uninstalled it because it made everything too big. I'm using a 2022 mbpro with small text and it totally screw the scale of original HN.

Without the extension i can see 26-27 feed articles and with it is just 7-8, I think you still make it show the original 22-23 as HN leaves a lot of spaces on the sides.

edit: Here are some imgs to show https://imgur.com/a/WddNttU. As you can see original HN leave enough space for your new features without any need to rescale things

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I don't know if it will fix your font size problem, but this is what I have in my userContent.css for Firefox:

    @-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com) {
      body {
        background-color: #d4d4cb;
        margin-top: 0;
      }
    
      #hnmain {
        max-width: 960px;
      }
    
      .title {
        font-size: 1.5rem !important;
      }
    
      body, td, input, textarea,
      .default, .admin, .subtext, .yclinks, .pagetop, .comment, .hnname {
        font-size: 1rem !important;
      }
    
      .comhead {
        font-size: 0.8rem !important;
      }
    }

Using rem units means it respects the font size defined in my Firefox configuration. The rest is mostly about avoiding ultra wide content.

Hi.

Thanks for trying it out.

I can certainly provide font-size customisation in-app, but for now one could adapt the font-size in their liking with browser's zoom capability (ctrl+ or ctrl - key combination).

Yeah it definitely improves with zoom out, i just dont like the idea of having custom zooms per page but thats just being very picky me.

Also, have you thought of supporting the custom hn top bar color? I think you get that setting after some karma and ppl change it, for me is not a big deal but it may be something people want to keep.

Also just noticed that the chrome link preview that appears when hoving over a link comes on top of your menu since its aligned to the left. Maybe having it aligned to center as the header bar makes more sense?

> i just dont like the idea of having custom zooms per page

I understand. It's just a workaround for now.

> have you thought of supporting the custom hn top bar color?

Thanks. I will add support for it in the next update.

Hmm, it doesn't really solve. You removed all margins and when zooming out you get a screen really full of content.

I appreciated the increased text size. Have had a setting for HN at 120% font size because I have trouble reading the small default size. Can't please everyone I guess?

Zooming out to ~65% at the browser level makes it a lot more usable for me

Why is your HN topbar blue?

Are you better than me or something!? Harumph.

When you get 500 karma you can change your top bar background color.

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