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It's Ctrl + Mouse wheel

That's using your browser then no?

That's just the browser zoom. It doesn't increase the quality of the photos.

This is a demo of what it looks like for me:

Dunno what to tell you. :/ It does need mouse focus, but I imagine you tried that. I did not need to use Ctrl.

I was talking about the feed, not the closeup gallery view.