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by tifadg1 1511 days ago
yeah, I know a thing or two about zooming in, having set HN to 190%.

On an unrelated note, why is HN text so small? I understand if it were a hunting site, where you're naturally supposed to use a scope, but for an IT forum that's unusual, given half of us wear glasses!
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jandrese 1511 days ago
It's easily readable on my display, but I'm not using one of those fancy HiDPI displays.

The bigger problem is when posts are printed with a 50% grey font on top of a 25% grey background. Like it's such an obvious usability issue that I have no idea why the developer who set it up didn't have a little laugh at their own expense for the mistake the first time they saw it and then immediately went back and fixed it. Why it it still like this in 2022?

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tifadg1 1511 days ago
not sure I qualify for hidpi - 1900x1200 on a 24". Also I never had issues regarding different shades. Hah just goes to show - hard to please everybody!
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jandrese 1511 days ago
1900x1200 on 24" is definitely not HiDPI. That's 93.625 PPI. HiDPI generally starts at 200 PPI and goes up from there.
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