Papa Tom

I am trying to find a setting to make the font as large as it was before the software update, but I don't see anything.

ItsJustMe

You can't hold down the control key and roll your mouse's scroll wheel up?

Or hold down control and hit numpad +?

CB HI

It took me a year to get my wife to do that, rather than just complain to me.

Plus the pull down control menu at the top right of google chrome and IE work well.

KD5NRH

https://www.amazon.com/E3060-VP-Styl...dp/B01FL27D2Y/

Oh, and the "get off my lawn" forum is Fifty Plus (50+) - Bike Forums

Papa Tom

OK, so does anybody have a non-sarcastic answer?

tsl

Yes.

If you complain to the wrong people, you're just whining. We are the wrong people.

If your complaint is serious, you need to post it here: Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Bike Forums

Meanwhile, the tips above on how to adjust the display size within your browser remain valid, even if you're as unwilling as it seems to use them.

If you're not willing to use the suggestions above (in case you missed it, post #2 from ItsJustMe), use Firefox and install the "NoSquint" extension. It lets you adjust the sizes (and more) on a site-by-site basis, and it retains those settings.

wphamilton

I did this, in the "migration problems" thread. Another concurring opinion couldn't hurt.

There is also a NoSquint extension for Chrome.

locolobo13 

Thanks for the tip on the NoSquint.

tarwheel 

Control and the + key will solve the issue

mgw4jc

As others have mentioned, you can adjust the font size of any website.
Windows browsers usually work with Ctrl and Plus or Ctrl and Mouse scroll up. Or else go to the View menu and look for Text size or Zoom.

Can't say what the Mac equivalent is, but I'm sure it's there.

no motor?

No kidding, that's great. Do they have an extension that would have told me where I left my reading glasses before I switched to bifocals too?

tjspiel

Command+ and Command-

fietsbob

+1, Zoom in function seems to Work , on my computer.

79pmooney

In defense of Papa Tom - he spared the moderators and forum builders of yet another question on a day when they are probably answering dozens to hundreds. Instead he asked a group of folks who clearly have nothing better to do than help him out. (That most do little more than make fun of him instead of offering anything helpful, well that's on them. To those that actually helped - thanks. I learned something. Apparently I was sleeping when they covered Ctrl +/- in my classes on DOS with the state of the art HP 286s. Websites? I thought I had to look under the desk for those.)

Ben

drat

Indeed ctrl+, however it is still annoying to have to make that adjustment every time one moves from one web page to another. I am generally able to browse dozens of web pages without adjustment and it is annoying when one site is odd man out. I think that justifies some web-meister attention to the issue.

noglider 

These solutions do address the problem, but the problem remains for many users. I see no reason the font should be this small as a default. I'd like to see it increased.

deapee

How is hitting CTRL + hard? If you don't know how to use a web browser, it's not the message board admin's problem.

noglider 

It's not hard for any individual, but why subject a large number of people to a small burden? I think we should multiply the magnitude of the burden by the number of people to get the amount of inconvenience caused. For the same reason, I try to write clearly not because understanding unclear text is hard for any one person but because making many other people do my thinking for me is rudely inconsiderate.

If I steal a million dollars by taking a cent from a hundred million people, isn't that still a million dollar theft?

unterhausen

I just use control mousewheel. But you can use control + as well. I didn't notice a font change with the forum change though.

Have to check out nosquint at home, lots of websites with tiny font

Papa Tom

Thank you, noglider.

Yes, I have been using computers since 1984 and I am very well aware of "Control +" and all the little tricks that result in one-time solutions. Like others of my generation who did not grow up flying through the levels of video games and never paying any mind to the zillions of repetitive actions you have to take to accomplish things that should be there by default, I DO mind having to adjust my browser for this one website.

It was fine before. If there is something I can do to get it back to where it was on June 20th, I'd like to know. If that irks some of you, please just skip this thread.

To those who suggested I contact the moderators, thank you. I did not know there was a direct way to do that.

unterhausen

I thought control + was persistent

moved to forum suggestions from commuting

IBobi

Font size is pretty standard. I would respectfully suggest that those who need the larger font simply adjust browser settings for BF, rather than impose a sitewide change that is going to affect how everyone's posts display.

Now, should there be a sitewide groundswell of support, that would be different

Papa Tom

I think it's fixed. Either that, or my eyes got better sometime during the day today.

Thanks to whoever took care of it.

IBobi

I think Mike pumped it up 1 spot.

BobbyG

I thought it was 50 plus medical issues.