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posted ago by pastaroni ago by pastaroni +144 / -1

Not sure how to ask this so I will make a post:

It seems over the last couple days, pinch to zoom has been disabled on mobile devices on this site. I didn't realize how much I used it until it was taken away. I can't read half the posts on my mobile device without it. eg: Any post That has text in images is usually too small to read.

If this was disabled intentionally, is there any way we could get it back?

Thank you


Edit: Solution from scyenceFiction below:

Weird. I never lost the capability. As a thought... go into accessibility settings for your browser, there should be an option to override sites' zoom settings, for instance, in Brave:

Three dot context menu at the bottom right of the home screen (aka hamburger) -> Settings -> Accessibility -> check 'Force enable zoom'.

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Wakenbake 8 points ago +8 / -0

Seconded

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Dialectic 3 points ago +3 / -0

I’m zooming just fine on brave.

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pastaroni [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

Weird. I am using brave... ?

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Dialectic 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah I’m not sure then. I’m on brave and pinch zooming every 4 seconds so my blind ass can read

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scyenceFiction 3 points ago +3 / -0

Weird. I never lost the capability. As a thought... go into accessibility settings for your browser, there should be an option to override sites' zoom settings, for instance, in Brave:

Three dot context menu at the bottom right of the home screen (aka hamburger) -> Settings -> Accessibility -> check 'Force enable zoom'.

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pastaroni [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

Hey thank you for that!

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scyenceFiction 2 points ago +2 / -0

YW.... did that fix it?

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pastaroni [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

It did, and I️ can zoom in either further than previously. Thanks!

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Redd_Roostet 1 point ago +1 / -0

My concern is that this was an effort to raise the conversion rate (or cluck count) rather than for some technical reason.

@doggos, please consider reverting this" feaure".

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Doggos 7 points ago +7 / -0

It was due to some browsers (Apple, as always) deciding to zoom on their own accord. The inability to manually zoom is a side effect that I will look at fixing.

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pookiee68 3 points ago +3 / -0

Outstanding response time. Good Doggos! Treat?

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Redd_Roostet 1 point ago +1 / -0

Awesome! Thanks so much!

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Jackno8d 1 point ago +1 / -0

Try a new browser, Brave is based.