anyone else feels like the new site is way too big? like the sections in it. Like if the FOV of a video game is set at like 60 instead of 90. it feels zoom-in and if i try to manually zoom out it looks like crap. it Seriously eye strains me.

Yeah everything just seems way bigger than it was before. There's also a lot of issues with elements looking like they were scaled up without being modified to work well while scaled up, for example:

https://i.tonyfox.ws/1583457741.png (search button wraps to new line)

https://i.tonyfox.ws/1583457693.png (blacklist help text wraps to new line)

https://i.tonyfox.ws/1583457638.png (search help text looks out of place being so big)

https://i.tonyfox.ws/1583457873.png (lots of wasted space because the logo is so big, and also it looks unstyled)

The worst offense is the profile page. Uploads and favorites listed vertically instead of horizontally? There's SO MUCH dead space now, and I have to scroll just to see anything. Also, I hate that the comments pages no longer show what the score of a given comment is. The new e621 is definitely a downgrade, not an upgrade. I wish there was a setting/option to go back.

I'm definitely not a coder of the site, so feel free to slap me if I'm talking out of my ass:

The old site was a crappy codebase with piles of quick fixes; it worked, but stuff was slow and pretty suboptimal. Most importantly though, every update was a tiptoeing hell of not breaking working features around you.

The new site has a sound codebase, and stuff is being done properly; features tangle into eachother minimaly, and updates should be a lot easier.

Tl;dr stuff's pretty basic right now, but it'll be better in the long run.

distantwanderer said:
anyone else feels like the new site is way too big? like the sections in it. Like if the FOV of a video game is set at like 60 instead of 90. it feels zoom-in and if i try to manually zoom out it looks like crap. it Seriously eye strains me.

Ironically, this is despite the fact that you can only have 250 posts per page max now as opposed to 330 previously

On PC I set up brower scaling to 130% and then it feels fine.

you could try going to the custom CSS section in your account settings and adding a rule like:
:root {font-size : 90%;}