As you probably have noticed, all text using DText (i.e comments, blips, wikis, and the forum) has had their font size increased to 16px.

This wasn't directly mentioned in the site change log, but instead rolled out as part of Mobile Fixes.

Cinder said:
1. Enhancing Readability
Increased the font size in DText to 16px. This is less ideal than changing the global font size, but a quick fix will do for now.
A larger project for updating the font size to a more reasonable one will be coming later.

This could probably easily be fixed with a custom CSS style, but I don't know CSS, so you will have to wait for someone else for that.

watching this space for someone to post a temporary fix :v

If it's a big problem for you:

.styled-dtext {
  font-size: unset;
}

in your advanced user settings -> custom css should get it back for you

thatfennec said:
watching this space for someone to post a temporary fix :v

Put this in your custom css:

.styled-dtext { font-size: unset }

But I've gotta tell you, font size is definitely getting increased across the site. Eventually.
14px is simply way too tiny.

cinder said:
But I've gotta tell you, font size is definitely getting increased across the site. Eventually.
14px is simply way too tiny.

Whatever this is is way too big, honestly. Especially in the code segments. It feels like I accidentally turned on a vision impaired setting (which ironically makes it harder for me to read). The custom CSS is a must for me. I hope the text isn't going to be blown up site-wide without an easy way to get it back to normal. Some text, like the tags and info on the side of posts, are already a tight fit, and I can't imagine increasing the size of that text will do it any favors.

watsit said:
Whatever this is is way too big, honestly. Especially in the code segments. It feels like I accidentally turned on a vision impaired setting (which ironically makes it harder for me to read). The custom CSS is a must for me. I hope the text isn't going to be blown up site-wide without an easy way to get it back to normal. Some text, like the tags and info on the side of posts, are already a tight fit, and I can't imagine increasing the size of that text will do it any favors.

Pretty much ditto, word for word. The increased font size actually makes the site noticeably harder for me to read on desktop.
I wasn't aware that e621 had a built in Custom CSS option, so I've fixed it for now thanks to Tarrgon. I'm used to sites requiring a plugin to run custom CSS.

Surely the logical solution would have been to just put a text size menu in the Themes section, right?

I hate it so much, but hey, I do not need squinting or glasses to read forums now.

watsit said:
Whatever this is is way too big, honestly. Especially in the code segments. It feels like I accidentally turned on a vision impaired setting (which ironically makes it harder for me to read). The custom CSS is a must for me. I hope the text isn't going to be blown up site-wide without an easy way to get it back to normal. Some text, like the tags and info on the side of posts, are already a tight fit, and I can't imagine increasing the size of that text will do it any favors.

this is 1rem (16px), which is the default text size.

I say "default" but I don't think it's very common to leave the text size at 1rem. I think most websites and smartphone apps will use .75-.875rem (12px-14px) for most text, I believe that .75 is what comments in YouTube's Android app use (that's .75 of what your system text size is, so, if you're using normal it's 12px if you're using small it's 9px).

Yeah, that was way too big. First time I've been annoyed enough to bother with a CSS script.
Please do not change this across the site, at least not on desktop. It should absolutely not be the default, even if CSS can fix it.
Realistically font size should be mostly handled by browser settings.
Admittedly, looking a bit closer this is just setting it to system default, it's just that very few sites actually do that, so smaller than system default is basically the default. Making it larger than what most sites do just means it requires per-site configuration instead of system wide.

I also want to say that on mobile giving div#page a margin and padding on the sides looks just very strange to me; sandwich of 3.5px of very dark blue, then 3.5px of dark blue, and then 3.5px of slightly less dark blue.

edit: also it means that images can't fill up the entire window without zooming in, which is silly.

dba_afish said:
I also want to say that on mobile giving div#page a margin and padding on the sides looks just very strange to me; sandwich of 3.5px of very dark blue, then 3.5px of dark blue, and then 3.5px of slightly less dark blue.

I found that if you add

body.resp div#page {margin: 0;}
body.resp div#page {
	padding-left: 0;
	padding-right: 0;
}

it fixes the margins and padding.

lancar said:
I found that if you add

body.resp div#page {margin: 0;}
body.resp div#page {
	padding-left: 0;
	padding-right: 0;
}

it fixes the margins and padding.

those don't need to be two separate rules, just

body.resp div#page { margin: 0; 
padding-left: 0; 
padding-right: 0; }

should be fine.

I've always wondered and now seems like a great time to ask!
Does Cinder do most of the coding here? Been seeing a number of
threads about changes with the site with peeps pointing to Cinder
as the coder. Is he the peep?

If so, My heart goes out to 'em like the peeps pointed to
keep the Escapist YouTube channel alive. Being the focal
point of any site change, Good or Bad, must be like being
a Lightning rod in a thunderstorm of Negativity, Dood. =P

notkastar said:
I've always wondered and now seems like a great time to ask!
Does Cinder do most of the coding here? Been seeing a number of
threads about changes with the site with peeps pointing to Cinder
as the coder. Is he the peep?

I am currently the primary developer. I've taken over the project two months ago, after Earlopain quit.
Donovan_DMC and Tarrgon are the main contributors, and they've done a substantial amount of work.
You can see who has done what in the changelog or on github.

cinder said:
I am currently the primary developer. I've taken over the project two months ago, after Earlopain quit.
Donovan_DMC and Tarrgon are the main contributors, and they've done a substantial amount of work.
You can see who has done what in the changelog or on github.

Whoooa~!
Didn't know e6 was an ongoing project! I've always thought
the site was more or less done already, But things are pretty
lively behind the scenes! And there are so many familiar names
helping you out too, I definitely didn't expect to see
Donovan DMC. And I thought the peep had enough on their
plate already. Thanks for getting back and clearing biz up,
really appreciate it, Dood! ◠‿◠)~★

notkastar said:
Whoooa~!
Didn't know e6 was an ongoing project! I've always thought
the site was more or less done already, But things are pretty
lively behind the scenes! And there are so many familiar names
helping you out too, I definitely didn't expect to see
Donovan DMC. And I thought the peep had enough on their
plate already. Thanks for getting back and clearing biz up,
really appreciate it, Dood! ◠‿◠)~★

Few modern websites are ever "finished", just perpetually moving from one state of release to another

thatfennec said:
Few modern websites are ever "finished", just perpetually moving from one state of release to another

Gotchaaa~★
Changing with tech, What peeps expect, or just in small ways to save you a sec.
Guess all sites change in their own small ways while staying the same.
^{Still waiting for the Alpha release of- well- any site =‿=)~★}

But seriously, Didn't notice it 'till you brought it up.
After looking into it a bit, You're totally right, Sites
seem to be in constant flux. In that case, I hope
the peeps keeping my favorite sites like this one
going have the best of intentions for 'em. And if not,
Find their way to someone who does, Excalibur style,
Dood!
╹‿╹)