# The Incredible Shrinking Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 1, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808 "2001-07-01T04:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/1 "2001-07-01T04:42:23Z")
Is it just me or did the fonts on this board get smaller just now? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/2 "2001-07-01T04:44:52Z")
[sub][sup]It’s just you[/sub][/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/3 "2001-07-01T18:10:43Z")
What they said. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/4 "2001-07-01T18:45:06Z")
Check your browser settings. You can adjust the size of the text to suit yourself. In IE, click “View” and then “Text Size” to change the setting. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/5 "2001-07-01T22:51:24Z")
Click “View”, and then either “Increase Font” or “Decrease Font”. Note: Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[ do the same as the above, respectively, like in Word. You might have hit one of those accidentally. \*v4.6 ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/6 "2001-07-01T23:48:31Z")
Or CTRL + scrolling the wheel on the mouse = font size change. I do that accidentally sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/7 "2001-07-02T01:45:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\*Or CTRL + scrolling the wheel on the mouse = font size change. I do that accidentally sometimes. \*\* Thats probably what I did. I was probably scrolling down, typing aimlessly, and suddenly the type shrunk. I checked the browser settings and they didn’t change. I opened a second window and the type was normal, so I go all excited over nothing. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/8 "2001-07-02T03:34:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\*Or CTRL + scrolling the wheel on the mouse = font size change. I do that accidentally sometimes. \*\* I did not know that. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/9 "2001-07-02T13:00:56Z")
Wow, thank you very much! It does not affect the font when I am typing a reply (as I am right now), but I can read the rest of the page. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incredible-shrinking-dope/70808/10 "2001-07-02T13:09:05Z")
They’ve gone to a smaller font size because they have determined that doing so saves room on the server, thereby decreasing the load time of threads and making the members of this board happy indeed.