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Ask HN: How often do you zoom in to read text on your screen?

4 points by ajdoingnothing ↗ HN
For example, I have zoomed in 250% @ Hacker News to relax my eyes. As a matter of fact, I have zoomed in on most of the websites I visit, including Google.. The same goes for when I code or write text... The font size is too small for me - I can read the text on normal settings, but it's just too much eye strain. I get funny comments from my co-workers who say that the Google logo and text look too big.

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a3n
Often. First choice is reader view, which gets rid of most "elegant" impediments to reading. If not available, then zoom. Or sometimes landscape.
PaulHoule
In and out all the time depending
beforeolives
I don't zoom in and out but now I keep some sites on 110% zoom all the time.

For some reason my vision has considerably deteriorated over the past year. Once noticeably in the first couple of months of the pandemic and then I had another significant change for the worse in the past couple of months.

axegon_
Hardly ever to be honest, with HN being the one exception where I'm constantly at 175%.
atsaloli
All the time! I'm at 200% right now, on HN. Too much eye strain otherwise. My vision got worse during the pandemic. I think I'm spending more time in front of my screen. I'm trying to take breaks but it's easy to just keep rolling.
cblconfederate
I use a low-resolution widescreen for the same reason. Zoom almost every site. Are there really people who can read in high density screens?