Looks promising, thanks for these changes. I still can’t use it until the interface scale bug I reported a few months ago is fixed though, it’s way too huge on my phone screen.
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The discussion is about the font size being too big on the iOS Discourse Hub app. darkpixlz reported the issue, sharing screenshots for comparison, and noted that the app is not respecting their system zoom setting. MarcP and tobiaseigen didn’t experience the issue, but tobiaseigen later reproduced it by changing their Safari zoom level. darkpixlz explained that the issue occurs on all sites and that the PWA respects the system zoom setting, while the app does not. Firepup650 suggested setting the font size smaller in Discourse itself as an alternative, which darkpixlz found partially helpful. tobiaseigen agreed that the app should respect the system zoom setting and noted that changing the font size in Discourse is a possible workaround. The issue is considered a bug in the app, and pmusaraj may investigate further.
I don’t have this issue at all, why don’t u select a different theme? I’m using default and it’s fine..
What is your system zoom set to? Could be perspective.
I think I made this comment before but you are not supposed to use desktop mode on mobile, it’s not designed for mobile screens ![]()
This looks fine to me, I’m not sure what the issue is at this point. If you want bigger text, increase your iOS font size.
My issue is that it’s way more zoomed in on the hub app unlike the PWA because the app isn’t respecting my system zoom setting (which is smaller than the default). I want the hub app to scale down as per my settings, not have the PWA scale up.
I moved the discussion about font size on iOS Discourse Hub to its own topic so hopefully it can be resolved here.
I have an iphone too and don’t see the problem @darkpixlz is describing and has screenshotted above.
What theme do you have selected in the sidebar, for meta?
yes it is.
Ah, ok. I was hoping you were stuck on an experimental theme on dev.
Do you also have this same problem on other sites?
yes it is.
Try setting it to something like 75-50 (or 150)%, then open the PWA and hub app and you’ll see my problem. The PWA respectc the setting while the app does not.
also yeah it’s happening on every site, devforum.roblox.com pictured bc i happened to have it on a pwa
OK.. I can see now that in safari, the zoom level changes while in the hub app the zoom level does not change.
I guess this is a bug in the app that @pmusaraj can take a look at?
Or maybe it’s a limitation of how apps like this work. I also noticed that when I installed the hub app on my laptop the font size is fixed at a too-small-to-be-usable zoom level.
Or maybe it’s a limitation of how apps like this work
I’m not sure how the app is made but it should be respecting the setting if it was rendering directly with a safari API? I haven’t done any iOS dev so I’m just kinda making things up but I’d assume that’s how it’s meant to work.
I also noticed that when I installed the hub app on my laptop the font size is fixed at a too-small-to-be-usable zoom level.
If it’s a Mac I’d assume you can just command(? i’m not a mac user) plus-minus to change the zoom like on normal websites
Couldn’t you set the font size smaller in Discourse itself as an alternative? I usually have mine set to “Smaller”.
IMO if an app respected a browser setting I’d personally get annoyed because that app isn’t my browser
If it’s a Mac I’d assume you can just command(? i’m not a mac user) plus-minus to change the zoom like on normal websites
You would think so but this does not work.
Couldn’t you set the font size smaller in Discourse itself as an alternative? I usually have mine set to “Smaller
Well discovered! Now that is thinking outside the box!
IMO if an app respected a browser setting I’d personally get annoyed because that app isn’t my browser
Agreed.










