Posted on 01/07/2026 10:58:31 PM PST by OL Hickory
On my phone if I hold it straight up and down I cannot see free republic. The font size is too small. But if I flip it over and the phone is now east and west the font is big enough that I can scroll comfortably. Was this done on purpose?
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That’s why I don’t use my phone for stuff I want to be able to read/comment on...fitting the site onto a screen that is portrait when the site is designed for landscape tends to make things smaller.
Yep, my17” landscape PC monitor has NO trouble with this.
That is what PCs are for.
Exactly!
Same here. 4 months ago was the first time FR went cattywumpus while reading on the phone. Mine is Android.
With the little web page knowledge I have, it seems like it should be an easy fix to set this site to be “responsive” and a few other settings that absolutely used to be enabled here.
If Chris needs help there any number of trustworthy FReepers who would be glad to sort this out. I live with one of them.
Fortunately I also have a desktop which I much prefer using for any web viewing on any site or search.
So, it’s not just you, it is all of us.
Cheers :)
It is not about "PRETTY". It is about being readable. Maintenance and infrastructure should be able to manage that.
yea freepers have been bitching for months.
this finally happened to me around 3 weeks ago on both android phones using brave and chrome.
Doesn’t seem like the admin really cares about this prob..
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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A couple years ago the font on the phone became unreadably small only for Free Republic. I don’t want to increat font size because every other website would show only one character at a time. Now the desktop version just did the same thing. :(
“The money is used to keep FR running. Not make it pretty.
I can no longer tell if it’s pretty or not because it’s too small to see. And yesterday it just shrank again. This site is like Alice in Wonderland.
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