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~InterstellarShadow Jan 5, 2013  Student General Artist
Hey, I recently got a new computer, with a lower resolution than my previous one, and I have issues adjusting to the different size of of the items on the site. So I often use the zoom feature on my browser, and it seems that for me, the optimal size of everything is 90% of the default. So I am suggesting that the site include an option for users to change the size of items on the site. I think that just doing it on a macro level would be good enough. If a user had a slider where he or she could change the general size of objects on dA, I think that that would satisfy my need.

Please comment if you like this idea.
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^ValaSedai Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
That could be pretty nice. I remember logging in on a friend's laptop once with a really high resolution and everything was so tiny that I constantly had to zoom...
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*Urus-28 Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I see your point, but I'm afraid of the server stress resulting of such option...
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~InterstellarShadow Jan 6, 2013  Student General Artist
What do you mean by the server stress? It'd just be a couple more bits of data built into the webpage request. When the user logs in, it would save a cookie with all of his or her settings to their disk, and that would be used to formulate the page requests to the servers.
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*Urus-28 Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's just that I remember the possibility of different DA interface with different style and colours. The result was the website unavailable several time a day due to this feature.
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~Someguyfromcrowd Jan 6, 2013  Student General Artist
Actually, I don't think it would cause any server stress at all. It'd be entirely client-side. The server would send the standard size of image to the client, which would then scale it down to the proper size (or leave it untouched for 100% scale).

I like the idea. It's relatively simple and has an actual purpose.
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*Urus-28 Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
If you say so... :shrug:
I'm not a specialist on this kind of subjects.
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~Someguyfromcrowd Jan 6, 2013  Student General Artist
I'm not too much of one either, but I'm pretty sure most of the work could be handled by the user (if my smidge of web design experience says anything).

Of course, knowing dA, touching the slider would cause an explosion.
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!prosaix Jan 5, 2013
Not everything should be customisable. That'd make too many options.
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~InterstellarShadow Jan 6, 2013  Student General Artist
I agree with that, however, this is a suggestions board. I find that I would like this to be an option, but if the grand majority of deviants wouldn't bother, and would be confused by such an option, that is up to the dA staff and CV's do decide.
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!prosaix Jan 6, 2013
No.
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