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So semi-recently a sidebar has been showing up on the side of posts showing stats and stuff about the topic, this is good and all except for the fact that I hate it, lol. This is the side bar I'm talking about so we're all on the same page Alright, now the reason I hate this is because I am visually impaired, allow me to explain. I frequently read stories on the story section of the site, however because I'm visually impaired the default size of the text is too small for me to read comfortably. Usually I just zoom the page in to make the text more readable, which worked perfectly, until this sidebar showed up. Here's an example of the page zoomed in with the sidebar: Notice how the text is all smooshed together and kinda ackward to read? Now here's the exact same page zoomed in the exact same amount with the sidebar forcibly removed via an adblocker This is actually readable and the text is the size I'd expect it to be. Now you might be thinking, alright problem solved, just run the adblocker with the sidebar removed. That would work perfectly, except the adblocker removes far more than just that sidebar, it removes all sidebars along with a bunch of other features of the site. I could enable and disable the adblocker manually, which is what I've been doing, but I figure since this is an accessibility issue that I might aswell explain my issue here and maybe something will come of it. I'm not familiar with the forum software and how much of it is customizable but here are some theoretical solutions I've thought of. 1. Being able to turn off the sidebar on actual posts and not the main page (similar to how you can toggle signatures) 2. Being able to click a button to remove the sidebar for posts and not the main page 3. making the statistics sidebar on posts removed by default with an option to expand them with a click of a button. (I don't think most people actually benefit from the stats sidebar being shown by default anyway) So yeah, there's my 2cents about the new-ish statistics sidebar added to more popular posts.
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