Today, I’d like to announce the first update to stikis since submitting my PhD thesis (woohoo!). That news probably deserves a blog-post of its own, so straight to the business at hand.

I have tweaked the zoom levels a little. Previously, pages would zoom to 8%, 16%, 32%, 64%, 100%, and 160%. There were a couple of problems with this.

• There were more settings than needed. It only really needs three settings, one for focusing on a single stiki, one for arranging several stikis, and one for getting a big overview.
• It felt slow to zoom out or in, because you needed to zoom through several presets.
• Text was unreadable at 64% or less, so the majority of settings weren’t much use.
• The numbers are a little difficult to remember (unless you’re into powers of two).

So the new zoom levels are (drum-roll please) 20%, 100%, and 200%. They don’t correspond directly to the old zoom scales because I moved the underlying zoom level up a bit. 100% is actually the same as 70% before.

That probably all sounds pretty confusing. Hopefully, most people won’t need to notice or worry about it.

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