# Is it just me, or are chat boxes now forcibly larger? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630 "2019-11-13T00:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Right](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/marcus_right/32/163815_2.png) [@Marcus\_Right](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Marcus_Right)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/1 "2019-11-13T00:00:59Z")
It seems like I can’t make chat boxes as small as I used to be able to. Why force larger chat boxes upon people? I could always have made them larger if I wanted to. Forcing a larger sized chat box on people doesn’t seem like something that needed to be done, and I don’t like it. I looked through UI options in settings, I didn’t change anything before today… but I wonder, is it only me? Or is this some new feature or bug CCP introduced in the last patch or so? ---
**Author:** ![Oreb\_Wing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/oreb_wing/32/170827_2.png) [@Oreb\_Wing](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Oreb_Wing)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/3 "2019-11-13T00:24:09Z")
A result of the new change to make more text visible by default. Not being able to shrink it was probably an unintended consequence. ---
**Author:** ![Oreb\_Wing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/oreb_wing/32/170827_2.png) [@Oreb\_Wing](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Oreb_Wing)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/4 "2019-11-13T00:27:04Z")
“Expanded the Chat Window so that you can see many more messages by default” Text about it in the November patch notes under User Interface changes. 1st paragraph, 4th bullet point down. ---
**Author:** ![Buoytender\_Bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/buoytender_bob/32/374377_2.png) [@Buoytender\_Bob](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Buoytender_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/5 "2019-11-13T00:31:29Z")
Appears that few people read either the patch notes or feedback before complaining…but, these are the official EVE forums, so…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oreb\_Wing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/oreb_wing/32/170827_2.png) [@Oreb\_Wing](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Oreb_Wing)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/6 "2019-11-13T03:59:28Z")
> [@November Release - Known Issues](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/november-release-known-issues/200497/7): > > This was unintentional, we’re working on a fix, sorry for the inconvenience! Update: Fix is in, we’ll be deploying it at the earliest convenience (hopefully tomorrow but if not it will be Thursday) ---
**Author:** ![Jitath](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jitath/32/172700_2.png) [@Jitath](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jitath)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/7 "2019-11-13T10:14:05Z")
Well at least that explains why I was looking at my layout last night and thinking, “what the hell have I done to make my boxes overlap my icons, and I can’t make them smaller, arrrghhhh what have I done” Good to know it was not me. ---
**Author:** ![Compo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/compo/32/167680_2.png) [@Compo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Compo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/8 "2019-11-13T19:42:22Z")
![newCCP](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/3/9/39208188af3941b974dc83bb9136f391ed0dfee3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-are-chat-boxes-now-forcibly-larger/200630/9 "2020-02-11T19:42:27Z")
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