The forum is designed to be responsive and scale correctly so the normal browser zoom options should work fine for now but I do intend to add some preferences which may include font sizes.
There are a number of reasons why I am not including the number of views:
It's all lies
Seriously, most sites that show page views don't differentiate between a real user reading the page and one of the many, many bots that crawl the web. Only something like Google Analytics can really make that distinction.
Not only that but even the human-visitors are not all equal - did people really read the page or was it an accidental click or a bounce from a search engine result?
Is it 1 person viewing the page 10 times or 10 different people viewing it once each?
Is it 10 people who read the whole thing and were moved by the sentiment or 10 people attracted by a catchy headline that gave up after the first sentence?
Is it 4 people viewing a topic with 20 posts per page or 1 person viewing a 20-post topic with 5 posts per page?
All it really measures is how many times a URL is requested from the server and that is a bad measure for what you want it to mean and given the resources involved in tracking and updating the page view counts in a scalable manner it's simply not worth it right now while there are higher priorities.
What really matters? Is 1,000 people reading something and saying "meh" more or less of an achievement than 10 people reading something and 1 being moved? Simple 'read counts' don't tell the whole story. They do have some benefit but on their own they can be misleading and I think it's a mistake to focus on them.
The comments on a topic are a better measure of interest and engagement but I also want to augment that with other measures - number of shares on social media or email, number of watches / bookmarks etc... It may also be possible to hook into Google Analytics through an API to give more meaningful information on the views.
These should give better feedback than what is essentially just a hit counter.
