Any site that doesn't have the meta tag to scale correctly look huge on the iPads, especially on the 12.9".
It's pretty easy to see the difference. The forums have the tag, but the news pages don't.
Hell, I made a Shortcut to temporarily fix it: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/10cde99b3bf543269eebe10496f998a9
I actually use it other web apps such as shrinking down browser-based IDEs (codepen, codesandbox, etc.)
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
It's pretty easy to see the difference. The forums have the tag, but the news pages don't.
Hell, I made a Shortcut to temporarily fix it: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/10cde99b3bf543269eebe10496f998a9
I actually use it other web apps such as shrinking down browser-based IDEs (codepen, codesandbox, etc.)