Text chat window gone all narrow in centre of scre...

have i pressed something or is it a glitch? have restarted mac but still i have a narrow chat window in centre of main window
like this
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I have to admit, this setting could be a lot clearer…
To change the width of text displayed in the chat history, hover your cursor over the left of right of the input field, like this:

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