I deleted all the old replies back when I updated the plugin, since they were no longer current/useful and got in the way of finding the new info. I hate going to other forums and having to wade through pages of old, no-longer-relevant discussion to get a handle on the state of a download. 
The plugin resizes the font so that every line of the file can fit in the window, on the assumption that the lines won't be long (i.e. wrapped to 80 cols). Maybe the line-drawing symbols just don't look right at such a small size.
My status bar codes can be found here.