diff --git a/app/static/js/main.js b/app/static/js/main.js
index da300e21e..84c911f0e 100644
--- a/app/static/js/main.js
+++ b/app/static/js/main.js
@@ -41,8 +41,15 @@ document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
 	    localStorage.setItem("theme", "light");
       }
     });
-    // this doesn't really work to prevent focus grabbing by etherpad.
-    document.getElementById("mini-cli").focus();
+
+    // icky but I'm not above this.
+    // this is to work around etherpad grabbing focus.
+    var element = document.getElementById("mini-cli");
+    setTimeout( function() { element.focus() }, 1000 );
+    setTimeout( function() { element.focus() }, 2000 );
+    setTimeout( function() { element.focus() }, 3000 );
+    setTimeout( function() { element.focus() }, 4000 );
+    setTimeout( function() { element.focus() }, 5000 );
 });
 
 function processSettings(args){
diff --git a/app/templates/stoa.html b/app/templates/stoa.html
index 87376ae97..b13d67b17 100644
--- a/app/templates/stoa.html
+++ b/app/templates/stoa.html
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <span class="stoa-header">Stoa for [[{{node.uri}}]] ↓</span><br />
         <div class="stoa-public">
             <span class="subnode-header">from <a href="https://stoa.anagora.org/p/{{node.uri}}">stoa.anagora.org/p/{{node.uri}}</a></span><br />
-            <iframe name="embed_readwrite" src="https://stoa.anagora.org/p/{{node.uri}}?showControls=true&showChat=true&showLineNumbers=true&useMonospaceFont=false" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>
+            <iframe name="embed_readwrite" src="https://stoa.anagora.org/p/{{node.uri}}?showControls=true&showChat=true&showLineNumbers=true&useMonospaceFont=false" width="100%" height="800" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         </div>
     </div>
 </div>