Overall the new site is pretty slick but these forums are painful.

Light text on dark background is *very* hard to read and very quickly becomes fuzzy to the eye and gives headaches.  PLEASE change this to a lighter background with darker text.  I'm not making a threat but I just can't read forums that gives me a headache in less then 2 minutes and I can't read.

vBulliten gives an option of various forum "themes", how about this one?  So you can have this as your default theme but then give us an option for a better readability theme (that could actually be used on all of the Stardock forums).

Please once again get rid of the dark background and light/faint text.

So, if I read this forum and get a headache... that's an opinion? If I put a knife through my hand, is it also an opinion that I'm bleeding? Some things are not opinion. If I like the color scheme or not is an opinion. Getting headaches every time I read the site is a fact. Since it's been happening to several people who are long time posters here, it's clearly a problem.

If you're getting eye strain from normal use of a monitor, then either the monitor or the room lights aren't set up right. It's not supposed to happen from normal usage. I can code all day and be just fine, but can't stay here more then 5 minutes at once without using the Firefox layout kill trick to change the colors.

Except that we're talking about getting headaches from the text, not which shade of black we like more, and for that we got attacked. I don't know what's gotten into you lately Raven, but these tangents you go on are getting downright strange.

Except that, you know, the rest of us were talking about eye strain all along. Why you now say you were talking about something totally different is kind of baffling. Hell, it's in the FIRST LINE of the original post that it's about readability.

I'm looking at an addon called NoSquint right now: http://urandom.ca/nosquint/

Using it I've rewritten the color rules on the site so that it's black on white. It makes some things look downright silly, but it's pretty easy to read. Here's how my version looks now:

I guess it's not perfect to use an addon as a solution, but it *does* fix the problem. As a bonus, it's also got per-site zoom options, which for people who find the text too small also makes it an easy fix. It also remembers the setting on a per site basis.

You're calling me a Moron now! The peoples champion strikes again... lol. I would never have guessed you worked with computers all day, your social skills are so honed. No I've never had a problem with this colour scheme, but for the few 'Vocal' few who have, good luck, you're turned the text from a yellow to a muddy yellow.... power to the people!

I suspect your headaches Tridus are due to your stressed state here, rather than the text that most here read fine. Get out more, less time in front of screens, meet girls. Just Friendly advice!

Ok, that plugin totally rules.  It's so easy to use and there are other forums that have the same issue that I can now read without a headache.

Note, if you add *.elementalgame.com to the exceptions list then you can customize just the forums and the rest of the site will remain untouched.

Thank you very much for this plugin.

Thanks, Tridus. I still hope to see the site eventually be more readable without browser-tweaking, but life's really just a long chain of compromises, innit then?

Thanks! Major improvement over the first iteration. I still find the darker post background to be a bit too dark for my tastes but still a major improvement.

The reply box is unfortunately out of my control for the time being.

I've made a few more minor changes.  A hard refresh should update your CSS files.

Bara

It's definitely looking better, thanks for the hard work.