I know that some people complained about the Discourse forum background being “too white” but I had no problem with that. At least it was readable. This new beige background is nauseating. Combined with light gray text color lacks contrast, making it difficult to read.
Is there a way for an individual user to change this back? I don’t think I can live with this color - hate to say it, but if there is no workaround, this is bad enough to drive me off the forum for good.
Don’t like the new background either. The other one was too white of course, but maybe it just needed thin black lines running all the way down both sides of the posts to offset the blinding whiteness. Or maybe if it was just a teeny bit off-white towards gray.
I’m getting used to the new background color, though I can’t say that I like it much. It is a BIG relief though to have the black colored fonts again - the low-contrast gray was unreadable.
For people displeased with the Solarized color scheme, is it that you object to any background color besides white (or gray)? Otherwise, what other color scheme do you think would work better?
This is the same color that I prefer when reading on my phone via Google Books. I like it because it’s not too intense on the eyes like white is. It’s supposed to closely resemble the paper used in novels (AFAIK).
However, I agree with @Idoloclast about preferring sans sarif (for online/electronic devices, at least). But I like sarifs in printed documents/books. Not sure why.