Some time ago, I complained about too much text contrast. Now we have opposite problem, the text in the posts seems as if it was grayed out. I don’t think we should compensate one extreme with an opposite extreme. Not using 100% white for the text is a good readability design guideline to follow, but it doesn’t have to be medium gray either.
This is what we have now:
This is what we had before:
This is a sane medium I’d expect:
Anyway, it’s still an improvement over the retina burning white. Now, if we just get the old homepage with categories and latest posts on the same page, I’ll be more or less happy (the cluttered theme aside). Most of my horizontal screen space on the homepage is wasted anyway:
