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Sorry for the eye-strain; I switched it from #777 to #444 just now, so hopefully there's a marginal improvement.

My scraper isn't currently set to get that deep, but the most upvoted per time period is a good idea that I'll look into.

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It's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles.

http://i.imgur.com/mnuFK.png

Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.

I've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.

Still no good on Chrome. Remove Lato from body font.

Right! Just by removing "Lato" font in body {} and no more configuration, "Hevetica Neue" looks very nice to me.

Yes, oh god, yes, this. It looks perfect in Helvetica Neue.

No noticeable change (still cannot read it).

fwiw, very hard for me too (I am astygmatic), at +1 zoom it's better

The site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl

Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?

Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color?

Short of that, cool site. It'd be nice to see how many comments are on a submission, and if clicking 'comments' didn't load a new tab.

pls change the contrast..its still very hard to read..I dont know how you have been reading it

Are you scraping the site directly? Have you heard of the official api? http://www.hnsearch.com/api

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