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Might want to bump the contrast up a bit. A tad difficult to read any of the text. Best of luck with the project.

100% agree. Obligatory http://contrastrebellion.com/

Yeah, cool idea and I get the whole 'night' vibe, but I stopped reading a sentence or two in because reading it was such a pita.

Yeah, definitely change the grey on grey text.

I'm really diggin the cyan and purple/overall aesthetic though.

I agree. I think there's some kind of Pavlovian thing going on here because I have cyan and purple syntax highlighting for the "funnest" elements of my code.

I cannot agree more strongly. MrAlmostWrong was being nice actually - the website is nigh unreadable at the current contrast. This is something that should be fixed now.

Reminds me of Heroku's homepage.

Noted. I have been thinking about that a lot, actually. Just wanted to get something out there quick to get some feedback and start soliciting people for interviews. I have a few ideas for the actual launch (which should be in a few weeks) that will probably include a lighter theme to make reading a lot better. Thanks for the input!

That change is not something you should be putting off for a few weeks. You're on HN right now, you've got a little buzz and some traffic, and changing the existing site to have lighter text would take less time than writing any of the comments you've made in this thread.

For reference, here's a photo of your site on my monitor: http://imgur.com/t1E8RCA

On the right it's not a flash but a reflection from a window.

After I seeing the page I was sure a comment like this would be on top. Maybe there should be a service for evaluating if the contrast on a website is enough to avoid every other "Show HN" discussion here turning into a thread about contrast issues.

As for this color scheme, it probably is easier to read in the night :)

I think unreadable websites entirely deserve not having their content discussed.

This particular one isn't such a bad case, though.

+1 for the contrast. I'm on the CalTrain and I can barely read any thing without holding my hand up to block the sun.

Agreed. The site looks great, and you do the whole "dark background" thing well. However, it just wont cut it to display any sort of textual content.

yeah I saw the page in one of my tabs, and said "waht is this crap?" and closed it only to find out in another tab that this page linked to that hideous site.

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