Didn't realize that. What machine are you reading it on? Looked ok on my Mac.
It's too light for me too. Mac, Firefox. It's probably readable in perfect conditions (indoors, low ambient light), but if you're tired or it's sunny it becomes uncomfortable.
We tested on chrome. That's a lesson.
Fixed.
Still tiny, moire pattern painful to read on non-retina Mac w/ Safari.
I checked Chrome, too; it's clearly less awful but not good.
I do the same thing to read heavily down voted posts on FR. (Morbid curiosity.)
Fixed now.
Thanks, huge improvement! Was using Chrome in Windows 7, on a rather old Dell monitor at work. After working on WCAG 2.0 compliance on my own sites I have ironically gotten more sensitive to poor contrast ratios everywhere.