Yes, so far the remedies and responses have been great. Thank you. I would also ask that threads turn green again, as they did on GW, each time a new reply is posted. That was very helpful.

Is the contrast improved today or is it just me?

IMO, the color behind the posts is better than the stark white but with a larger monitor, there's still a LOT of white there and it's hard on the eyes. It would be great if something could be worked out about that.

Evenshade, Chrome and Opera have extensions that allow you to change the background colour and the type colour. Chrome is Changing Colors and Opera is Theme-Up extension. Firefox has NoSquint add-on to do the same thing. I have my pages green with black printing and the read posts turn red. So much easier on the eyes! Here's a sample