I think the whole site set-up is wrong. The text in postings is too pale. The whole thing is sprawling and faded looking. The font doesn't bother me too much. I hope the forum and all of GW is a work in progress because I'm not enjoying it.

Shel, the titles of the posts are pretty big. Can you enlarge on your computer so everything is bigger for you?

Socks, I agree with you, the fonts are too pale. That's what I meant, not the size.

I'm using the 2-bar icon (next to Latest Activity), which shows the photo attached to the first post in a thread and also gives me a glimpse of each thread's last post. The downside is that increases the white space and decreases the number of threads visible on the screen.

I don't mind the font, but the grey color and white background are becoming increasingly hard on my eyes. Not good.

They don't appear to be concerned about fixing the pale transparent font. Jo ann, I'm not sure what you are saying? We all are seeing a very pale almost see through font. It's not the font style that's an issue..it's the fact that it's not very dark.

Would you consider using Chrome as your browser?

You can install the Change Colors extension and have it set so that This site has a different background colour with black type-face. I have GW/Houzz set as a blue background with black type, and it's easy to read. The posts that I have opened/read are in red, and the new posts dark blue.

You can over-ride the extension so that it doesn't turn ALL of your sites blue, just the ones you choose. I only have it set for GW.

It's terrible, people are complaining on multiple forums begging for a darker more substantial font but there's no change. For those on a pc there are options for you to change but for those of us on tablets we are stuck with this hard to read super light font and it's a killer to my eyes. I guess they don't care about all the people who use mobile devices and none of them are older with eye sight problems. My only option is to go to night view where the text is white and the background is dark, not appealing. My screen brightness is literally on zero it doesn't go lower. I have been hoping that since they have been making changes they would hear us about this extremely important problem. They could easily just darken it to the color of the word houzz up on the top left that would be perfect, they did darken the name of the poster on the main pages. So why not here where we need it most. I don't get it. We are not an audience of tenny boppers with perfect young eyes, cater to your demographic!

Joann if it was as dark as your example it would be great, unfortunately it's no where near it.

raven exactly, we are an older crowd!

Wouldn't a dark black font be harsher against the white? I don't have any issues reading it but I agree if people are having issues or straining their eyes, it needs to be fixed.

A blacker/bolder font is much easier to see than a see through font. Think of this way, if you pick up a book to read, what does the type look like? It isn't see through that's for sure. It's a bold black type print, easy to see on a page of white paper.

It hurts my eyes too. But I've tried to darken/thicken the print for a long time. Sometimes it gets darker when I make the print bigger but, as ravencajun said, I'm on a PC and its easier to make adjustments.

Have any of you tried any of the add ons that make viewing a bit easier? I just installed 'No Squint' for my Firefox browser and set the color of text to black and the background to coral. I'll probably switch back, but see if this looks better to you.

@Jasdip, I added the change colors extension to my Chrome and it does not seem to be working that well for me. But it looks like there are a lot of change color extensions available. Which one are you using?

@PKponderTX, I like the way No Squint works for you. When I use "change color" for Chrome it only changes the color of the outer edges or main background and not the background behind the font. I did not see a No Squint for Chrome. Maybe I need to download Firefox.

I'm happy with Stylish add on for FF. I use one of the choices for GW that's provided. The third one down the list, there are only four choices so far. You can change the font, the font size and the background colors. Of course you will need to do a google search for the code numbers to change colors though. The default colors are fine but I changed the font to 16 and have FF set to 120% size. Default font size is 14, you can make it as big as you like I guess.