[QUOTE=Liberal]
I’m fairly sensitive to light, so it may be completely my fault.
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Then it might be a plan to turn down your brightness and contrast. I rarely have mine higher than half and they’re usually even lower. I promise you I’m seeing no white - everything that’s not blue or black is light grey.
At some point shortly after a board upgrade or restore from backup in the past, there was a dropdown box available for choosing the skin/theme - IIRC there were only two themes available (something like ‘SDMB’ and ‘SDMB Modified Blue’) and one of them didn’t work properly.
Dunno why I bothered mentioning that.
In any case, it couldn’t be that hard to implement a few choices here - especially if they’re just tweaks to colours, leaving the graphical elements alone.
OTOH, the colouring of this board is almost a trademark, so that might be a reason not to change it.
[QUOTE=Lynn Bodoni]
The suggested color scheme would be just about impossible for me to read.
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I understand. That’s why I used the plural: alternative color schemes. Not everyone is alike.
Me too, but light text on a dark background would be just as contrasting.
Then you’re fortunate that the default color scheme suits you. I’m happy for you.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
OTOH, the colouring of this board is almost a trademark, so that might be a reason not to change it.
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Nothing would change unless you changed it for yourself. The reasons to offer a choice, however, seem self-evident.
At one point we did have some alternate schemes but they went away in an upgrade and we have not been able to reinstitute them.
Okay. Well, that’s that, I reckon. Might as well close this baby and let it sink. Thanks for listening. 
Well, I thought it was a good idea anyway.