Wow, I like the fancy new look of the Lurk Report! 
As mentioned by others, I also found that the grey was hard to read. But it's kind of fun that way, too.
It reminds me of an old game called Omega Race I used to play on the Commodore 64. You fly around in a little fighter and shoot down alien robots and ships. There was a settings menu to change the colors of the background and foreground. Normally, it's white ships on black background, but my friend and I had fun changing the colors so that it's something like greenish light brown on brownish green, so that everything was really hard to see. We took turns changing the colors for each other, and we kept adjusting it so that the ships were even harder to see with each game! The good old days...