I get that the low contrast is by design. Everything is by design, since someone once thought about everything. I don't want to be a dick about it, but texts with low contrast are almost never a good idea.

I agree with you but I would suggest that texts with thin fonts and low contrast are always a bad idea.

I agree on the thin fonts, but text with low contrast can sometimes be useful to indicate that an element is inactive or unused (e.g. <input disabled> in HTML).

I have to agree with zichy.

I started to scroll while reading, this led to the situation that the white type on whyit lens flare made it impossible to read further. I stopped right there.

I closed the tab and thought "well, for an old crap like me, who didn't grow up with tablets but with pen and paper, this will always be to slow, so why bother if they can't even get thy typo right." And without the impulse sent by zichy's comment, I wouldn't have bothered to let you know either.

Take ist for what it's worth.

Good luck!

Low contrast is a poor 'design decision'. You instantly cut of a percentage of your potential market by that design, such as myself. I have an eye condition that makes focusing difficult and your low contrast design makes pieces of your website completely illegible to me.

It's cool. It's creative. It's different. Things that do not often top you're typical Hacker Newsie's values list, but - hey - if making software's a means to an end I never understood why anyone would write code themselves anyways.

You created something, and that's rad. Yeah, if you're trying to sell out you're doing it wrong, but sometimes I wish I had marked up my soul a little higher back in the day.

It flickers and fails and stutters all over the place, but I'm in China, which tends to get a big ol' stick up in western people's "this will always load and will be pretty fast and reliable" wheel rather quickly.

I can't figure out how to use it at all, but I want to.

No offense intended, but you may want to start with WCAG 1.4.6 as a baseline. It's entirely possible to create a modern, compelling UI in conformance to basic accessibility guidelines.

I was planning to create an account to try, but if these will be the color - I think I am good with pen & paper.