Taking a screenshot and zooming in with a pixel grid, the 'i' on comedian is antialiased to 3 pixels in total wide, though the 2 on the side are very light. Firefox is 2 pixels wide, but both columns are dark. Chrome is also 2 pixels wide, but the columns are rather lightly colored.
(Windows' native font antialiasing is amazing, I'm sad all apps don't use it...)
Anything of those could be making it legible. I'd rather trust the opinion of somebody with a more standard system, and I doubt the GP is that somebody either.
It's funny, I've hardly ever used that thing. Like a dummy I forget it's there, and instead I go in and hack the CSS (mostly removing styles) and then post sarcastic comments about it.
But you're right, I just clicked the Luxo lamp and the whole page became perfectly readable.
And then I dragged the Luxo lamp over to the left where my most-used extensions are, so I'll remember it next time.
Thanks for the tip!
One problem here might be that you're applying the standard of in-person conversation where it doesn't apply, at least not without modification. Interpreting my response, and that of users flagging, as "uptight" is a similar confusion. In person we'd all just laugh at the friendly joke and respond in kind. But the conditions are quite different here, as measured by how frequently such comments turn into brawls, and if we want to keep this place going for thoughtful conversation, we need standards that work on the internet.
I am like a politician waffling and flip-flopping as the polling winds blow to and fro.
Hmm... Chicken and waffles sounds pretty good right now!
If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like.
If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think unreadable text with substandard font-weight is a good thing.
Of course, being AIs, maybe they could care less.