I went back and forth between both for a couple months and I can assure you that the new design is much better. It looks overly subtle now, but after your eyes and brain get used to it, you'll think the blue one was hideous.

Hi Samuel, maybe you can post the CSS for the blue design to use with Stylebot, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm....

Or even better, a guide to the CSS classes so we can use customize and share our customizations using Stylebot. :)

This might be more work for you, but it's open source and tracked with git. You could find the old CSS and do it yourself.

For a future update, it might be nice to have styles be selectable/replaceable by the user (without client-side CSS mods).

I agree that the new styling a lot better with regards to positioning and sizing etc. but the colour scheme doesn't have enough contrast IMO. But I'll give it some time to get used to :)

There's less contrast now, and people with any vision trouble will have additional problems. In the before and after of the reading section, the items in the right-hand column aren't even visible at all. It's white on s super-light cream color. Author & designer both need to look at http://contrastrebellion.com/