The new codeplex metro theme seems to heavily use light grey text on a white background.  I am having a very difficult time reading the site now and I have pretty good eye sight.

Thanks for the feedback! We're looking into the contrast issues that users have been reporting.

We just pushed out an update to the text. Is it any better for you?

are you dumb?

I mostly like the fresh new look, but I agree there is a huge problem with the text. All the text looks a bit like bad ClearText rendering, and hurts my eyes!

The text update has improved it a little bit, but the font weight or color or rendering options still leaves it very light, making reading noticeably unpleasant compared to StackOverflow or GitHub. 

Please keep working on it - there is a real problem but it's probably not hard to fix.

its harder than you think, once they try to change something, it's worse

Either the contrast or my eyes are much better now. Thank you!