I agree, we need a different background than white... Baron could do here a vote with 5-6 colors and the most popular should stay... If he is unwilling to change it, here is the DIY method for yourself:
One out of twelve (8%) of men have some amount of color vision impairment. I am part of that 8%. The light green fonts and the light blue fonts on the forums list page are difficult for me to see well enough to easily read. If those light shades of green and blue were used for the post fonts, I would not be able use ET. I like the white background or the colors used in the previous classic view. Some color combinations of fonts and backgrounds are not see-able for some with color vision impairment.
I have heard other companies try out new or improved products with a select group of customers to get feedback before full roll out. I guess Baron really likes to surprise us, as well as himself...haha It sure gives us a sense of community... Where is the main page? If there is not going to be a main page, then we need to be able to select which forums we want to follow. Who has time to go through the whole list of forums every time we want to catch up with what's going on?
Make this page your ET go to page (bookmarked,stashed,speed dialed), the new posts: http://www.elitetrader.com/et/index.php?find-new/4036/posts
most of us are somewhat old folks, who doesn't like changes. any changes. specially-changes of something,that worked well in the past. not sure about rest of the crowd,but i'm certainly going to visit ET much less after that.