OMG I am going BLIND with this new look! PLEASE REVERT!

Arial... the font is Arial 14pt

According to reliable sources (like this one http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-fa...sResults.shtml)
Arial can safely be assumed to be installed on 99.9% of computers - i.e. it's going to look pretty much as the designer intended and without any aliasing (jagged corners) or surprise font selections by the users computer.

I have no affiliation of any kind with BW but I'd have to wonder, do you know anything about design?

Look at the colours: light non-white text on a medium-dark background with a soft, simple, relatively large font and black borders... short of reading it all to you, what do you want them to do to make it easier for you?

Well i have finally had enough, i cannot use the forums anymore, they are giving me major head aches.

Can you post a picture? I don't see this effect at all.
Which browser are you using?

Well the post data is too spread out now (dunno whether it's right it's being optimised for smartphones, but whatever it's not nice.

But the colour contrast is plain horrible, it gives me eye-strain looking at it.

The black/grey background contrast isn't great enough, the brown highlight contrast isn't great enough from either, and the standard contrast of the (goldish) text colour isn't high enough from any of the above.

Which just adds up to a literal headache with any significant amount of time reading it.

Us : We all don't like the new look forums.
BW : ...
Us : Seriously, can you please give us the choice of the new or old?
BW : ...

Time passes

Us : What did the old ones look like again?

Or

Me : Argh I've gone forum blind!!!! What did the forums look like again?


(they do need to sort out the contrast a bit, it may only be some people, but it's not a "dislike" thing, the current combination is genuinely giving eyestrain)

So... just did some super simple cross-browser testing... it's messed up for Internet Explorer 6, IE7 and IE8. Looks mostly OK in IE9... Chrome isn't picking the right font either.... It's not broken in Safari though, looks quite good there, though I do see your point about the contrast in places being too subtle for such a broad audience (though I personally like it this way, I'm clearly in the minority here).

I'm basically having to highlight anything I'm reading in to white background with navy blue text to alieviate the eye strain.

Don't think I've ever had this problem with a forum scheme before.

I'm used to the big font now but still having trouble differentiating between light and lighter light.. like when you're trying to tell which page of a post you're on, or which posts have a new comment vs which don't. It's hard to explain. The little envelope symbol looks almost identical when it's read or unread.

New SWTOR site is great, much much better than the previous version.
If the whiners don't like it then they are free not to visit it, not to mention the fact the fact that it would make this forum a better place overall.