I agree with you, the white background is very difficult on the eyes. My other problem is with the print. It looks grey instead of black. If I had a way of changing Arial Black as you can on the reply section as you can see, my problem would disappear. Even changing the font size helps a bit, but a darker color like this or the arial black is best. Really like this blue. Wish I knew how to get the board messages in this color.
Most boards have the default look and then half a dozen different ones that you can change too. I believe they should be able to get the code for that. People like different things and having a list to choose from on the backgrounds should be available, it is Windows.