Just got an update from the team behind the team at Gaslamp Ball and SB Nation. The following updates have been made based on your feedback:
- We tweaked the brightness/contrast on the green for rec'd comments and the yellow on new comments so that they would be easier to distinguish.
- We adjusted the size of the fonts and the line spacing
- We adjusted the padding on the comments

In addition, the next round of on the fly updates:
- Improving load times
- Streamlining the mobile experience
- Improving the experience in IE 8
- Tightening up layout of articles so that comments are closer to content
- Overall individual site navigation issues
- Lots and lots of other bugs and tweaks

So keep it up with the feedback. The guys are working hard at it.