GitHub used to have something like grey on dark blue in its dark theme. And it is nearly unreadable.

Fortunately, they changed it to some sane color.

https://userstyles.org/style_screenshots/199552_after.png?r=...

I used to make user style just to make it readable. The top right is the original color of GitHub dark theme, and left bottom is the one I modified.

Someone set the color must forget how srgb works. #808080 is not half of the light level. It's about 1/3.

Yeah it's rgb(238, 225, 243) which is, IMO, pretty close to ... grey

Yea, it's annoying. Medium does not allow the author to pick the text color. Believe it or not, this combo was the best contrast. Medium's fischer price CMS is really weak in this area.

The article was published April 1st... I am thinking this was intended to be a joke, as this is the first thing I noticed, breaking it's own rules for "clarity of text".

It's Medium's CMS. Author has no control over the text color, and I've been experimenting with combinations trying to find something useful. An effort in futility. I'm planning on moving my articles to my own site... then... then this went viral. OMG. The true irony.

you have issues with your display/eyesight, if you see there white, beause it's pink

Yep! Even hex colors are misleading these days..