this site looks kind of bland without post thumbnails. Even if they have to get pulled from an image in a text post, that should still happen. the page looks so bland and ugly without much color
While that may be true this site, at least from what I've garnered, focuses on the content of the site/article/what-have-you rather than a catchy thumbnail. By all means post a link to a picture but give some explanation behind it or bring up something to discuss. Granted I have difficulties at time doing this but in the end what this brings is quality topics to the site and quality discussion. And just to note I love the minimalism feel, no clutter.
You can go in your settings and change the theme. I like dark. Spring gives green on both sides. Not bad, I might switch to that.and ugly without much color