I feel like this is a pretty simple suggestion, and maybe it's been suggested already, but I(and probably many other similarly photosensitive people) would really appreciate some sort of option to turn the blaring white parts of the site to something darker, as it'd be a lot easier on my eyes, and would make browsing the site less painful

There's a suggestion thread for this topic already here: Night Mode Please!

In the meantime, you can use custom CSS to change the background color, or use 's full night mode CSS from here: -Night Mode- Shengui Guo Custom CSS [v2.0]