User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-5645428-20141023130257

It's good to see feedback being considered.

In regards to the size of the bar, "Shrink the overall height of the nav and tighten up the elements within" is the most practical solution. Personally, I find hiding it while scrolling kind of negates a key advantage over the current bar, especially with the search bar to be put on it. As mentioned in the post, though, being able to choose how it behaves would still be a welcome addition. Anyhow, 40px is what I think would be the ideal size. For the record, 35px is the size of the search bar above, and also the size of the current header bar.

The notifications need only one thing, their own dropdown menu as they do currently. It works without problem with no need to bury it inside another menu.

I would hardly call white, white and white a "visually consistent theme". Okay, it might be consistent, but does nothing stylish for "visual" and hardly counts as a "theme" than a "colour" (if even that). If a wiki is not choosing a predominantly white or contrasting black look, front-stationed white from the bar will stick out like a sore thumb, leading me to say at the very least, there should be an option to change its colour somewhere, be it the only thing you can change and only through the theme designer. If Wikia is really so persistent in branding that they ignore such an obvious design issue, it doesn't leave a particularly good impression.

I really do believe Wikia wikis are presently the best wikis as a result of their universal popularity and commitment, and that should not be disregarded. Of course, there is always room for improvement, and with the communities it has, should be primaily in the interest of those communities and not the brand name, because the users are the ones who make the brand name what it is.