User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-3508553-20140929143428

Okay, so, personally I think that the beta navigation bar is inventive and a neat idea. Here are some of the things that I like about it:
 * I enjoy the fact that the search bar is "central" to the screen, which means I no longer have to scroll to the top of the wiki page in order to search for something.
 * The fact that I can search this wikia or all of wikia, is even nicer; so far I haven't had any problems with searching all of wikia! c:
 * The Wikia drop down tab is really nice, and seems to add quite a bit more than the old drop down tabs used to have.
 * The fact that the notifications seems to work better, with keeping messages up to date is nice, I used to gravely dislike having to deal with old messages popping up.
 * The start a wikia button is certainly up there, and on the opposite side from where it used to be, but it's a nice change.

Here are some of the things I wouldn't mind seeing changed, but can live with if they don't get changed:


 * The wikia drop down tab is huge! It takes up quite a bit of my 1200x760 PX (give or take a few px) sized computer screen. I think that it could be stretched out or widened just a bit, so that it isn't as tall.
 * Maybe make the tabs be at the top of the drop down window, so that the drop down doesn't have to be as tall; just a thought, but it would most likely mean losing the neat arrows to tell you what tab your on!
 * On the user drop down tab, I personally don't think that it should take you to your user page unless you click on your avatar.
 * Still on the user drop down tab, I think that the notifications box, that opens up upon scrolling over "all notifications", should be two times wider than what it already is, that way you can have two rows of messages, one for messages not on this wiki, and the other for messages on the wiki that you're currently viewing the messages pane from. Or, possibly the messages could just have two rows so that the panel isn't as long/tall.
 * If having two rows for different messages isn't plausible, or even two rows so that the messages panel isn't as long/tall; the panel could possibly be changed so that it only allows you to see three messages with the rest being in a overflow-y.

Comments:
 * Search this wikia and Search all of wikia, is going to take a little bit of time to get used too, however I could agree that being unique is a good thing!