User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-162.253.24.61-20141205091311

Fire your devs, you wasted your money employing them. After that fire your think tanks who told you this was a good idea. Go back to the old system. Scrap the project and write off your fiscal loses in your tax report for this quarter. This is easily one of the worst UI changes I've seen. Now this will just sound like flaming if I don't explain the problems so:

1. It demands full visual attention on a page via white. White utilizes all the colors in the visible light spectrum it's abolutly awful when most wikias use dark themes. Why? Eyes naturally flow to the bright pieces of an image. It's the same effect has a painting utilising red or orange. You're absolutly creating the wrong focal point for an encyclopedia.The Search Bar should never visually over power content. The new current bar does.

2. The goal of any wiki should be to look has close to the mother of all wikis, wikipedia, has posible. Changing from the mother model is just jaring for users. It's the equivlent of Toyota changing the steering wheel to a joystick and telling poeple that's how they should drive now.

3. Most people aren't interested in global navigation.They're on the wiki they're on for a reason, to read about that wikis content.

4. Learn subtly, don't do a global test. Do a test on a controlled area of Wikia such has this community wikia.

5. If it ain't broke don't fix it.