User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-25653892-20150204160440

Already I see some good changes. Feasible search bar, reasonable height overall, Wikia button itself doesn't activate the menu, and the menu button itself (the one with three strokes and a down arrow) has some frackin' latency before it opens the menu…

Good stuff. And I see all of the CSS and MediaWiki has been unchanged, so thanks for thinking about people's personal customizations then I guess.

Some things I would like to see:


 * Here's a weird, big idea that could clash with the huge flat redesign I ranted about, but… why not scroll the wiki's tooltip and top-navigation down along with the global nav?
 * …And to make that last one work (although it would be fine by itself), maybe further reduce the top-nav's height.
 * As part of that, remove much of the formatting from the search-bar input. It can stay like normal page text.
 * And while I know you love your branding, please consider making the Wikia logo and menu button smaller.
 * On that note, the spacing between the logo and the menu button is… really strange what with how wide it is. Fix pls.
 * Make a button to hide the global nav, similar to the one used to hide the menu bar thing at the bottom of the screen.
 * However, the global nav would always show when at the top of a page, regardless of whether it's expanded.
 * Add the transparency.
 * And if you're going to make it transparent, maybe choose a different color than transparent black, because that miiiiight look kinda weird on some wikias.
 * Or better yet, make admins be able to customize the color used when transparent.
 * Or the color outright.
 * This may be a glitch, but my avi icon on the nav is really tiny now.
 * Speaking of which, while I like the new position for the avi icon…
 * It seems weird to move it over because of the "Start a wikia" button.
 * This button is much smaller as well, but honestly, how many people are going to use it? And IMO it increases the creation of bad wikis and minuscule communities, which is not what Wikia's about.
 * I don't know where this function could be moved to, but… I just don't think it deserves a place on a permanently-visible menu bar.