User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-4199666-20141204141328

Overall, I don't think it should just be gone for the sake of going back to what it was. I'm not a huge fan of it, mostly because I use an RP wiki and can get upwards of 20 notifications several times a day. When this is only displaying 4 notifications at a time, that can get a bit annoying. (Where a bit is an understatement.) Not only that, but by the time I've replied to the top four, there's a chance people could have already replied to those (or others) and it takes me ages to get to the bottom of the list.

Also, it is way too tall. Like ridiculously tall. I don't see why wikia users would need something so blatantly obvious up at the top of their screen all the time. Also, thankfully I have a bright coloured wiki, so it's not really my place to complain about the colour of it, but oh boy does it feel weird having a black border across the bottom and then nothing on top.

Suggestions for improvement: I used some of the personal css/js customisations that mostly returned it to normal, but unfortunately I couldn't find any that would return the message notifications back to normal.
 * Make it shorter. Please for the love of god, make it shorter.
 * Fix the message notifications. Either return it to the original functional system, or incorporate a scrollbar somewhere in there so I can get to the bottom. Also, I don't see why the notifications are so big anyway. I used to be able to fit way more than four on a screen at a time.
 * Customisation: Honestly, I feel like ninety percent of the issue here is that it completely throws of the colour schemes of wikis. (Or are they wikias now?) Anyway, I feel like asking for the option to customise it (even if it's just the choice between white text on black or black text on whie) is not too much to ask.

Also, why are all the avatars suddenly cropped to be round when we're required to upload square ones? Like, whose bright idea was that?

I'm not going to comment on the fact that it scrolls down the page because I understand that's a variable being tested, but if it weren't so big and space consuming, I think it would be ideal for people who don't want to scroll back up the top to load new messages. Maybe incorporate a hide/show button like you've done with the footer.