User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-3026053-20140924175352

Personally, I'm a big fan of the fact that the bar is fixed at the top and scrolls down with you, so you don't always have to scroll all the way up if you want to search for another page.

Something I don't particularly like, however, is how everything on the bar is so big. The initial scroll menu has a good size, but if you then let the "notifications" menu fall open, the individual bars are twice the size of the initial scroll menu and I see little point to that. The size of it all is slightly off putting.

In regards to the new message notification, I miss being able to see who left you a messages that you've already seen. Now you only see their avatar image, which is not really helpful considering there are many users that frequently change their image and it's quite impossible to remember or even know the avatar of every user around your wiki. On the other hand, it is neat to have the usernames of the people who commented on a particular thread appear as opposed to just the last one and then the overlapping avatars.

Lastly, as a suggestion if this is at all possible: considering that there is this big white space on the left, would it be possible to fill that with the logo of the wiki itself, so that there is also a link to the wiki's main page fixed at the top of the search bar for everyone who wishes to quickly navigate back to that page (considering that many wiki's offer a lot of useful links on that page). Edit: although now I think of it, that's probably done to accommodate for mobile devices that don't have such wide screens ^^"