User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-24513088-20140925110338

I kinda feel like summarising some of me and other user's complaints so here I go.

1. User:ForeverFriendlyViolet and others: "I like it, but I just wish it was a bit smaller", User:Kuroageha: "It's really nice but the header is too big, I think." User:Sgt D Grif: "I'm also not a fan of how massive the thing is, especially with the excessive horizontal and vertical spacing between items in the Notifications section." User:Sabovia: "The only problems I have with it is it's size, I would personally make it's height smaller. And I would not make it float, as it's quite distracting, over than that, it's a much needed improvement."

Yes, I do think that the new bar and the menus might be a little bit too big, especially on a 11.6 inch 1366×768 screen. It looks like roughly twice the size of the old one, so I personally think that should be 1 to 1.5x the sixe of the old bar and not only that, but I think there should be a user option to not make the new top bar float.

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2. User:LostInRiverview: "The color of the bar should be customizable on each individual wiki, just as the current bar is."

Yeah! What I'm thinking is that the bar should be coloured to the wiki's main colour by default and then the buttons would change to the wiki's button colour when hovered.

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3. Sgt D Grif(continued): "Having it stick to the top of the screen is also a good idea (which could be made even better with a show/hide button like the bar on the bottom)."

Yeah. I think they should pay attention to detail just a little bit and add that show/hide button.

Additionally, when they do fully roll out this update, they should be able to flatten the colour of the bottom bar.

"However, I feel that tweaking the existing top bar to have these features would be much more accepted, rather than essentially forcing a much larger, solid white bar without giving the majority of the site's users a choice in the matter."

Yeah! That might be a better idea, even though I only 65% agree with that. His mockup is below:



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4. LostInRiverview(continued): "Additionally, I strongly object to the use of the term "search this wikia"... the wikis I edit on are wikis not wikias. The fact that the wikis are hosted by Wikia is irrelevant to most of our readership. And while I can understand that Wikia might want to construct its own cohesive brand, the wikis I'm on already have a hard enough time reinforcing our own brand labeling without Wikia muddying the waters and confusing the issue even more."

which conflicts with:

Sabovia(continued): "And I'd change "Search this wikia" to "Search this wiki"."

and:

User:Tupka217: "A wikia is a Wikia wiki. It's a name change they did a couple of months ago. Probably to boost brand name recognition."

so I'm not even sure if that should be tweaked. I'm leaning about 30° towards what LIR said in terms of my opinion.

At least Wikia isn't like YouTube in the sense that they actually beta test and announce new features and let us voice out our thoughts before rolling them out site-wide(or in this case, network-wide).

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5. Reply to someone's comment and I forgot their username:

Me: "I also think that they should make it so that we click the menus instead of hovering to open them but still be able to hover over to open the menus below that. Then put one extra menu item on top of all other menu items in the user menu that takes us to our user pages."

I just realised that this is the same for the old bar as well.