User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-17486224-20150206175216/@comment-452-20150207000718

A few other people have mentioned something similar, and I suspected something was wrong, but your comment all-but-confirms it.

That does not describe the behaviour I am seeing. The notifications panel shouldn't be hard to move the mouse to.

Could you take a screenshot of the expanded notifications?