User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-24874291-20150205000330

This still feels like a cheap shot. The notifications ARE a bit smaller (the drop down by the wikia thing for Comics, TV, Movies, etc is still irresponsibly huge), but some of the same problems persist. It's like you planned to give us something kinda crappy, then make it ok by making it less crappy, but still worse than we had before. I still don't want to believe that you'd ACCIDENTALLY make those notifications so huge on browsers.

That Wiki dropdown for Comics, TV, etc is absolutely useless to me most of the time because I don't care. But when I accidentally hover over it, it INSTANTLY plops the whole thing over my screen, and sometimes I click it accidentally, opposed to the thing under it.

My Profile Status is still connected with my Notifications, when I want them separate. (Or whatever it was before.) Also, I have to hover over my super generic profile picture icon for like half a second before it drops down. That's good! But the wiki Comics TV etc doesn't do this.

I actually liked the old "Search this wikia" and "Search all of Wikia" change before, but now this NEW one doesn't look as good. I'd like the "Search this wiki" to be outside of the text box, I think.

Why is "Start a wikia" by my notifications? Can't you put it by the other side with the wikia logo thing so I don't get my mouse close to that thing?

Why can't we change the color of the bar at the top? Why is this STILL a problem? You make it look impossible, but you did it before.

Why are the avatars in circles instead of squares on my notifications? The Wiki only accepts square profile pictures.

A new request: Could you make it so we can change the color of the "MY FAVORITE WIKIS" text on the profile pages? It's currently grey, and that clashes with the TTR Wiki right now. Maybe if there was an option to make it glow a certain color like white, so the grey text had some contrast, or maybe just make the text itself black, or something...

What's the purpose of the new bar at the top anyway? Was the old one not mobile friendly, were you trying to make it less laggy, is this just a project for your staff to work on so they can become familiar with the Wiki's coding, or do actually think this is a better interface?

Maybe I'll have a use for the Wiki dropdown for Comics, TV, etc but it's still way too huge and way too easy to activate. :/