User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-5645428-20141023130257/@comment-24025240-20141023202451

Thanks for the comments. We're definitely going to keep an eye on the size issue and the notifications. Even something that ends up rolling out to a larger audience can still be improved upon.

As for the choice of white in the global nav that too was a conscious decion by our design team. Communities on Wikia use such a wide variety of colors that white ended up being the best choice to work everywhere while still adhering to the goals of the navigation I outlined above.