User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-5556688-20150130002852

Just make the color customizable like everything else and it's fine. To this day I still haven't gotten used to fact that the navbar is now used to search through the wiki you're browsing through because the color makes it stand out like a soar thumb on darker wikia's. It looks like it not a part of site, so naturally I don't feel it is natural to use it to search. I notice this every time I'm on something like The Elder Scrolls wiki, in which I heavily use the search function.

Moreover, I never understood why anyone would use the navbar to search for anything outside the wiki they're on in the first place. Does it really help that you can now search all Wikia's through it? Most people only use a handful of wikis and they are either just as fast to get to via the browser or a bookmark. You just can't outdo Google on this. Be glad that Wikia is almost always among the top 3 search result for anything pop culture related.