User blog comment:Meighan/New Tools to Start & Grow Your Wiki/@comment-1997905-20110806034146/@comment-2200849-20110807125613

@Colgatecity: The new dashboard greatly lessened the functionality of special pages by removing the search box and the navigation header and inserting "stats" onto the right margin. I&mdash;and probably the other critics&mdash;don't really have a problem with Special:AdminDashboard itself&mdash;the problem is with its effects. That small link in the lower toolbar would be right enough: that is not disturbing and does not dumb the page down. Anyways, good opinion on change, but this change is somewhat devolving.