User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-1486330-20150205011522

The good: I like the lighter color on notifications. The old red was really distracting on those days when I wanted to just edit and not deal with forums, walls, and other stuff until later.

I also like the decreased font size in the notifications.

The bad: I can't tell that the height of the nav bar was reduced. It still looks hugely tall on XP / Firefox 34. If the entire nav bar was the height of the current search box, that'd probably be about right.

Also the search box is insanely wide. The longest word I could think of (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) doesn't even take up half the width of the search bar. Combining that word with the second longest word I could think of (antidisestablishmentarianism) still leaves a decent amount of unused space in the search box.