User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation Update/@comment-17725354-20141203230218

I have two main complaints:

Also, the theme designer header option should be renamed footer, as this new navigation makes it so only the footer is changed. Very confusing to newer users.
 * 1) Not only is getting to the notifications a pain, but after opening the dropdown menu, it cannot be closed without visiting another page. Even when I click on the little arrow, it takes me to my user page. Just because I want to look at my notifications doesn't mean that I want to visit a different page. I had to rewrite this entire post because I opened the dropdown menu and tried to close it.
 * 2) As many others have stated, the bulky white bar at the top of the screen is an extreme eyesore on darker colored communities (I would imagine it looks bad on some lighter ones as well). The wiki I'm the founder of (just celebrated our first birthday in October!) is mainly dark blue with some green and a tad bit of silver, and this navigation doesn't fit in at all with our theme. If you can't make the new navigation as customizable as the old one, you could at least allow us to choose from some pre-colored ones that might look somewhat decent on darker communities.

What I do like:


 * 1) The new hubs are much more specific and they allow for communities that didn't fit in with the old navigation to be featured.