User blog comment:BertH/Layout and navigation updates coming October 3/@comment-166-20120923030914/@comment-5209426-20120923051100

The content area is small enough, IMHO. Accidentally dropping the related wikis menus over the page is bad enough with the thing stuck at the top, that would be awful if it floated down the page (every time I hover over to the browser controls, I would end up triggering the damn menus to cover 1/4 of the screen).

What they should do is move the notifications bubbles icon to the right-hand end of the footer instead, and make it so that clicking it opens your Message Wall/Talk Page on the current wiki instead of doing nothing. That wouldn't waste nearly as much space or be even half as annoying.