User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-1486330-20150205011522/@comment-1038387-20150205092410

There are times I still miss the orange banner. That was unmissable. The red dot was possibly missable, because it's in the margin, but a lot of sites use red for notifications, so could people understand what it is. But a new user can very easily not look at the top if there's nothing very visible. It's a pm, it's supposed to be distracting.