User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-4061770-20150130193552/@comment-3452092-20150130223912

I've had that issue as well. On top of the sudden huge intrusive area in my way, it's rather garish. I got used to the old one, which caused my problems, so I imagine I'll get used to avoiding this one. I just wish it didn't look so bright.

The rest of it I don't mind. I don't see the point of the "start a wikia" button on the navbar, but it isn't problematic (and probably was on the old one, I just didn't notice it because it was less obvious). Although I agree that the search bar is huge, I kind of like that it follows me down a page and, more importantly, lets me search from an edit screen, which sometimes works faster to finding a link I want to use than typing it in to the edit screen. I've had no issues with the notification area.