User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Introducing Updated Global Navigation/@comment-1519608-20140925072144

Like a lot of people here, I'm not sold on this change.

I think having the search bar pinned to the top of the page is a fantastic (and long overdue) idea. But, I am not a fan of pretty much everything else. The color of the bar should be customizable on each individual wiki, just as the current bar is. The bar is also much too tall, to the point where it is quite obtrusive. Additionally, I strongly object to the use of the term "search this wikia"... the wikis I edit on are wikis not wikias. The fact that the wikis are hosted by Wikia is irrelevant to most of our readership. And while I can understand that Wikia might want to construct its own cohesive brand, the wikis I'm on already have a hard enough time reinforcing our own brand labeling without Wikia muddying the waters and confusing the issue even more. My feeling is that having the Wikia logo on the top of the page is good enough; anything beyond that, such as forcing the use of "wikia" in the generic sense, intrudes on each individual community to determine its own label.

I strongly hope that Staff will address these issues. I really want to like this change, but at the present time it just is not good.