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To be honest, there are a few things with this new design that seem off to me. Most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on Stack Overflow to the announcement it was being released network-wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would make sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also, it is a darker colour on the main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.

To be honest, there are a few things with this new design that seem off to me. Most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on Stack Overflow to the announcement it was being released network-wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would make sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

status-completed A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also, it is a darker colour on the main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

status-completed The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.

To be honest, there are a few things with this new design that seems off to me, most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on StackOverflow to the announcement it was being released network-wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would make sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also, it is a darker colour on the main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.

To be honest, there are a few things with this new design that seem off to me. Most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on Stack Overflow to the announcement it was being released network-wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would make sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also, it is a darker colour on the main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.

To be honest there are a few things with this new design that seem off to me, most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on StackOverflow to the announcement it was being released network wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would makes sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also it is a darker colour on main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.

To be honest, there are a few things with this new design that seems off to me, most of them have been stated already, from the initial announcement on StackOverflow to the announcement it was being released network-wide, so I won't restate them here.

However, consistency is a big problem. The main concern with this seems to be it would be too much work to get all the sites inline with SO. I don't understand the reasoning behind this, why can't you just get SO inline with the rest of the sites?

However, one small thing that seems to nag at me is the reputation number seems to stand out too much. I think it would make sense to unbold it at least and even have it be the same colour as the icons.

The reasoning behind not adding labels to the icons also seems odd. You yourself state "Icons are hard" then won't implement a simple change for them to make them clearer. Awards is shorter and conveys the same meaning as achievements so I don't see why it's "cheating" at all. It makes sense.

A possible bug with the icons is when you middle click them they just open up the same page you're on in a new tab. I would expect either nothing or to open a default page associated with the icon e.g. /help. This behaviour seems to be implemented for review.

I've just noticed that the StackExchange logo on the bar has also been updated, will this be changed on https://stackexchange.com/ too? Also, it is a darker colour on the main meta than other sites, not sure if this is intentional but it is confusing. Looking further it appears the SFF has the lighter colour and other sites like PPCG and Gaming have the main meta colour, is there any reasoning for this inconsistency? All meta's appear to use the orange colour though, though I'm not sure why this is... This appears to have been changed back again now, why though? Who knows. (Side note: it's hard to compile a list of bugs and feature-requests if you keep updating it...)

Another thing I've noticed since the new update is that I open multiple tabs before opening my inbox and rep dropdowns. On the old bar when I opened one on one tab the others would refresh and the counts would go away. Now I have to refresh the page myself for these to update. It is a bit annoying.

The rep popup on the achievements icon is not centred, I would expect it to be so.