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It's very useful for the user to know which SE site they're using at a glance. For example, I use Unix & Linux, Ask Ubuntu, Vi and Vim, Stack Overflow, and Server Fault, which can have very similar, if not the same, questions. Often I know exactly what I'm looking for/need, and I want to go back to an answer I remember reading before, to copy from it, but I don't remember which site it was on.

Demo:

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    I agree with this. We get a lot of new users asking blatantly off-topic questions on this site, and many of those are because users get here from some link and don't realize that they've been directed to a different site. This will help in reducing said instances.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Jan 28 '20 at 1:26
  • That is a pretty nifty user script. I think you should remove it and post it as an answer instead.
    – Cave Johnson
    Jan 28 '20 at 1:26
  • Yes, and also publish it on Stack Apps. (cc @KodosJohnson)
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Jan 28 '20 at 1:27
  • @KodosJohnson and @ Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog took your advice and moved the userscript to an answer.
    – Wis
    Jan 28 '20 at 1:56
  • +1, I for one regularly click the "page logo" of web pages to get to the root page. Clicking the StackExchange logo is basically a lost click for me (and it requires another one to get out again).
    – snwflk
    Jan 28 '20 at 2:20
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    if you disable the sticky header you don't have this problem ...
    – rene
    Jan 28 '20 at 13:47
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    Less than an inch away is the URL on all major browsers (Including Internet Explorer!). The URL is my "hack" to know what site I am on when using the internet.
    – JFoxx64
    Jan 28 '20 at 23:59
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You can start using this today, or at least get a feel for this proposed change, while seeing if you agree with it, by using a userscript I made:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         "StackExchange" sticky header image to SE site's logo
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  change the sticky logo to the SE site's logo
// @author       Wis
// @match        https://*.stackexchange.com/**
// @match        https://*.askubuntu.com/**
// @match        https://*.superuser.com/**
// @match        https://*.serverfault.com/**
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
let sub = undefined;
const logo = document.querySelector("body > header.site-header > div > a > img");
if (logo === null) {
    sub = document.querySelector("body > header.site-header > div > a").cloneNode(true)
} else {
    const img = document.createElement('img');
    img.src = logo.src;
    sub = img;
}
const stickyHeaderImg = document.querySelector("body > header.top-bar.js-top-bar.top-bar__network._fixed > div > div > a.-logo.js-gps-track.js-network-logo.network-logo");
const stackExchangeLogo = stickyHeaderImg.children[0];
const logo_size = logo.getBoundingClientRect();
document.addEventListener('scroll', function() {
    if (window.scrollY > logo_size.height) {
        stickyHeaderImg.removeChild(stackExchangeLogo);
        stickyHeaderImg.prepend(sub);
    } else {
        stickyHeaderImg.removeChild(sub);
        stickyHeaderImg.prepend(stackExchangeLogo);
    }
});

It's published on OpenUserJS. You can install it by clicking the install button twice.

Demo: gif of “Stack Exchange” being replaced by “Meta” in the header

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This is not something that we will be doing at this time. One of the reasons: many site logos will not look good on this type of background, and thus doing this will require lots of logo rework and/or custom styling per site.

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  • Definitely agree; in the current form, it works for Meta because its logo is white, but it won't work for beta and non-designed sites (for example) because their logos are dark blue.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Feb 4 '20 at 4:05

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