The consensus appears to be that the new title bar is
- illegible
- ugly
These are, it appears, negligible concerns, outweighed by a parsimonious reluctance to consult a Real Designer about decisions which The Programmers are perfectly capable of botching on their own. These are, after all, the same people who compose and decompose the Help pages and other informational matter without consulting an Actual Writer.
What vexes me is the lack of notice. A couple of weeks ago the admirable Laura took the trouble to announce, here and on ELL, that these sites were specifically excluded from a new policy which might have occasioned distress and misunderstanding. Why was the same trouble not taken to announce a new design which does affect us all? Why could this not have been announced on each site’s meta, instead of being relegated to the Community Bulletin? —which I’m sure many users besides me (and Prof. Lawler) never notice.
