[quote=@Hank]
Minor gripe: profile URLs no longer contain our user ID? Damn you, Mahz. How am I supposed to boast about being the 14th registered user now? 

Minor suggestion: make the notification counter (not the bell icon itself) a different colour. Something brighter. Blue, perhaps? 

[sub]yes i'm taking a page from facebook's design ethos, sue me[/sub]
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Gold or red would look better, IMHO.