If you're an old user, you'll know what I'm talking about. Before of having those two grey boxes up there in your top right corner, we had a little white box that said 0:Notices. Whenever you had a number of notices (higher than 0) the number would turn red and start blinking. I miss the old notices sign. In my opinion, it looked better. It matched more with the site in the contrary of those two grey things.
IIN to miss the old notices thing?
IIN to miss the old notices thing?

We should write into feedback and have them fix it! :P
EDIT: OP, you have excellent taste! :D
Heck, I remember when you didn't even have the option to go backwards. You could only look at your previous 13 comments or so and that was it.
....Get off my lawn.
It doesn't need to be flashing / blinking. I'm happy with it like this.
Okay, you win. But this won't be the last notification you get from me, pal. Mark my words! *Picks up pieces of shattered pride and runs out of thread while crying*
EDIT: Oooh, I DO remember it now! Silly me, and yes, I liked it a lot. Not that I really dislike this way, and I think it works well for the space it allows the messages notification box :P
Welcome to the IIN community, by the way.
Yes, I miss them too. I've been here for 3 years now, and it simply is not the same without them. I'm guessing you are a lurker then? How else would you know about my username and the older posters?
But, if you insist on being more like me, you have to get the intelligence and logic thing down first. Gover over your name, then hover over mine...Shows who has been here longer, brah. ;)
My account may be new- that doesn't mean I'm new; I am a lurker. Technically, I've been here longer.
I do not prove anything, in all honesty, the more I get of my ItDuz army, the more known I am. I shall embrace my new Duz minions to do my bidding, young one.
That may be, but just like I have no actual proof to state you are ItDuznt, you have no proof to prove you have been a lurker, and because you cannot prove this, you shall be seen as ItDoes(112372). You have much to learn in rational and deductive reasoning, my dear Duz youngling. Don't worry, the power of the Duz name gives power, I lend you the power of thy name Duz.
Go forth my my little Duzian, meet new Duzians, embrace my other minions and your new brotheren, for you are now part of my Duzian army, my little footsoldier, Duzian, youngling.
Fly my pretties, fly!
I had a suggestion for the private messages box that I sent in one time, but it never got implemented. The idea was to have some kind of hyperlink that would take you directly to the private messages page instead of having to wait for all of your recent conversations with users to load in the little box up at the top, and then clicking on one, and then getting taken to the page you need to get to. That suggestion is kind of null now though, since the private messages loading delay issue that was going on a while back has been taken care of.