frankly I didn't even notice the site mail icon up at top right near the login name until you mentioned it and I went looking for it. Sure enough I have a message... not that I'd noticed. At least the old one 'blinked' at you so you'd see that something was new.

There's also the 'site notifications' next to it which is pretty pointless IMO. There's the email notifications (which I send automagically directly to trash anyway otherwise my email would be nothing but rendo notifications of a fav or comment... )and there's no way to delete them! (as far as I can see) so why double up like this?

 

cheers

Sean