<p>I liked the way how themes for meta and non-meta where different. With the currently similar themes I get confused and this is annoying because the menu's for navigation are different between meta and non-meta. It has become less clear <em>what</em> site I am one.</p>
<p><strong>If you make different sites and navigation menu's then why not also different themes?</strong></p>
<p>From this point of view I do not get why sites should have completely similar looks?</p>
<p><em>&quot;the new unified themes across the network&quot;</em> what does that mean? Does it mean unified in the backend or will it also mean unified for the frontend?</p>
<ul>
<li>Is the idea to have the similar (looking) themes only temporarily, due to a reset of the themes, e.g. because of some changes in the background (and stats can look different again later on)?</li>
<li>or is the idea to make the themes more permanently similar because some people have decided that the customized front end themes should be more similar?</li>
</ul>
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<h3>NEW</h3>
<p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/">https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mAEB8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mAEB8.png" alt="stats.meta" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/">https://stats.stackexchange.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FFzh9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FFzh9.png" alt="stats" /></a></p>
<h3>OLD</h3>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oWW58.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oWW58.png" alt="old stats" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wl3IE.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wl3IE.png" alt="old meta" /></a></p>
<p>I think that the difference for me with the old designs was that stats.meta had a uniform background and stats had a non-uniform background (ie a contrast between the center/middle panel and the sides). So even though the background is only a faint pale colour it was a distinctive difference because of the contrast with the sides.</p>
