Re:How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation
by sgwae on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:23AM
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Reduce usable screen space by 15 percent all the item = instant disable.
If they didn't give that option, would have blocked the whole bar, not that it currently has much use anyways.
I thought the article mentioned this, but there's a user preference to turn that off ("Disable stickyness").
http://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences/