Eight hours ago, the top stripe of the Super User window showed my name. 
When I hovered the mouse over my name, a convenient information/control box popped up:

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(although I don’t know what it was counting for **revisions**; I do a lot of editing).

Sometime during the past eight hours the design changed. 
Now, the top stripe shows my gravatar/icon instead of my name. 
That, by itself, is a don’t-care. 
But when I hover over it, all it shows me is my name:

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What’s the point in that? 
And by the way, hovering over the reputation produces an even more pointless text:

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OK, I found a clickable button over to the left
that pops up an information box that lists recent reputation change events.

I don’t like this.

- As I stated, this new box requires a click to invoke and a click to dismiss,
making it more work than the previous one.
- This new box is showing me information I can already get
from the **reputation** tab of my user page.
- I don’t see the nice day / week / month / **votes** / **revisions** / **favorites**
summary information that was there.
- I don’t see the **activity**, **privileges**, and **log out** links that were there.
- The **chat** and **meta** links seem to be gone, too.

To add insult to injury, I’m finding the gray-on-black text to be harder to read
than what we had before, but I guess that’s subjective and anecdotal.

Can we please have the old design back? 
Barring that, can the above issues be resolved?

Oh, I guess you need to know that I’m using Internet Explorer 8.

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And yes, I know I’m not supposed to post two questions as one. 
But why isn’t [tag:ui] a synonym for [tag:user-interface], as it is on the main site?



  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/iFmig.png
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/rVpMP.png
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/D1MfS.png