If your screen is too narrow, such as a windowed browser, you can still see the old glorious notification counter when it moves down. So here's a comparison between the happy and warm old notifications with theme appropriate colors, vs the new soulless light blue that isn't at all consistent with the other "new" indicators on Spectrum. New replies: gold. New activity: gold. New notifications on old system: gold. New notifications on new system: light blue!? Why? Keep it consistent. That's UX 101. Not to mention you'd kinda want the "new" indicators to pop. The gold was a perfect color here. Also, there's clearly enough room for 999 notifications at least. Why stop at 99? The old system didn't. That was glorious.