Pretty much - the search gamespot text isn't vertically centred like it should be in your screenshot and the text is a light grey instead of a darker, practically black, colour for some reason, but the the whole white background thing is intended. The devs are aware that it's not ideal however, especially in the dark theme, and I believe stylyy mentioned he was going to play around with it a bit to try and find a good balance for both themes - that was a good 3.5 weeks ago though so it would appear that other things have taken precedence over fine tuning it so that it doesn't look out of place on either theme while still maintaining suitable visibility for the text.
I can't remember there being anything wrong with the visual style of the search before... And now it looks horrid. I mean seriously.... it is utterly devoid of any style or design. That's why i thought it was broken. Oh well, keep it up, guys!
It disappears whenever you scroll down the page and re-appears whenever you scroll up, so if it's distracting you can use that to essentially hide it at least.
How about making it blend in with the rest of the design, like every other website does and has done since search bars were invented?
That's what styly was basically looking into doing a while back (mentioned it very briefly in this thread, no updates since, it's possible it's a low priority thing), I'm not sure what's happening with it though - it actually does blend in fairly well on the light theme as is, it just doesn't on the dark theme (which myself and many others always use over the light one..) I agree something needs doing about it to make it less of an eyesore on the dark theme, but the scrolling does allow you to easily hide it in the meantime, at least when not scrolling up the page (scrolling up a little more than usual then scroll down a tiny bit hides it too, though really shouldn't be necessary).
How about making it blend in with the rest of the design, like every other website does and has done since search bars were invented?
That's what styly was basically looking into doing a while back (mentioned it very briefly in this thread, no updates since, it's possible it's a low priority thing), I'm not sure what's happening with it though - it actually does blend in fairly well on the light theme as is, it just doesn't on the dark theme (which myself and many others always use over the light one..) I agree something needs doing about it to make it less of an eyesore on the dark theme, but the scrolling does allow you to easily hide it in the meantime, at least when not scrolling up the page (scrolling up a little more than usual then scroll down a tiny bit hides it too, though really shouldn't be necessary).
Why not just get the old search bar and stick it on the new navigation bar? It would look something like this:
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