New messages notification

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For many years, the new messages notification appeared like this:

It was colloquially referred to as the "orange bar of death" or "orange bar of doom" (OBOD).

For logged-in users, the Echo extension replaces the original bar with the Echo bubble and a smaller notification bar (which temporarily replaces the link to the editor's User talk page):

The Echo new message notification looks roughly like this.

To see what the original (and still current for logged-out users) new messages notification looks like by default in various skins, use the links below. (The design in the version shown at the top, is from MonoBook/Vector):

Preview with available skins: