GBAtemp V5 is online!

Dear Tempers,

The GBAtemp Team is happy to present the Fifth version of GBAtemp (this isn't even its final form!). TJ and I have been working on it for months and it's finally ready for you to use. There are tons of changes so I will only highlight the biggest ones, and you'll discover the rest by yourself over time.

A new homepage
We have created a brand new customizable and modern homepage. Its layout can be adjusted to fit your personal preference - move your mouse over the "Home" menu item and click "Customize your portal" to make your changes.

New site skin
We have updated the site and forum skin to look more modern with new colors and fonts. Both skins have been updated (light & dark). We are still working out the kinks, we are aware of a few minor issues, not everything's perfect yet but in time we'll get there!

Mobile friendly browsing
Finally you can browse GBAtemp on your mobile devices... without Tapatalk! Our new skin is fully responsive, just try it, it looks fantastic! All site features are supported, including the dark theme.

Ask GBAtemp!
If you have been around long enough you already know what this is. But for the others: Ask GBAtemp is a place where you can ask simple questions and get direct answers, in a similar manner to Yahoo Answers. There are already thousands of questions back from a few years ago, and it's now time to get back at it! Go ahead and ask your questions if you've got any.

Board upgrade
We have updated our forum software to the latest version, and this brings a lot of improvements on all fronts. The biggest and most noticeable improvements are:
- a new message editor supporting image paste and drag & drop
- watching a forum to get notifications when new posts are made
- multi-quote and selective quoting
- thread-wide bans... whoops, this is going to come in handy for the mod team
- online status indicator on avatars

We hope you will enjoy browsing the new and improved GBAtemp. Feel free to reply to this thread to give us feedback. Many thanks to tj_cool for doing most of the work!

A discussion forum has been created to centralize discussions revolving around GBAtemp v5. Click here to access it! We have already created several thread about known issues.

Costello & the GBAtemp Team

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OK, is there still, STILL, STILL anyone who can integrate an option to switch back to older themes such as V4, V3 or even V1? I signed up by the time V4 was still available online, so I still have V1 - V3 to discover.
Personally, I'd add the old skin back as a separate option (if possible), but I know it's not up to me.
Hey yeah this would be really nice.
 
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You can customize the home page by hovering over the home button and clicking customize portal or whatever it says. You are free to remove everything you don't want to look at and arrange it almost identically to V4 if that works better for you. Play around with the arrangements until you find something that works best for you.

Still can't say I like it as much as V4 but a whole lot better now I've customized it.
 
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Don't worry, two weeks from now, people are gonna get used to it. In the meantime, I can make a killing off of salt mining. ^_^
Well more like people will give up hope after 2 weeks of begging.

If adding the old theme isn't an option, you should let people know. It stop some backlash. I hope you know I am legitimately trying to help.
 

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just my opinion but 3 column blows
the left column could easily be a dropdown box filter button instead of its own column

edit: ok I noticed the layout changes based on res, still think the far most left column could be a button when the res is lower

other than that I like it really
 
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just my opinion but 3 column blows
the left column could easily be a dropdown box filter button instead of its own column

edit: ok I noticed the layout changes based on res, still think the far most left column could be a button when the res is lower

other than that I like it really
I do agree that the far left column being a dropdown off the top menu (there is quite a bit of empty space there that could be utilized) would be ideal with an expansion of the two center columns as well as the middle that expands across both center column. This could potentially allow for a better view of news article pictures, as currently the square picture formatting is not all that flattering to already created articles. Future ones may fix this, but considering user generated content is pulled to the front page too, I could see those somewhat unattractive pictures being more a detriment than anything else.
 
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mutiquotes tool is really cool. now we can click a button and esily post it on other thread, making now a huge diference between reply and quote...

reply= the post is copied into the text box so you can easily quote and reply to that or several members
+quote= save a quote (or several) for paste on another thread so this way you don't need to actually link the original thread, you can copy the posts that got the usefull information that someone is asking..
before you had to edit and copy paste from one place to other, now you have a button for dat

edit:
also, already told 3 times now but so people know.
if you select text (from another post) buttons appear to either reply or copy into quote box

edit2: filetrip button on top left new thingy doesn't work for me (and i even disabled adblock
 
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