GBAtemp V5 is online!

Alkéryn · Jun 2, 2015

ArnoDorian said:
Tapatalk has been broken with the new update. No more push notifs.

So which version still work?

nxwing · Jun 2, 2015

Alkéryn said:
So which version still work?

As far as I know, None if the versions will work.

Oshae93 · Jun 3, 2015

When i came on to the site today i was like.....

AboodXD · Jun 3, 2015

Costello said:
New site skin
Mobile friendly browsing

No offense, but those two features are disgustingly ugly.
I wish if there was a button that changes you back to the old theme.

Not saying that I could do better...

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Xenon Hacks said:
We still have no spoiler button

What do you mean? We have

TADAH!!

Deleted User · Jun 3, 2015

AboodXD said:
What do you mean? We have

TADAH!!

Xenon Hacks means a button to insert a spoiler while you're editing your post.

Cyan · Jun 3, 2015

but there is one.
it's the right icon in the smiley block
smiley, picture, media, dropdown menu for inserting quotes, spoiler, code and strike trough (I don't understand why strike is not with bold and underline)

if you switch to the "bbcode" mode, it's the flag icon.

it's even in the non-rich editor.

If you don't use the rich editor, try re-enabling it in your preferences.
non-rich doesn't have smiley button anymore.

One thing I don't like with the rich editor though, it's that text selection triggers my auto-copy to clipboard addon.
It's not a normal text area, it's a fake one with applied style.
I wish I could force bbcode mode by default when using rich editor.

Another annoying thing, if the URL contains an hashtag ( /page-20#post-5520187 for example), when the page is refreshed you are sent back to that position. V4 didn't to that, you could hit F5 and the page was refreshed but you stayed at the same location on the page.

It's just little details.

Reecey · Jun 4, 2015

I dont like the new layout guys the front page is a bit of a muddle, unsure tbh

I think I preferred the old look but I remember saying that about the last upgrade and maybe the one before that lol

Youkai · Jun 4, 2015

Same Game last time, instead of giving a preview and asking the people for their opinion they are doing it the dictator way and just force their opinion on us...

I really wonder when gbatemp changed to a.h.temp (yeah yeah sorry I know it is a little bit to much but still..)

I think I am here longer than most stuff and it always hurts when some new guys think they know everything better and can chance something good which is working into something even better, especially when they can't.

This design the page is using now is a clone of EVEREY freaking thing that gets bloated out lately and I liked none of those.
Thank you Microsoft and android for starting this -.-

ProtoKun7 · Jun 4, 2015

Youkai said:
Same Game last time, instead of giving a preview and asking the people for their opinion they are doing it the dictator way and just force their opinion on us...

Try to sound a little less cheerful.

blindseer · Jun 4, 2015

ProtoKun7 said:
Try to sound a little less cheerful.

Well no guns were placed against our heads, that's about all I can say on that front. It's better than the gfaqs redesign, but that's not saying much. I'll live with it though...

Armadillo · Jun 4, 2015

blindseer said:
It's better than the gfaqs redesign

Not hard. The gamefaqs redesign is awful. A dog could shit on the floor and it would be better. Experimental v3 + buttons and names on side makes it tolerable.

Unlike here, Gamefaqs did actually do a preview. But they done it in such a dodgy way, that the result could be nothing other than "everyone liked it".

blindseer · Jun 4, 2015

Armadillo said:
Not hard. The gamefaqs redesign is awful. A dog could shit on the floor and it would be better. Experimental v3 + buttons and names on side makes it tolerable.

Unlike here, Gamefaqs did actually do a preview. But they done it in such a dodgy way, that the result could be nothing other than "everyone liked it".

Yeah, I never even heard about the preview, until after they shoved it down everybody's throats, yeah the exp3 is better then without but god gfaqs is terrible now.
Gbatemp is usable but the front page in my opinion a cluster F@#K, on the other hand after removing about everything from it, its bearable. The v4 looked much cleaner imho.

JoostinOnline · Jun 5, 2015

blindseer said:
Yeah, I never even heard about the preview, until after they shoved it down everybody's throats, yeah the exp3 is better then without but god gfaqs is terrible now.
Gbatemp is usable but the front page in my opinion a cluster F@#K, on the other hand after removing about everything from it, its bearable. The v4 looked much cleaner imho.

I'm pretty sure almost everybody liked v4 better (we need a poll, but I'm pretty sure they'll close it), but the staff made it clear they have no intention of adding an option for v4 back.

I actually like the GameFAQs website better than this.

Nathan Drake · Jun 5, 2015

I honestly don't get why people are so up in arms. I mean, I got used to the change in less than 24 hours, and I doubt it's because I'm strangely adaptable. The site was updated in numerous ways, a few of them actually being a bit of a throwback to V3 which I found to be rather nice when I first joined (V3, that is). People say "but the front page is crowded", but you realize, to a random visitor, it's actually more of a showcase of all the site has to offer. Once you're a member and you discover what offerings suit you best, you are more than able to prioritize those to see what you want to see. As members, you know exactly what you like and what you want to see, and I don't feel any of it is presented in an unattractive manner.

I guess if you want to be a dick about it, it's your prerogative and I ultimately can't tell you your opinion is wrong, but I feel the bashing is pure stubbornness, plain and simple. With my front page as it is, not only is it super easy to navigate, but new news is easily seen, staff featured articles are right at the top, even the most obscure sections of this forum are available in the recent content box. Not to mention that it translates incredibly well to an easy to use mobile experience without the need of extraneous apps. All in all, the change was an upgrade in multiple ways and was necessary to keep V4 itself from becoming overcrowded with additional new features. And while we all look at V4 through rose colored glasses, let's not forget times when the front page was loaded down with youtube videos and pictures that made the front page unnecessarily long to load 100% even on my 50Mbps connection. Let's not forget that the recent content box was only recent topics, that the EoF was hidden away truly at the edge of the forum with less activity than ever, blogs were pushed off into barely used obscurity, and Ask GBAtemp was nowhere to be seen.

Sometimes trying to go super simple doesn't work when you actually have a fully featured website. Although the forum is the core of the site, you are sorely mistaken if you think it's the only piece that should be accentuated. GBAtemp is multifaceted site, and no part of it should have to be hidden away because users are too set in their ways to see the benefits right in front of them, instead crying about the one thing that they are in total control over.

For those of you saying "I want a V4 skin". You realize a V4 skin would have to be completely reworked to encompass new features, right? That it wouldn't just be a simple reapplication of the old theme? That they aren't just going to hide away features that they want to be more prominent because some of you are too obstinate to accept the change?

A few of you really need to stop acting like such entitled brats. It's becoming tiresome to see almost a week after the update went live.

Youkai · Jun 5, 2015

I still think the core part of GBATemp was allways the Release list including screenshots and comments about new Games !
It was a feature that was already included in v1 and got removed with v4 which I honestly didn't like as well, mainly because of the missing release list ...

You know, the whole community years ago started with GBA Roms and even though the Roms were removed later there was still the release list and everyone were talking only about the new releases and stuff ... this was the whole purpose of the page, now it is a collection of everything and nothing all together.
The Name of this site is not fitting at all anymore.
It is like you have a Homepage called "how to become a baker" and in the end it transforms to a fashion magazine and still having the old name.

zoogie · Jun 5, 2015

JoostinOnline said:
I'm pretty sure almost everybody liked v4 better (we need a poll, but I'm pretty sure they'll close it), but the staff made it clear they have no intention of adding an option for v4 back.

I actually like the GameFAQs website better than this.

It seems forum traffic is waaay down since after the switch. (members/guests online)
Usually there would be about around 200 members online right now, but it's down to 140.

I personally don't mind the change. In fact, I think its an improvement overall (once I was able to fix the portal to my liking).

Elrinth · Jun 5, 2015

Fresh to see a new layout! Altho it's not super mobile friendly still. The logo gets cut so it says: GBATEM and the m is half cut. also the head in the logo collides with "FORUMS" menu choice.
I'm on windows phone 8.1 in portrait mode

if I turn it horizontally then the whole logo can be viewed, however the head now collides inside the "HOME" menu choice instead.

I would have preferred if the "recent content" be at the top and news directly below that.

Nathan Drake · Jun 5, 2015

Youkai said:
I still think the core part of GBATemp was allways the Release list including screenshots and comments about new Games !
It was a feature that was already included in v1 and got removed with v4 which I honestly didn't like as well, mainly because of the missing release list ...

You know, the whole community years ago started with GBA Roms and even though the Roms were removed later there was still the release list and everyone were talking only about the new releases and stuff ... this was the whole purpose of the page, now it is a collection of everything and nothing all together.
The Name of this site is not fitting at all anymore.
It is like you have a Homepage called "how to become a baker" and in the end it transforms to a fashion magazine and still having the old name.

How necessary is a release list at this point though, really? It's been gone for so long that people have already found other sources for the release notices that they care about, and every time a noteworthy 3DS game dump happens, it's posted about as soon as a person finds it. It's not as if we are short on release news just because we don't have a release list. It's not as if people aren't still actively asking about, hunting down, and talking about the latest scene releases. It was kind of nice when we had it, but after a couple weeks on V4, I found I really didn't miss it. I guess it's because so many other sites chronicle releases already, it just feels like GBAtemp is more for discussion than chronicling at this point, whereas many chronicling sites aren't all that great for discussion.

I think you may be looking at the past with a little bit too much nostalgia as well. At least during the DS days, the most discussion a release got was when there was some new AP that needed to be cracked, so there would be 30 or 40 pages of "y mai r4 no wurk". Otherwise the vast majority of obscure releases would see few to no posts. In a day where Nintendo AP is handled by the firmware and not by the individual games, a release list to contain discussion seems even less necessary than ever before.

JoostinOnline · Jun 5, 2015

zoogie said:
It seems forum traffic is waaay down since after the switch. (members/guests online)
Usually there would be about around 200 members online right now, but it's down to 140.

I actually hadn't thought about it, but I am visiting a lot less.

Nathan Drake · Jun 5, 2015

JoostinOnline said:
I actually hadn't thought about it, but I am visiting a lot less.

Yes, I'm sure that's entirely because the layout is the web design equivalent of Nazi Germany and not because this is just a slow week for you on the site. Let's not look at any possible extraneous factors and immediately point the finger at the site redesign.

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