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

 

[laudern]

Home screen sucks balls. 3/10 - Don't buy

 

[KingVamp]

Can you not customize on a touchscreen? While it does become flat, idk, it looks cleaner to me. Maybe they can add some 3d to the theme. The font, I don't mind either way. If they go back to the old font, it wouldn't bother me. Maybe customize fonts? I think I actually miss the home page displaying the whole OP of threads.

 

[AceWarhead]

I think the largest issue is mainly the layout has tons of wasted pace on a 1080p screen, along with some clutter of that home toolbar-thingy on the top of the page. But I do see how it could be great.

 

[Nathan Drake]

In the recent content column, I noticed something horrible. My world is collapsing all around me. A WTS topic....had the GREEN CART ICON. GREEN. NOT RED. I don't know how to cope.

 

[the_randomizer]

And the following text bar on the top right corner, fix pls. Also, the tabs that say "HOME FORUM TUTORIALS" Please fix that horrific font.

 

[DJPlace]

i don't know but sometimes upgrades are bad IMO. (just saying not dissing or anything like that just saying)

 

[GhostLatte]

I wonder if 2Slack will continue to use Tapatalk

 

[nxwing]

How about a multilikes feature that me and Margen can find useful?

 

[Nathan Drake]

I vote for total removal of the like feature, to counter the above.

 

[nxwing]

I vote for total removal of the like feature, to counter the above.

I dislike this. Why must the button I like to click be removed? Are people pissed off because I liked almost everything in this thread?

 

[GhostLatte]

I vote for total removal of the like feature, to counter the above.

Didn't likes used to mean something?

 

[nxwing]

Didn't likes used to mean something?

Not until Margen started spamming it.

 

[daxtsu]

While we're on the subject of the like button, maybe add a stat counter somewhere (perhaps in the same place that shows you how many likes you have in general) that keeps track of how many likes one has received from @Margen67?

Note: I'm joking.

 

[AceWarhead]

Here's an idea:
How about a dislike button?

 

[Nathan Drake]

Here's an idea:
How about a dislike button?

Or how about we avoid adding in more easily abused buttons?

 

[nxwing]

Here's an idea:
How about a dislike button?

I wonder what will happen if someone likes and dislikes the same thing.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

I wonder what will happen if someone likes and dislikes the same thing.

Margen67 will totally break the point of having likes and dislikes. lol

Edit: The only comments he/she can't like are his/her own ones.

 

[filfat]

Everyone likes it so much, that Microsoft are reverting it on 10 and letting you have the option of the old start menu. Clearly they are putting that change through and all the work it takes, for the small 5% that dislike modern design.

Lets not forget, HP offering Windows 7, "back by popular demand" on their machines over Windows 8. Strange moves to appease such a minority.

I don't think websites are doing it because 95% like it, I think they are doing it, so they don't have to maintain a seperate mobile site/version because the desktop version is unsuitable/hard to use.

No Start menu != Flat design, as you can see in Win10 the start menu uses a awesome flat design.

 

[Opium]

Awesome! I'm loving this. Responsive design is the way to go. Nice work

 

[Kioku]

It's great that we finally have a mobile version. However buggy it may be, it's welcome.