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

 

[Silverthorn]

The front page is way too cluttered looking now, was nice and simple before, guess I'll have to get used to it.

I didn't like it either, but you could just customize it to suit your taste:

EDIT: It would indeed be nice if the pictures got resized properly.

 

[Clydefrosch]

at least use a normal font for the left sidebar links and the Home - Forums - Tutorials linkbar on top

I didn't like it either, but you could just customize it to suit your taste:

is there a way to make it look like that while also making the pictures belonging to those stories normalsized and above the story?
because the pictures really leem pointless at that size. even if for the future, you use small iconlike ones, thats just unnecessary

and where do i click to remove the reviews part anyways?

 

[Silverthorn]

at least use a normal font for the left sidebar links and the Home - Forums - Tutorials linkbar on top


is there a way to make it look like that while also making the pictures belonging to those stories normalsized and above the story?
because the pictures really leem pointless at that size. even if for the future, you use small iconlike ones, thats just unnecessary

and where do i click to remove the reviews part anyways?

I have no idea about the pictures honestly, probably a bug I guess, I just put the News thingy in the "Top" section in the customization menu.
To disable stuff, just put what you want to disable in the disabled box at the bottom of the menu.

 

[Heran Bago]

It looks really bad. Sorry you ruined your site layout.

 

[MeerkatMario]

I didn't like it either, but you could just customize it to suit your taste:

Well, I customized it to make it look like the V4 homepage, and I was expecting the images at the left of the news section to be displayed in full like in V4, but they are still not fitting very well. Anyway, I won't stop asking to get an option to switch back to V4 or older until I get something like this on my account settings or whatever they call it; I think it will be like a simple drop-down box with "Theme:" on the left of it.

 

[DjoeN]

Light theme and the shitbox front and centre on it... well I suppose there is no accounting for taste.

Yeah, you're right, this is way better

 

[Vipera]

Apparently my Userstyles still work with this version. Also I'll be working on more stuff, in case some users don't like certain things.

 

[JRave]

I would like the option to remove the left menu bar from the front page. On the dark theme it looks completely out of place and creates a huge waste of space below it. Open Sans is a terrible font, and I wish more sites would stop using it.

I notice that there are some options for what displays under recent content. Is it possible to add a customizable list of what sections it shows? There are some forum sections I have little interest in seeing show up in the recent topics. Being able to customize what shows there would be awesome. The corner scrolling thing is annoying mostly because of the icons not matching anything. I frequent another Xenforo forum that does not use this style in their themes, instead integrating it the top of each page.

 

[Marionumber1]

Looks like they decided to "modernize" GBATemp's look (make it flat and unappealing). I hope this disturbing UI design trend goes away, it's started infesting almost all software.

 

[MeerkatMario]

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.

 

[VMM]

I'm sorry to say but for me the site just looks bad.
I didn't like the visual of Xenforo, for me IPB looked much cooler,
but I understand why it had to be changes, security reasons,
but now it was purely aesthetical. Though I must say the new features are indeed nice and welcome.

 

[daxtsu]

I miss the quick section bar that was underneath the main toolbar (the one that had 3DS/Vita/etc). Now I have to click home or forum to bring up the sections with all of the consoles. Not the end of the world, but definitely annoying..

 

[MeerkatMario]

I'm sorry to say but for me the site just looks bad.
I didn't like the visual of Xenforo, for me IPB looked much cooler,
but I understand why it had to be changes, security reasons,
but now it was purely aesthetical. Though I must say the new features are indeed nice and welcome.

Sounds like a rhyme even if it isn't.

 

[VMM]

Sounds like a rhyme even if it isn't.

A rhyme? really? why?

 

[cherryduck]

Sorry, but it'll look worse on your PC.

Oh goodness, it's somehow much worse on my PC D: this is a joke right? I wish it was the first of April so I could believe this was April fools!

 

[MeerkatMario]

A rhyme? really? why?

There's no rhyming words at the end of each line of your post, but reading it sounds like reading a rhyme or poem.

 

[VMM]

There's no rhyming words at the end of each line of your post, but reading it sounds like reading a rhyme or poem.

I'm still not sure why it sounds like reading a rhyme or a poem, but I guess it's okay

 

[JoostinOnline]

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!

I'm sure you're aware that a large percentage of people dislike modern. I happen to be one of them, but I'm not going to whine about it because I understand that you can't please everyone. The couple few weeks are probably going to be filled with complaints though, so brace yourselves.

Personally, I'd add the old skin back as a separate option (if possible), but I know it's not up to me.

 

[MeerkatMario]

I'm sure you're aware that a large percentage of people dislike modern. I happen to be one of them, but I'm not going to whine about it because I understand that you can't please everyone. The couple few weeks are probably going to be filled with complaints though, so brace yourselves.

Personally, I'd add the old skin back as a separate option (if possible), but I know it's not up to me.

I'm also one of the people who dislike modern. And, if you were able to add the old skin as a separate option, I'd be happy not to wait.

 

[the_randomizer]

I'm also one of the people who dislike modern. And, if you were able to add the old skin as a separate option, I'd be happy not to wait.

I second this, er, third it, there should be an option for the old skin, whether or not that's feasible, or even plausible to add, I can't say. It's not for me to decide.