It's my great pleasure to announce that GBAtemp has surpassed 500,000 members! I want to give a personal thank you to every member that has joined our community, whether you're an active member, a lurker or just a dormant account from years gone by - thank you for being a part of GBAtemp.

This is a fantastic milestone in the history of our website and is yet another reason to celebrate our success as we approach the 20th anniversary of GBAtemp.

Congratulations to @switchboi69 who is likely the 500,000th true member (more details below), although if we're going by ID then that would be @Leo1006

Our database actually accounts for 588,212 members total at the time of this message which means our hard-working moderator team have nuked over 88,000 spambots, trolls and other time wasters!

To put it into perspective, what exactly does 500,000 people look like? Well, that number of people could fill Wembley Stadium 5 times over and is 80% the entire population of Macau. As a collective, the entire GBAtemp community would weigh over 35,000 metric tonnes, though given the nature of our hobby perhaps we could bump that number up a bit.

Now we begin counting down the days until our 20th anniversary of the forums which will take place on the 24th October. We have big plans to celebrate our 20th so be sure to join us!

Thanks once again to each and every one of you!

 

[Digital_Cheese]

Congratulations to the user below me for being part of this

Thanks for the congratulations. I shall accept this with great kindness

 

[ChiefReginod]

500k seems shockingly low. I'm surprised!

It does seem low, but only because so many cool things have come out of this community it's hard to believe it's not like ten times bigger. There are bigger sites out there, but it's quality vs quantity.

 

[Dust2dust]

I wish GBAtemp a long life! But still, I wonder if it will keep going strong if Nintendo's next console is unhackable, XBOX style. Nintendo is getting good at security, and they are learning with every new generation of consoles. The RCM bug for Switch was not their fault, it was Nvidia's. Since the site is mainly Nintendo focused, that would hurt the popularity a bit, I guess. Only time will tell.

 

[MiiJack]

Are Banned people counted in? Congrats every Tempers.

 

[Stwert]

Blimey, we’ve come a long way from what I remember, the best part of a couple decades ago, he said, stating the obvious. (wish I could get my original account back, lost access because of bloody email, but I digress).

Congratulations GBAtemp, here’s to the next 20 years, when I’ll be pushing 70

 

[ov3rkill]

Wowow! Congrats!

 

[Mikmoomamimocki]

On MAR10 day too! Nice! I just recently joined, so it's cool that I contributed to this milestone.

Came here for DSi Memory Pit and now I have a CFWed 3ds.

 

[SaulFabre]

Congrats to all the people who work for GBAtemp for 500,000 users!

Also congrats to all the GBAtemp community for making this dream true after so many years!

Long life to GBAtemp and all the Tempers who write and collaborate with the forums

 

[Lacius]

I want to give a personal thank you to every member that has joined our community​

"Every" member?

 

[zxr750j]

Back then Roms from irc, hardware from liksang and software from gbatemp, still the best site to get good info and help, I wonder why there are only 500k accounts…

 

[ZeroHunta]

A bit late but... Congrats!

 

[godreborn]

ya know dem extradition paper the queen got lulz @Parkour

except you're proving temp still affects you. is that really what you want? the person or persons who banned you are probably laughing their asses off, because you're so pissed. you did it to yourself though.

 

[godreborn]

you do realize that vb has a way to ip ban, and there's a plugin to eliminate vpn or proxies, right? there's probably an equivalent for xenforo. then, you won't be able to say shit.

 

[godreborn]

but im still using the site

they already tried ip banning me, butttttt im still fucking posting and looking at duh site lulz

just sign off. do you really want to look whinny? I mean you're proving that you got hurt by temp, so you're making yourself look stupid. like I said, maybe that's what whoever banned you wanted: you to get pissed off. now, you're doing exactly as they predicted. making a new account, getting banned/posts deleted, then making another one, and the process keeps repeating. it's up to you if you want to look foolish.

 

[godreborn]

go ahead, prove you're a man for once.

 

[godreborn]

talk big for a keyboard worry. what's the problem? did you not get enough love as a child? it would be a shame if your consoles failed without reason, because you certainly wouldn't get any help from me. go to some shitty site like repack where the ps4 help section is fucking two pages with most questions going unanswered. that's where you belong.

 

[godreborn]

I thought you were going to hire a hitman or something to off me. go ahead, I weight 260lbs, do honestly think he'd pose a threat to me?

 

[Willgheminass]

I am greatly appreciative of how well this site educates anyone interested in modding their own console and of any homebrew projects that have been ongoing and made throughout this era of game consoles. I couldn't have modded my stuff nor would I have gotten interested in getting as many game consoles for their modding capabilities until I found this site, before I EVER made an account. Thank you, and happy 500K members!

 

[HarveyHouston]

I'm actually glad I joined this community; it has opened my eyes to many things and helped sharpen my critical and passionate senses. Half a million members is a lot of people, and I've managed to "meet" quite a big chunk of that number. By meeting these people, I now understand better the state of the world.

Thus, I've just got to say it - Y'all need Jesus.

 

[p1ngpong]

I remember when we were at 150k members when I was made mod and people said me being staff would drive people away!