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

 

[MrJason005]

For me, Win8 is much more optimized than Win7. I persume the same will be for Win10
Plus, it looks a lot nicer than Win8

 

[Crass]

Good work on the site redesign. Give it 2 weeks and everyone will have forgotten about the old design.

 

[DragorianSword]

Like the new design and costumisabillity a lot!
Also, is it just me or does the site load faster?
Certainly feels that way.

 

[pwsincd]

I have noted it down for a future customization option.


The recent posts thing should bring you to the latest unread post, although only when there is a last unread post. In other cases it goes to the last post.
Note that read threads are now also bold, as noted above.
If the block is not showing the unread links properly, please let me know.

As for the Top-right bar, we are trying to find better icons. Discussion here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/notification-box-icons-help-us-find-better-ones.389837/

i See , i just trialled a few threads i never ever been in before , and yes it throws me to the last post made , at this point in me being in this thread i have no clue whats been said , so from that point of view wouldnt it suit to load on the OP rather than the LP as this way it introduces the reader to the thread

 

[Nathan Drake]

i See , i just trialled a few threads i never ever been in before , and yes it throws me to the last post made , at this point in me being in this thread i have no clue whats been said , so from that point of view wouldnt it suit to load on the OP rather than the LP as this way it introduces the reader to the thread

I don't particularly understand what's going on with your end of things. Here's how it should work, and how it works for me:

If a topic is entirely unread, clicking the title goes to the first post.
If the topic is entirely read, clicking the title goes to the first post.
If the topic is partially unread, clicking the title goes to the first unread post.
If the topic is partially unread or completely read, clicking how long ago the post was made (generally under the username) goes to the most recent post (or at least the particular post for that time depending on how long ago your refresh was).

That is basically it for how the forum reacts to different situations for topic clicking. You should probably specify where you're experiencing this issue (ie: the recent content box, specific sections, etc.).

Edit: Although now when I click a thread in the most recent box, it just goes to the most recent post. Has this been changed in the past day or something? As just earlier today even, clicking an already read topic defaulted to the first post.

Edit 2: I give up. Sometimes it's reacting the way I listed above, and other times it's just jumping straight to the most recent post. I can't seem to find any rhyme or reason as to why it's jumping around like it is.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I hate it, the old changes were welcome, these are not.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I hate it, the old changes were welcome, these are not.

Once again I say: tell the staff what you like and what you dislike. Make sure you've explored available options for your gripes before you immediately write them off as bad. Most people, once they've customized things a bit, have much fewer gripes with the new layout.

 

[Costello]

Once again I say: tell the staff what you like and what you dislike. Make sure you've explored available options for your gripes before you immediately write them off as bad. Most people, once they've customized things a bit, have much fewer gripes with the new layout.

I appreciate what you're doing, but you can't win with these people there's too many of them
All we can do is listen to their griefs and decide whether we take action or not.
But it does help when they're specific, hah

 

[Flame]

*waves fist behind Costello*

tell them ungrateful sods how it goes down.





update is good.

 

[JoostinOnline]

I didn't say this is a good attempt at flat style, it isn't. However I haven't came across one person who doesn't like Android L or iOS 7/8 style more than what they had before. Flat UI IS popular and it isn't going anywhere Google and Apple would NEVER switch to it if people disliked it, especially not after what happened with Windows 8. So let's face it the majority if not all likes Flat UI more than the old design, but as I said before GBATEMP's interpretation of flat UI is just plain wrong and ugly.

Dude, I thought you were past the "pulling statistics out your ass" stage. We've talked about this on facebook. Nobody will ever take you seriously when you say things like "So let's face it the majority if not all likes Flat UI more than the old design". Suggesting that you might actually know what EVERYBODY likes is just...wrong. That nearly qualifies as delusions of grandeur.

You'll find many complaints about the new iOS/Android design if you'd actually look. It's the same with apps. Every time an app switches to flat, you'll find dozens (sometimes hundreds) of complaints about how "realism is better than flat" in the review section. It's gotten to the point where apps leave a "classic" option now, or make two different versions. I've seen a lot of apps have serious rating drops because of it.

I'm disappointed that GBAtemp staff doesn't plan to optionally add the old skin back (it would certainly make a lot of people happy), but I'm glad that @tj_cool did at least address it. Experience has shown that they'll get less hate because they were open.

 

[filfat]

Dude, I thought you were past the "pulling statistics out your ass" stage. We've talked about this on facebook. Nobody will ever take you seriously when you say things like "So let's face it the majority if not all likes Flat UI more than the old design". Suggesting that you might actually know what EVERYBODY likes is just...wrong. That nearly qualifies as delusions of grandeur.

You'll find many complaints about the new iOS/Android design if you'd actually look. It's the same with apps. Every time an app switches to flat, you'll find dozens (sometimes hundreds) of complaints about how "realism is better than flat" in the review section. It's gotten to the point where apps leave a "classic" option now, or make two different versions. I've seen a lot of apps have serious rating drops because of it.

I'm disappointed that GBAtemp staff doesn't plan to optionally add the old skin back (it would certainly make a lot of people happy), but I'm glad that @tj_cool did at least address it. Experience has shown that they'll get less hate because they were open.

The fact that ALL the major 3 mobile os:es uses flat UI is proof that the majority of people likes it, if that weren't the case Android or/and iOS would have switched back the now dated style.

 

[vayanui8]

The fact that ALL the major 3 mobile os:es uses flat UI is proof that the majority of people likes it, if that weren't the case Android or/and iOS would have switched back the now dated style.

I'd argue that most people are just impartial to it. Some like it, some hate it, and most probably don't care enough to give a fuck. That being said if they did revert it I don't think you'd hear alot of complaining.

 

[JoostinOnline]

The fact that ALL the major 3 mobile os:es uses flat UI is proof that the majority of people likes it, if that weren't the case Android or/and iOS would have switched back the now dated style.

Actually it doesn't prove that, it just suggests it. Regardless, the majority is over 50% by definition.

 

[filfat]

Actually it doesn't prove that, it just suggests it. Regardless, the majority is over 50% by definition.

Point to you

 

[Tomobobo]

Eh I think it looks good.

 

[enarky]

Congrats on the redesign, looking a lot more modern now.

I have just one little problem: the "recent content" links previously went to first unread/first comment, now they always go to the last comment posted. Any way to change that? Made following those meandering megathreads with high post volume a lot easier. Thanks!

EDIT: Oh, I see you're discussing that already. Sorry for duplicate content...

EDIT #2: Yupp, like others mentioned, normal font for read messages doesn't work for me, too, in the "recent content" box.

 

[Youkai]

darn this is getting worse every time -.-
I still miss V3 as it was the best we ever had !

 

[night_hawk]

Hi, there's a plan to re-enable tapatalk? Navigation from mobile is really bad. Thank you

 

[Nathan Drake]

darn this is getting worse every time -.-
I still miss V3 as it was the best we ever had !

As nice as V3 was at the time, I have a hard time as seeing it better than V5. V5 just looks sleeker than V3 in pretty much every way with more features, better general organization, and a look that fits a website in 2015. It comes with more customization as well to make the front page comfortable for everybody. All in all, with just a bit more fine tuning, most of it already in progress, V5 could and will be the best version of GBAtemp yet.

V3 almost looks retro in its own way. It looked good when I joined back in 2011, but I wouldn't go back.

 

[Online]

The customization is nothing short of awesome! I really like this feature.

but


dat font doe o_o