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

 

[FAST6191]

I like it changing home to your personal feel is awesome

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

Please please make the recent threads easier to access! Thanks!

You mean you do not have http://gbatemp.net/find-new/threads?recent=1 on your new tabs page?

 

[MrJason005]

dafuq is dis shit
Interesting layout. I do have to admit, it does need some getting used to.
*EDIT* I'm already missing the little notification shown in tabs. I usually pin many threads to my browser, and if a new post is posted, I check my alerts. Not with this version though...

 

[the_randomizer]

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



You mean you do not have http://gbatemp.net/find-new/threads?recent=1 on your new tabs page?

No, not currently, though that is a rather efficacious idea.

 

[HtheB]

Shitty ass fonts....

 

[Arecaidian Fox]

It certainly gives us something different to look at. On a positive note, the home page is much easier to load over a slow connection.

 

[frogboy]

After changing up my portal page, I'm a huge fan of the new look. Font will take a while, though.

Oooooh, edit history? Nice.

 

[Nathan Drake]

How are people so fixated on the font? I don't get it.

 

[the_randomizer]

How are people so fixated on the font? I don't get it.

The other font was easier on the eyes TBH.

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

seven hells this shit looks confusing

 

[Armadillo]

You've just described Windows 8 and smartphones/tablets. Shame that people are stepping away from the traditional.

At least you can avoid metro on 8 for the most part.

Every site, it's always the same thing. We are updating it.

Then the update comes and it's the good old giant squares, lots of vertical scrolling and the worst offender of all, shitty infinite scrolling, because pages are too much effort, much better to have a never ending list to scroll through.

 

[daxtsu]

How are people so fixated on the font? I don't get it.

Because this font is ugly and hard to read, in my opinion (my eyesight is perfectly fine, btw).

 

[Lucifer666]

Gonna take a bit of getting used to but it seems nice, well done fellas!

 

[MeerkatMario]

I didn't even know what happened at first. Last time I visited the site it had the old layout. Is there any option to switch back to the old layout? If no, is there anyone who can integrate it?

 

[Daku93]

Why is there no "Desktop Version" button on my phone? I hate responsive layouts. Other than that: nice redesign.

 

[filfat]

At least you can avoid metro on 8 for the most part.

Every site, it's always the same thing. We are updating it.

Then the update comes and it's the good old giant squares, lots of vertical scrolling and the worst offender of all, shitty infinite scrolling, because pages are too much effort, much better to have a never ending list to scroll through.

Have you ever thought about that 95% likes the modern look (Eg Win8 Android L, iOS7 etc)? Ofc website does what people like.


P.S. We need to update those ugly notification icons.

 

[HtheB]

Ok, I've added a screenshot with the things I did not like at all.


1 - The font is so out of order, it is showing very bad, as if it's cropped to it's death...
2 - then, there is this FAT CAPITAL FONTS THAT IS ALSO CONDENSED AT THE TOP, IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT (Noticed what I did there?)
3 - Very childish icons, does not fit on the GBATemp page at all...
4 - Is this some kind of book?... All I can see is just a whole page with only text. Doesn't look professional.... AT ALL....

just my 2 cents.

 

[tbb043]

I've already resorted to telling ABP to make #3 go away. I hate page elements that hang around when you scroll down like that.

 

[HtheB]

Just want to add that this website is NOT 1080p friendly at all...

 

[the_randomizer]

Can we stop those damning page elements from following page scrolls!? I assume that the mods are listening in for our feedback? I hope?

 

[razielleonhart]

is there a way to switch back to the old theme this one is too busy