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

 

[Thirty3Three]

Oh, god.


... I say with the utmost kindness.

 

[Armadillo]

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

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.

 

[migles]

i don't like the new gbatemp... the home page looks like a big mess, everything is out of order..
the design looks a bit like windows 8 metro...,
the reply box is a bit too white before clicking on it, and now its just black and white buttons, give it some colour! even the text color button is grey...
the top right menu (the mini profile buttons) sucks... it's so tiny and feels like i just lost identity... how about add the avatar or make it like a card?

i kinda like some changes like +quote instead quote

the ask section seems really great. for that gateway threads that appear everytime. and to separate general info.

but the passive aggressive message "thank you for whistelist gbatemp on your adblock" >:C it makes me angry >:C and now i don't do it!

 

[daxtsu]

Have you ever thought about that 95% likes the modern look (Eg Win8 Android L, iOS7 etc)?

[Citation needed]

Have any sources for that? I'm genuinely curious.

 

[xBleedingSoulx]

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

 

[WiiCube_2013]

How many people here miss the old style so much that they've used the wayback to view it?

That looks so much cleaner and far more organised than V5. I wish I could use V4 theme instead.

 

[Nathan Drake]

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

You can customize the home page by hovering over the home button and clicking customize portal or whatever it says. You are free to remove everything you don't want to look at and arrange it almost identically to V4 if that works better for you. Play around with the arrangements until you find something that works best for you.

 

[blindseer]

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.

God I cant wait til this whole flat craze is over and we can go back to the internet and operating systems not looking like crap. Seriously what the heck is with the minimalistic look?

 

[the_randomizer]

Hey, I'm actually seeing notifications pop up now!

 

[Clydefrosch]

Hah! Pretty clever, but even if you try to push your jokes almost two months later, I'm not falling for your April Fools Joke this year.

 

[migles]

Hey, I'm actually seeing notifications pop up now!

notifications always worked like a charm here. so that was your browser fault you chrome peasant

edit test

 

[Sheimi]

Holy shit, this is way different.

 

[the_randomizer]

notifications always worked like a charm here. so that was your browser fault you chrome peasant

At least I'm not using Internet Explorer 6 ;O;

Holy shit, this is way different.

Damn right, not sure how I feel.

 

[migles]

At least I'm not using Internet Explorer 6 ;O;

it actually worked better than 8\9\10

 

[the_randomizer]

it actually worked better than 8\9\10

Of course you had many vulnerabilities and security holes, etc. Just because it worked better doesn't mean it was more secure. That being said, I'm sticking to Chrome, but dayum this font hurts my eyes. Can't we change it back?

 

[vayanui8]

I wish we could use the old theme still and it was a choice which we used

Edit: The watched threads button seems to be gone which is rather inconvenient since I used it to see if I accidentally skipped an alert

 

[Zerousen]

I think the only thing that I really like is the way the quick reply box looks. Otherwise, I can't say that I necessarily hate the new homepage or anything, but it does look a bit too WIP, and if the idea was to get a more metro ui look, I can't say that I am quite convinced. Maybe a more material ui design would look more pleasing, as well as still keeping the modern feel to it.

 

[Hells Malice]

Aesthetically not a fan but the upgrades sound good. I despise the new look for the alert/message bar though.

 

[zoogie]

Is there any way to customize the front page?
nevermind, im blind :/

 

[MeerkatMario]

Can someone give us an option to switch to the V4 theme? I actually don't like V5 a bit, but I'm just asking if there's a way to switch to V4, like other people do.