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

 

[the_randomizer]

Still no word on how one goes about changing the homepage.

 

[Deleted User]

Still no word on how one goes about changing the homepage.

Hover over the Home button, and click "Customize your Portal".

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

Here's a small bug: I have to hover my cursor over the alerts box to see if there are new ones. It won't automatically show the little red numbers for me.

 

[the_randomizer]

Hover over the Home button, and click "Customize your Portal".

You're talking of PC or mobile? I'm on PC right now.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Don't like it. Just another site using giant squares to make it easy for sausage fingers on a touch screen to use.

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

 

[goober]

Nice for the added functionality but it's a pretty terrible design. I prefer utilitarian designs for information access. This new design is just...bad from that perspective.

 

[raulpica]

w00t

 

[Deleted User]

You're talking of PC or mobile? I'm on PC right now.

PC

Here's a small bug: I have to hover my cursor over the alerts box to see if there are new ones. It won't automatically show the little red numbers for me.

I'm having the same issue.

 

[breaktemp]

Finally...we have achieved super saiyan god super saiyan GBATemp V5 !!

* not even our final form *

I can't wait to use the new ask-gbatemp feature "

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

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

 

[yodamerlin]

After some testing, the admin login page can be accidentally accessed by:

1. Going to customise the front page.
2. Opening a new tab and logging out of GBAtemp.
3. Save the customisations.
4. Log in when the prompt comes up.
5. Redirected to admin login. Have no idea why.

Can anyone else test and confirm?

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

After some testing, the admin login page can be accidentally accessed by:

1. Going to customise the front page.
2. Opening a new tab and logging out of GBAtemp.
3. Save the customisations.
4. Log in when the prompt comes up.
5. Redirected to admin login. Have no idea why.

Can anyone else test and confirm?

Why doesn't my account have admin privileges!?!

 

[VinsCool]

alerts works properly in mobile though.

 

[Margen67]

0/10 still can't like profile status replies

 

[Deleted User]

After some testing, the admin login page can be accidentally accessed by:

1. Going to customise the front page.
2. Opening a new tab and logging out of GBAtemp.
3. Save the customisations.
4. Log in when the prompt comes up.
5. Redirected to admin login. Have no idea why.

Can anyone else test and confirm?

I'll test this. (I kinda wanna see what the admin login page looks like)

 

[filfat]

When can we expect flat icons to replace the now outdated fuglyui icons? Other than that great update

 

[Sicklyboy]

After some testing, the admin login page can be accidentally accessed by:

1. Going to customise the front page.
2. Opening a new tab and logging out of GBAtemp.
3. Save the customisations.
4. Log in when the prompt comes up.
5. Redirected to admin login. Have no idea why.

Can anyone else test and confirm?

This definitely causes it to happen @tj_cool

.

 

[Nathan Drake]

I've spent the past ten minutes with V5, and I like it. The recent content box has gone back to what it once was, allowing you to display a range of content, which makes it a lot easier to integrate lesser navigated parts of the site for visibility and use (like Blogs, Ask GBAtemp, etc.). The front page looks clean, and otherwise it took me all of five seconds to adjust to the layout. I honestly don't get this "i dun liek change" stuff. It's not as if they shook the very foundation of your world by altering the way content is displayed.

One small bug I've noticed:
- The recent content box doesn't mark anything as read, which is slightly inconvenient

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Fucking wow, this looks awesome!

 

[Mr. Mysterio]

I've spent the past ten minutes with V5, and I like it. The recent content box has gone back to what it once was, allowing you to display a range of content, which makes it a lot easier to integrate lesser navigated parts of the site for visibility and use (like Blogs, Ask GBAtemp, etc.). The front page looks clean, and otherwise it took me all of five seconds to adjust to the layout. I honestly don't get this "i dun liek change" stuff. It's not as if they shook the very foundation of your world by altering the way content is displayed.

One small bug I've noticed:
- The recent content box doesn't mark anything as read, which is slightly inconvenient

I'm not asking for the new style to be reverted, I'm only asking for a setting in the user preferences to change it back if certain users prefer the old style.