Let's say it again, most people use this website for the forums.

[Ondrashek06]

When I type "gbatemp.net" into the address bar, I except to get thrown straight into the forums, but instead I get thrown on the "customizable" homepage. There is nothing customizable about it. The only thing that isn't just admin-promoted posts is your own notes, so I set the notes to link straight to the forums. However, I still have the huge "newsfeed" banner LOCKED on the top of the page and there's no way to either put it to the bottom or permanently remove it, as I do not care about it and it just distracts me from the forums.

If I actually cared about the admins' personal opinions, I would click on the "news and announcements" forums and read the threads on there.

Let's say it again: This is a site where you can discuss Nintendo products, and get advice on homebrew as it is the biggest forum that allows this stuff.
If I wanted Nintendo news, I would read the DOZENS of other websites that repeat and milk the same exact message. Even a small, "stability" FW update has like 50 articles the second it releases. No need to add a 51st and shove it in my face. I already know.

Stop trying to repurpose this website to something else by shoving stuff in people's faces. Make a subdomain like "news.gbatemp.net" with this stuff for the people that are interested in it.

Also, STOP pushing "TempStyle n+1" on people that want to use older TempStyles. I never wanted to use 3.2, as I was used to 3, yet here I am using that. You'd expect the "theme" button to let you select "TempStyle Legacy" or something, instead it is just a dark/light theme selection.

 

[Issac]

bookmark: https://gbatemp.net/forums/
ezpz

 

[The Catboy]

I am part of GBAtemp for the site as a whole, but I am not sure what your issues are. What do you mean by

I still have the huge "newsfeed" banner LOCKED on

There is the main site navigation at the top of each page but it's pretty small and most websites do that these days.

Let's say it again: This is a site where you can discuss Nintendo products, and get advice on homebrew as it is the biggest forum that allows this stuff.
If I wanted Nintendo news, I would read the DOZENS of other websites that repeat and milk the same exact message. Even a small, "stability" FW update has like 50 articles the second it releases. No need to add a 51st and shove it in my face. I already know.

Stop trying to repurpose this website to something else by shoving stuff in people's faces. Make a subdomain like "news.gbatemp.net" with this stuff for the people that are interested in it.

This has literally always been GBAtemp. I've been a member for over 11 years now and I can tell you that the Temp has barely changed its main formula. The site has gone through a lot of changes over the years but most of what we see today is pretty much how it's been since the start.

 

[Kioku]

The epitome of "first world problem". Thanks for the laugh!

Fun fact: What you're complaining about has been GBAtemp for yeeeeears.

 

[Issac]

This has literally always been GBAtemp. I've been a member for over 11 years now and I can tell you that the Temp has barely changed its main formula. The site has gone through a lot of changes over the years but most of what we see today is pretty much how it's been since the start.

Right? Coming up on 18 years now, and sure there were different kind of news on the front page at first (scene releases information boxes) but... yeah It's always been something like this.

 

[shaunj66]

Stop trying to repurpose this website to something else by shoving stuff in people's faces. Make a subdomain like "news.gbatemp.net" with this stuff for the people that are interested in it.

Fun fact: this website was predominantly news-only long before the forums arrived.

As for your suggestion, no. Bookmark the forums instead, as previously suggested.

 

[djpannda]

Lol so you want…. Reddit?

 

[Supercool330]

The default homepage is great. You get scene news, reviews, and recent content all right up top. It's great for keeping up on what's going on, and finding a conversation to join if you're interested. If you want to start on the forums, then just type gbatemp.net/forums instead of gbatemp.net. This complaint makes no sense to me.

 

[Edgarska]

Did you do a site-wide poll to figure out what most people use gbatemp for, or did you just assume that since you use it a certain way everyone else does too?

 

[JuanMena]

I thought this was a dating site

I've been trying to lure people to my apartment, but all I get are warnings and posts removed

 

[Dust2dust]

Right? Coming up on 18 years now, and sure there were different kind of news on the front page at first (scene releases information boxes) but... yeah It's always been something like this.

I miss the good old scene releases threads. Please bring them back! Nah, just kidding. They were fun back in the GBA or NDS era, but no longer needed for Switch. I haven't used them in years. Everything's fine as it is, the site is great.

 

[duwen]

This is a site where you can discuss Nintendo products, and get advice on homebrew as it is the biggest forum that allows this stuff.

I guess that's all YOU use it for, but it seems that you haven't noticed all the other stuff it covers and how many people here have interest in platforms beyond Nintendo.

The limited site you want is still here, so why moan about all the extra stuff that most of us appreciate that's always been here?
You might as well be saying "I don't look at the Sega forum so get rid of it".

 

[Archolm]

Disagree wholeheartedly. I like the news posts, as well as the reviews.

 

[Eight Bit Alien]

I've been coming here since 2006, and I think losing the news feed / homepage would be an absolute tragedy.
I have no idea how OP could possibly find that content objectionable.

 

[BORTZ]

I thought this was a dating site

It's not???
That would explain why I haven't gotten a match in 15 years...

 

[JuanMena]

It's not???
That would explain why I haven't gotten a match in 15 years...

Do you want me to draw yet another twisted fantasy?

 

[FAST6191]

Others have taken the practical aspects but I think I can go one further on the claim of people using it for the forums.

I have been able to spam up the front page for a number of years now. News, reviews, original content (in my case usually more technical in nature but can go other ways) and big secret of user engagement bait as well (share your stories, opinions on this concept, what do you know of, what do you have...) with a slight twist to make it more than a boring listicle (favourite game is boring as everybody has that, and frankly for as awful as metacritic is a genre/console search and sort by score will probably get you what you need to know, favourite game that nobody has likely played in the last year https://gbatemp.net/threads/favourite-game-nobody-in-the-world-has-played-in-the-last-year.593578/ being a bit of a twist as everybody likes a hidden gem).

By whatever metric you care to have -- views, replies, downloads, likes, length of activity before death, engagement from regular users, engagement from new users, ratios of anything previously mentioned, haven't bothered to track outside links and most times it happens it would have happened anyway (sometimes we get scooped by even mainstream sites from stuff that started on the forums)... then you see a massive shift sticking it on the portal either in general or promoting it after leaving it languishing in the forums for a while, or indeed not promoting to the portal despite it being entirely in line with previous efforts. This also applies to reviews -- before they were auto cross posted anybody that did a portal cross post, including after the fact, saw a bump as well. Similarly if focus is split (some will write an overview article and redirect to thread on the forums, others will essentially mean there are two threads on the same subject active at once) then the portal one tends to get a lot more traction than the other by all the same metrics.
I will give that things are more informal than rigorous and both differences in articles (in my case what the overlap between ROM hacking, advanced game porting/reverse engineering (which I did not put on the portal), hacking concepts (no portal but was stuck), how to be a game journalist though as it is a download, I am not sure where those numbers came from, how to find glitches in /break systems in games I don't know -- I am interested in all of those but the fact alone I wrote long articles on them says I am freak) as well as having to back out timeframes (summer vs winter) and other activity levels. Being on the portal is also not an assured success either -- even ignoring flash carts that 5 people have but professional obligation/site subject matter says it goes up then there have been things that failed to gain any traction (I did some articles on the game industry stocks some years ago, nice enough little writeups as these things go, nobody cared). Alas we have never had a proper control either and posted EOF style nonsense (April Fools does not count) to see what goes there.

Do I go on the portal for more than checking I have not screwed up the formatting (again, possibly of the whole thing in a few embarrassing cases) or maybe when sitting on a computer not my own and killing 5 minutes? No and I imagine most people ever likely to read this are in a similar position. To say most, much less having it vs a simple forum index as the main entry point? Not even close.

 

[Ondrashek06]

Fun fact: this website was predominantly news-only long before the forums arrived.

As for your suggestion, no. Bookmark the forums instead, as previously suggested.

You have literally denied every single one of my suggestions posted here. Why do I need the huge image panel LOCKED ON THE TOP OF THE HOMEPAGE. Letting people move/remove it would literally harm nobody, as the people who want it there would keep it there and others would remove it.

I wish this site had more competent and open-minded administrators, and less entitled people who think that this site is the perfect thing ever created and any suggestion for change is treated as heresy.

 

[Kioku]

Can't imagine coming in here, making some of the weirdest demands... Then insulting people when you don't get your way.

 

[VinsCool]

bookmark: https://gbatemp.net/forums/
ezpz

This is by far the best option, I don't see the necessity to make cheese out of something so trivial.

The main page has all the main component, and from there you go to the category of your liking.

And if you only want to see the forums, and only the forums, then https://gbatemp.net/forums/ is all you need to enter.

This has been the way to go for a really long time, and obviously this won't change any time soon.