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

 

[DarkShinigami]

what happened to my chat box. i could of tolerated all the changes BUT MY CHATBOX IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE

 

[Nathan Drake]

what happened to my chat box. i could of tolerated all the changes BUT MY CHATBOX IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE

Hover over home, customize, add shitbox back, rejoice or cry as necessary.

 

[DarkShinigami]

im not too crazy on this update.... just when i get use it changes

 

[Nathan Drake]

im not too crazy on this update.... just when i get use it changes

You realize that V4 was introduced back in October 2012, right? Over 2.5 years seems like a long time to just be getting used to something.

Edit: Granted, V4 was kind of bare bones at first compared to V4 just two or three months after launch since the switch was made out of immediate need, but that still left a lot of time to get well acquainted with it.

 

[Danny600kill]

Is there a way for me to set it back to looking like V4 or is this just how it is now?

I'm browse temp most days and haven't posted in ages, to then come on and find these changes i thought the website was broken at first , unfortunately I'm not a fan (Maybe I'm just stuck in the past), I just think it's too cluttered for my liking and I can't really enjoy the homepage anymore

 

[Deleted User]

Is there a way for me to set it back to looking like V4 or is this just how it is now?

I'm browse temp most days and haven't posted in ages, to then come on and find these changes i thought the website was broken at first , unfortunately I'm not a fan (Maybe I'm just stuck in the past), I just think it's too cluttered for my liking and I can't really enjoy the homepage anymore

If it's too cluttered for you, you can customize it.

 

[Nathan Drake]

A general suggestion: a common complaint seems to be that the stock homepage is too cluttered, has too much information, etc. Maybe it would be best to try a different stock arrangement to see how people feel.

 

[Danny600kill]

If it's too cluttered for you, you can customize it.

I've just been playing with it and I can't make it look nice in my honest opinion

I'll try and get used to it but I don't think that me in my old ways can get used to it

 

[Localhorst86]

I don't understand why people likes tapatalk. It's interface is ugly, confusing and not much appealing.

The new mobile site layout though, is very confortable to use, and pretty much what I wanted tapatalk to be.

True, the Android versions were horrible last time i used them. The Windows Phone Version and Windows 8.1 version are decent, though.

 

[Nathan Drake]

True, the Android versions were horrible last time i used them. The Windows Phone Version and Windows 8.1 version are decent, though.

But who actually owns a Windows phone?

 

[YetoJesse]

The mobile layout is a touch buggy right now. It's a work in progress.

Yeah, that doesn't help if you're still stuck with the blocky layout they are stuck in. I can't change the page it's CSS. V4 was comfortable, The bar above, the bar on the utmost left, locations... I liked scrolling through the updates and new segments right in the middle... It just seems too crowded in my eyes at the moment...

 

[Localhorst86]

But who actually owns a Windows phone?

Well, obviously I do. And Tapatalk has even more advantages:

- less data consumption as graphics are not loaded every time
- Push notifications for new messages, quoted posts, etc.
- mobile optimized
- all forums in one convenient place.

 

[DeShelly]

How the other versions of gbatemp was? v3 - v2 - v 1?

 

[Localhorst86]

How the other versions of gbatemp was? v3 - v2 - v 1?

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net explains it

 

[FAST6191]

How the other versions of gbatemp was? v3 - v2 - v 1?

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net
http://web.archive.org/web/20030930031030/http://www.gbatemp.net/

Things are constantly being tweaked, added to and improved (or dashed away from in the case of IPB the other year) as staff come and go, consoles and hacks for them come and go, discussion of given areas rises up* and other features that are good to have appear but yeah this is the fifth major iteration of the forums since the forums were made (you can read the history but originally it was more IRC, ROM site and a guest book).

*last September for instance the PC section was expanded considerably, the 3ds sub forums increased in number not so long before then and books, TV and movies also appeared at one point.

 

[Deleted User]

I just noticed the "Thank you for whitelisting GBATemp on your ad blocker" underneath the ads.
i forgot to whitelist gbatemp on my school computer

 

[Cyan]

No picture of v4/xenforo on Wiki ?
I don't think I kept screenshot before the update.

 

[Deleted User]

No picture of v4/xenforo on Wiki ?
I don't think I kept screenshot before the update.

I think I could grab one with the internet archive thing, but it may look a little off.

Edit:

I think it looks exact, actually.

 

[Alkéryn]

Can't connect with tapatalk anymore

 

[nxwing]

Can't connect with tapatalk anymore

Tapatalk has been broken with the new update. No more push notifs.