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diff --git a/news.yaml b/news.yaml index 8afbcd0d..3b5d2b5c 100644 --- a/news.yaml +++ b/news.yaml @@ -1,3 +1,45 @@ +Name: Anachronist's Library +Directory: anachronists-library +Date: January 28, 2025 +Content: |- + Hallo again! + + <hr class="split"> + + This is a challenging news entry to tackle, not really because this update is gobsmacking different from the rest - although there *is* a lot to get excited over! - nor because [[news-entry:wiki-finalization|the wiki's course is changing]] - it isn't, except in the usual ways! No, it's challenging because... we're late. LOL. We planned for a new years release, and, well, you know how plans go. + + To kick this off, here are the albums now new to the wiki: + + - Added by Jebb, we've got the full *two* discographies of [[group:kalibration|Kalibration]]! You'll recognize Kali from [[track:upward-movement-dave-owns|Upward Movement]] (and such later hits as [[track:stride]]), as well as one of the earliest fan-unofficial albums, [[album:tomb-of-the-ancestors]]. His music outside Homestuck is stirring and pretty intensely diverse. Jebb also added the fanventure discography for [[group:stalemate]], and [[group:what-is-lost-in-the-mines|mines]]' recent space sim soundtrack for [[album:extermination-shock]]! + + - Both of Bowman's latest releases, [[album:your-majesty]] and [[album:bowmanstuck]], respectively added by Surge and ruby! We've personally shuffled the first of these about a hundred times, and Bowmanstuck is *the* canonical collection of *all* Bowman's own Homestuck music. A delightful listen, too, of course. We've also reworked [[album:archive]] into its proper 2024 form, now with all its own history comprehensively consolidated in one place. + + - Both the latest releases from [[group:oceanfalls]] - the third solo Oceanfables album, [[album:foresight-and-retrospect]] by [[artist:wights-end]], and the latest team release, [[album:oceanfalls-vol-6]], featuring as ever many new and returning artists! Plus, recent [[group:stuck-at-home-con|SAHCon]] collab [[album:fraymotif-fighters]], dual-disc [[group:desynced|Desynced]] team album [[album:anthology-ii]], and [[group:deconrecon|Deconrecon]] albums [[album:duodenary]] by [[group:cristata]] and [[album:in-medias-res]] from the team! (Contributions here vary wildly. Thanks to everyone that helped out!! Go get the full info [[static:changelog#28-jan-2025|in the changelog]]!!) + + - Courtesy Lilith - a huge, and mostly [[group:fandom|fandom]] variety! Albums include [[album:loftlocked-vol-1]], both [[group:freeroam]] volumes, [[album:sbahj-the-album]] of [[track:the-sock-ruse|Sock Ruse]] fame, [[album:in-isolation]] by [[artist:david-ellis]], and [[album:improvised-touhou-music-with-annoying-commentary]] by [[group:toby-fox]]; also whole fandom-discographies in [[group:8reath-of-light]], [[artist:raid]], [[artist:ludicrousfalcon]], and plenty more besides! + + - And from ruby, on top of *all* [[group:the-paradox-music-team]]'s *GBA Pokémon Unbound* 187-track fan-soundtrack and remaster series, also more works with contributions from [[group:toby-fox]]! These include [[artist:itoki-hana]] album [[album:pray]] (they'd later collab on [[album:skies-forever-blue]] and [[album:the-greatest-living-show]]), [[artist:houshou-marine]] single [[track:dead-maams-chest]] and premiere album [[album:ahoy-youre-all-pirates]], [[artist:camellia]]'s [[album:uufo]] and Camellia/Toby collab [[album:theatore-creatore]]! + + Phew! That's a lot of music. As ever, all the additions are [[static:changelog#28-jan-2025|in the changelog]]. There's a lot of stuff besides, so we really encourage you to check it out, but of special note, many, many of the [[group:official|Official Discography]] tracks now have *a lot* more commentary (plus lots of fandom stuff too). Those additions are thanks to serious web-scouring and wiki-formatting efforts by Lilith (so please say thank you Lilith!!), as well as transcribed from Bowman's big SAHCon 2024 [walk through time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85VXWZTg-vo). On top of that, we've filled properly dated citations for nearly every bit of official commentary, large or small, and noted what we still can't trace earlier than [[media:misc/commentary-collection.txt|our original commentary source]]! + + But did you know this update... comes with new features?? [[static:changelog#28-jan-2025|A <em>lot</em> of them]], even!? It's true! + + Our favorite new feature is, well, sorry, chronology links. [[news-entry:snow-pollen-appreciation-station|Again.]] It turns out the last design just didn't last, and now we've rethought chronology links all the way through. Here's where they are instead! + + <img src="media/misc/news/ttcl-graphics.png" align="center" width="700" height="540"> + + Graphic design is my passion. + + Chronology links now live in the main content area of just about any wiki page, instead of using room in the nav bar. You only ever see one set of chronology links at once - the one for the artist you're hovering! - and you get to see names, not just generic "Previous" and "Next" links. And most exciting to us, this works for *any* kind of credit or contribution, all over the website. Which albums is an artist the album artist for? Which albums did an artist do banner art for? Which tracks did an artist do, just earlier and later? Follow their chronology links! + + We also added this big new view you might've noticed on some group info pages - it's the *"albums, by series"* list, which collects all the albums in a group into manually curated sequences. There are a bunch of examples for these, including in existing groups - for solo artists like [[group:kalibration]] and [[group:toby-fox]], for team discographies like [[group:canmt]] and [[group:oceanfalls]], and for the [[group:official|Official Discography]], too! Series also show up on album pages, so right from the sidebar or nav bar, you can conveniently browse a whole series (or jump between series - or between groups!). + + Plus there are about a million smaller spots of polish and improvement. Previous and next links in the nav bar are more stably positioned, just dimming out if there is none further, and are spaced apart by dots instead of commas - easier to click for sure! Commentary (and news entries and such) now make links to external websites, with those dandy little arrowheads, "absorb" most punctuation that comes right after - so the end of a sentence doesn't get awkwardly pushed aside. + + We've got short descriptions for some track sections (like on [[album:homestuck-vol-1-4]]); prettier commentary entry headings; custom-presented "featuring" credits; additional names for albums; "closely linked artists" on group pages, and vice versa; and a dandy little "Album cover for..." message on tracks without their own artworks. + + Oh, and artwork references. Those [[track:sburban-jungle|are]] [[album-referencing-artworks:beyond-canon|pretty]] [[album-referenced-artworks:doctor|flipping]] [[track-referencing-artworks:moonsetter|cool]], too. (Thanks to Makin for all the initial data here, comprehensively covering everything from [[group:canmt|the CaNMT]]!!) +--- Name: Snow Pollen Appreciation Station Directory: snow-pollen-appreciation-station Date: June 12, 2024 diff --git a/static-page/changelog.yaml b/static-page/changelog.yaml index c1402d09..ada86c66 100644 --- a/static-page/changelog.yaml +++ b/static-page/changelog.yaml @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Style: |- margin-bottom: 0.5em; } Content: |- - <h2 id="1-jan-2099" class="major-release"><html:a href="#1-jan-2099">[[date:1 January 2099]] - Anachronist's Library</a></h2> + <h2 id="28-jan-2025" class="major-release"><html:a href="#28-jan-2025">[[date:28 January 2025]] - Anachronist's Library</a></h2> <h3>site changes</h3> - obliterated chronology links in the nav bar (<html:a href="#15-apr-20">rest</a> <html:a href="#12-jun-20">in</a> <html:a href="#12-jun-2024">peace</a>) and added them into artist tooltips, instead; these show the previous and next things' names (and a description if hovered for longer); they're more dynamic and may be shown for all kinds of credits, not just for track artists/contributors and cover/track art illustrators - new group series feature, so albums can now belong to specialized "series" within their groups (for example, "Numbered volumes" under [[group:official]]; "Land of Fans and Music" under [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans]]; "Pokémon Unbound" under [[group:the-paradox-music-team]]) - these are shown on group info pages, in full; on album pages, with dedicated previous/next buttons; and on track pages, briefly @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ Content: |- - added [[album:improvised-touhou-music-with-annoying-commentary]] by [[group:toby-fox]]! (thanks, Lilith!) - added [[album:pills-ep]] by [[artist:alex-votl]]! (thanks, Lilith!) - added [[album:in-isolation]] by [[artist:david-ellis]]! (thanks, Lilith!) + - added [[album:pray]] by [[artist:itoki-hana]] by [[artist:itoki-hana]]! (thanks, ruby, Lan!) - added [[album:uufo]] by [[artist:camellia]]! (thanks, ruby, Lan!) - added [[album:extermination-shock]] by [[group:what-is-lost-in-the-mines]]! (thanks, Jebb!) - added [[album:dead-maams-chest]] and [[album:ahoy-youre-all-pirates]] by [[artist:houshou-marine]]! (thanks, ruby!) |