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diff --git a/news.yaml b/news.yaml index 8afbcd0d..342c9f25 100644 --- a/news.yaml +++ b/news.yaml @@ -1,3 +1,75 @@ +Name: Anachronist's Library +Directory: anachronists-library +Date: January 30, 2025 +Content: |- + <img link="/news/anachronists-library/" src="media/misc/news/anachronists-library.gif" alt="Homestuck panel of a young godtier John astonished with the letter he just received." width="500" height="345" align="center"> + + <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]]! + + <hr> + + 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 [[album-referencing-artworks:midnight-crew-drawing-dead|are]] [[album-referenced-artworks:beyond-canon|pretty]] [[track-referencing-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]]!!) + + <hr> + + This update is late - we were targeting new years day, 1/1/2025 - for a handful of reasons. The plainest one is that we (QN) got a job, again, working IRL for the first time since after [[news-entry:ball-drop-23|Ball Drop '23]]. Of course, [[news-entry:wiki-finalization|last time]], we went on a wiki hiatus pretty much as soon as we left to work. This time around, not so! We've been at our job since August, active on the update this whole time - alongside all the awesome wiki-contributing community, of course. + + We also ran clean out of storage room. Actually, preview updates for this update harshly contested space on the server graciously sysadmin'd by [nata](https://equa.space), which [[news-entry:hsmusicwiki|since 2021]] we shared with [our own personal site](https://nebula.ed1.club) and a handful of other internet places. Throughout January we worked out precise plans to get the wiki moved to its own dedicated server... and pulled them off! + + The wiki is now hosted via Digitalocean Spaces, with a pretty bog-simple nginx frontend (via Digitalocaen Droplets) managing URLs the way we need. You shouldn't notice much of anything different - except that all our media files are now under [media.hsmusic.wiki](https://media.hsmusic.wiki), and the preview site is now [preview.hsmusic.wiki](https://preview.hsmusic.wiki)... but for us, it means we get 250 GiB of space! The wiki takes around 15 GiB right now, so we should be tidy for a nice long time. And total expenses are comparable, so it's just as sustainable on that end (only we manage our own billing now!!). + + Also there is a proper [404 page](https://hsmusic.wiki/whoopsey/) now. Oo shiny! + + <hr> + + Just for fun, even though we didn't exactly meet the [[news-entry:ball-drop-23#update-stat-summary|milestone]], here are comparable stat updates for everything new in the last two years: + + - Tracks: 3405 → 10,457 (+207%) + - Albums: 150 → 508 (+239%) + - Duration: 166 hours → 495 hours (+198%) + - Artists: 1615 → 3535 (+119%) + - Art tags: 265 → 551 (+108%) + + (We don't have an exact stat for commentary entries handy, but [in June 2023](https://web.archive.org/web/20230601094522/https://hsmusic.wiki/commentary/) around [[news-entry:happy-birthday-nannasprite]], there were 230k words across [roughly](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/692bd586495e5fcb6d7c5eae2af6a8c34b380b50) 2000 entries. There are [[commentary-index:-|now]] 417k words across 5,449 entries.) + + The wiki's approximately tripled in scope in those two years. We don't have anything as sappy to say about it as [[news-entry:crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent|another recent time]], but... well, we still love getting to be a part of this. And to share in that with everybody around the wiki - the contributors and friends we chat with every day, and the invisibile, anonymous visitors, all the people who silently get use out of and care about the wiki, alike! There's a lot that's still very exciting here ahead of us, and we're delighted to get to keep continuing at it. + + As ever, we want to give endless thanks to everybody who contributed to this update. (There are tons of data fixes, presentation improvements, and more particular additions that we didn't mention in this news entry. You can explore it all, like always, [[static:changelog#in the changelog]].) And thanks to everyone for all your support and feedback! It eternally means the world!! + + <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> +--- Name: Snow Pollen Appreciation Station Directory: snow-pollen-appreciation-station Date: June 12, 2024 @@ -32,7 +104,7 @@ Content: |- - Find stuff with contributions from a particular artist, belonging to a specific album or group! Did you know [[artist:rainy]] wrote a solo album for [[group:the-paradox-music-team]]? Find it with "rainy paradox album"! Or try "toby official album", or "ferkol fandom", or "clark vol 5". - - Find combinations with art tags! "john rabbit", "dirk dave official", "ruined earth fandom", "jack noir wv". Or just look for all the tags from one media - "ooceanfalls tag", "desynced tag" - and explore from there! + - Find combinations with art tags! "john rabbit", "dirk dave official", "ruined earth fandom", "jack noir wv". Or just look for all the tags from one media - "oceanfalls tag", "desynced tag" - and explore from there! More features?? Yes! Well, just one, but it's a fun one: y'know these "chronology link" doohickers that've stuck around in the nav bar for [[static:changelog#15-apr-20|more or less]] as long as the wiki's been around? @@ -435,7 +507,7 @@ Content: |- <b>Virtually all site internals met a massive overhaul,</b> which most notably helped us automatically catch a ton of teeny typos throughout all areas of wiki data, but also brought a major cleanup to the data format and made adding and updating features a whole lot friendlier for anyone spinning off or contributing to the wiki code! <b>Tons of other data fixes and minor additions</b> from many different people and community members - I summed up most individuals' contributions in the [[news-entry:a-preview-draws-near|previous news entry]], and you can find many more details in [[static:changelog#1-jan-2023|the changelog]]. Thanks so much to everyone who brought this update to fruition! <hr> - By the way, here are the stats summarizing just how much data is newly part of the wiki: + <span id="update-stat-summary">By the way,</span> here are the stats summarizing just how much data is newly part of the wiki: - Tracks: 2186 → 3405 (~56% increase) - Albums: 110 → 150 (~36% increase) - Duration: 109 hours → 166 hours (~53% increase) |