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diff --git a/news.yaml b/news.yaml index 5392dff5..d35a842b 100644 --- a/news.yaml +++ b/news.yaml @@ -1,3 +1,153 @@ +Name: The Apple Wizard of Mount Fuji +Directory: the-apple-wizard-of-mount-fuji +Date: April 13, 2025 +Content: |- + Hey-hey, did you hear? It's that time again... + + <hr class="split"> + + ...another year around the sun, and here you and we are both! Happy 4/13! + + If we ran late [[news-entry:anachronists-library|previously]], we've run *fast* this time. We managed to completely overlook the approach of this particular, completely predictable calendar holiday. But Makin kicked things off passing us the data files for one particular upcoming album to review in advance, if we so liked (we mostly declined), and we've been... well, scrambling since, LOL. + + But that scramble turned out worthwhile, we think. Part because we learned a lot on the way, for sure. Part because we got lucky; part because everyone had their own work ready, kindly waiting for us to review all that they offered at our own pace. (We'd been on break for a few weeks prior, see.) + + And part because this update is packed. + + The big new album is the brand-new UMSPAF release [[album:fondly-regard-illustration]], a themed concept album where the artworks were drawn first, then tracks were composed from outset to suit the art. It's a fantastic work, of course, and it's come together over a full year and a half, so don't let yourself miss it! (We hear CaNMT might have had [[album:jpeg|a familiar idea]] some almost-a-decade past, if you're on the search for more.) Huge thanks go to Makin for getting this album addition ready right for the album's own release. + + Also right from today is the sampler-selection of [[group:sunday-night-strifin|Sunday Night Strifin's]] next big mod update, [[album:sns-act-3-sampler]]. Jebb's behind the scenes on SNS and had this album right and ready for today, too! + + Meanwhile ruby added all the latest from UNBEATABLE, [[group:rj-lake|rj-lake's]] current (with [[artist:peak-divide]] plus other familiar faces) anime-rock project and entire hand-drawn video game; Makin brought the 2013 Problem Sleuth tribute soundtrack [[album:sepulchritude]]; Lilith, [[album:homestuck-technolich|the 2012-2013 compilation]] of technolich's Homestuck covers; and Jebb added another variety of recent and not-so-recent releases, including two game soundtracks from [[group:clark-powell]] and two chiptune albums from [[artist:curt-blakeslee]], and plenty besides. All album additions, as ever, are for your perusal [[static:changelog#13-apr-2025|in the changelog]]. + + But it's a big changelog, because we got like four and one third new features all (somehow) ready for today, too. There are loads of screenshots... [[static:changelog#13-apr-2025|IN THE CHANGELOG]]... and we're so toast we can't go over it all again here, lol, please give [[static:changelog#13-apr-2025|the changelog]] a visit. <3 + + Ditto we can only say in as many words that we're endlessly grateful, as ever, for all the support, kind words, and awe-inspiring contributions of everyone who's come to visit the music wiki, to make it a place we all make together. Thank you so much. + + Happy 4/13, and ever our best wishes! + + <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> +--- +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 +Content: |- + Hey hey, happy 6/12! For this update we've got a whole bunch of albums and additions to share, and several new features too - yes, including a search bar! Details, as ever, past the split! + + <hr class="split"> + + We added a search bar! Please stop applausing, there really isn't that much to say about it LOL. Let's give all the new albums a look, first! + + - We've added almost all the [[group:the-paradox-music-team|Paradox Music Team]] albums released from 2019 through 2020! This includes their latest numbered release [[album:stlap3]], from 4/13/2020, of course, plus team albums [[album:stlap2]] and [[album:beforusbound]], and three solo releases set about particular Homestuck characters: [[album:the-strider-mixtape]] by [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos]], [[album:the-nobles]] by [[artist:rowyn-berlan]], and [[album:on-the-rox]] by [[artist:rainy]]. Most of these albums come with thorough commentary and they all have incredible art, so there's a ton to explore here! Thanks to Lilith and Jebb for all their work on these, and Pascal and the rest of the PMT for their help! + + - Likewise, we've added the main discography of [[group:redditstuck]]! These albums include most of the music from the Redditstuck fanventure ([[flash-act:redditstuck|whose flashes]] you can also explore!) and are all scored; the latest, [[album:redditstuck-vol-3]], is also fully comentated. Thanks to FF for initial work here and the Redditstuck team for lots of help! + + - We've added two brand new releases, [[album:noirscape]] by [[artist:witchs-cadence]] and [[album:the-homestuck-strife-project-vol-1]] by [[artist:pascal-van-den-bos]]... + + - ...and the music of two rather early fangames, [[album:hammerkind-ost]] and [[album:sburbmon-ost]]... + + - ...and in-between many works, fandom and beyond, including [[album:alternian-misadventures-volume-1|both volumes]] of [[album:alternian-misadventures-volume-2|Alternian Misadventures]], [[group:circlejourney]]'s [[album:love-letters]], [[artist:falkkone]]'s [[album:intense-symphonic-metal-covers-vol-16|sixteenth symphonic metal cover album]], [[artist:gordian]]'s [[album:bowmania-gordian|BowmaniASMR piano suite]], a bunch of remixes by [[artist:richaadeb]], [[artist:ducky-senpai|Ducky Senpai's]] [[album:the-planets]] and [[album:ad-astra]], the one and only [[album:james-roach-collection]], and various new collaborative works from [[group:toby-fox]]! + + The full list of additions, as ever, is [[static:changelog#12-jun-2024|in the changelog]], and you can find proper credits there too. So many people helped out with this update - we're grateful to each and everyone! + + We've added a search bar to any page with a sidebar! It does the searchy thing. The music wiki is all a static website of course, so all the code works in your browser - it'll take a few seconds or so to download the search data into your browser (about two megabytes), but then all searches are basically instantaneous. + + We're using a JavaScript library for searching called [FlexSearch](https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch) which is, well, quite flexible ✨ (And thanks to Gio for lots of help getting us started with it!!) But it also means almost all of the actual search guts is coded by us and by hand, not handled by someone else's battle-hardened super-professional code work. That's great for the way we work on the music wiki, but it also means we're learning as we go, so please bear with us as the very first iteration is pretty basic LOL. There's an ocean of room for improvement! + + Here's some of the stuff you can do with search right now: + + - Find things by their name! Most of searching right now requires you to enter one or more words to do with the name of the thing you're lookin' for. These expect each word to match exactly (we don't do "stemming" yet). Otherwise stuff should work as you expect: "vol 10" or "beforus" or "one year older" or "toby" or "john". (This wiki has a lot of Johns.) + + - Filter for only tracks or albums or artists or so-on! Just write the ordinary word "track" or album" or "artist", and it'll only include those kinds of results. + + - 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 - "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? + + <img src="media/misc/news/chronology-links-what.png" width="421" height="118" align="center"> + + Well, now you can click that "across this wiki" text to limit chronology to just the other tracks in the current album! This is pretty great if you're following along as you listen to an album in order, and it's fun for exploring in general. + + Apart from that we've made a bunch of smaller improvements and tweaks across the site - these are [[static:changelog#2024-jun-12|all in the changelog]], of course. And the scale and depth of internal work - as support for the new search bar, improvements behind data processing shenanigans, and groundworks of things to come in the future - is kind of impossible to summarize. Suffice to say, it's been a busy couple months, and neat new things are always in the works! 🦥 + + Thanks so much to everyone for all your help and support, feedback and energy, care and time!! All the best wishes, through everything ahead for you. 🎻 + + <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> +--- Name: Let's Make This a Thing Directory: lets-make-this-a-thing Date: April 13, 2024 @@ -12,11 +162,11 @@ Content: |- - All the latest from [[group:deconrecon|Deconreconstruction]] are here too, added by koba: [[album:vast-error-vol-5-side-1]], [[album:vast-error-vol-5-side-2]], [[album:perils-of-probability]], [[album:magnum-opus]], and [[album:fighting-further]]! - - The first two albums from [[group:the-paradox-music-team|The Paradox Music Team]] are brought by Lilith: [[album:stable-time-loops-and-paradoxes]] and [[album:alternate-hues-and-melodies]]! Also from Lilith: [[album:induction]] by [[artist:svix]], [[album:from-beta-to-alpha]] by [[artist:christian-michael-poynter]], and [[album:synthetica]] featuring [[artist:soluslunes]]. + - The first two albums from [[group:the-paradox-music-team|The Paradox Music Team]] are brought by Lilith: [[album:stlap]] and [[album:alternate-hues-and-melodies]]! Also from Lilith: [[album:induction]] by [[artist:svix]], [[album:from-beta-to-alpha]] by [[artist:christian-michael-poynter]], and [[album:synthetica]] featuring [[artist:soluslunes]]. - The entire discography by [[group:circlejourney]] is brought to the wiki by Jebb... and Circlejourney! Discographies Jebb's added also include [[group:devieus]]' solo suite of Homestuck land EPs, a set of sung-story singles by [[group:horizon]], many early releases by music team member [[group:solatrus]], over a dozen death/black metal releases from [[group:xszelor]] - and dozens more releases from artists old and new alike, making an even 100 brought by Jebb over the last six months! - - The soundtracks for [[album:super-smash-bros-ultimate|Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]], [[album:pokemon-sword-shield-super-music-collection|Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield]], and [[album:pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection|Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet]] are all added by Morris! What do these have in common? Why, guest appearances by [[group:toby-fox]], of course! These come with comprehensive leitmotif information as well. Thanks to leo/vriska for reviewing the Pokémon additions. + - The soundtracks for [[album:super-smash-bros-ultimate|Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]], [[album:pokemon-sword-shield-super-music-collection|Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield]], and [[album:pokemon-scarlet-violet-super-music-collection|Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet]] are all added by ruby! What do these have in common? Why, guest appearances by [[group:toby-fox]], of course! These come with comprehensive leitmotif information as well. Thanks to leo/vriska for reviewing the Pokémon additions. - From James Roach, the new event single [[album:funkstuck-24]] joins 2023's [[album:requiem-for-a-homestuck]]! [[album:pesterquest-soundtrack]] and [[album:namco-high-official-soundtrack]], previously sections under [[album:unreleased-tracks]], both graduate to proper albums on the wiki. And the original 2016 version of Bowman's [[album:archive]], with a separate track ordering, alternate album assets, and much commentary collected from Bandcamp and SoundCloud is here, too! @@ -86,9 +236,9 @@ Content: |- - Added by penultimateApogee, the <em>whole entire</em> personal Bandcamp discography by [[group-gallery:jamie-paige]]! You might know her from hit LOFAM4 tracks [[track:pseudumbra-phauxtasm]] or [[track:crystalendofgames]], percussion in [[track:solar-voyage]] and [[track:renewed-return]], or her vaporwave solo extravaganza [[album:vaporwave-2016|『H☯MESTUCK VAP☯RWAVE 2016 RUH-RUH-RUH-ＲＥＭＩＸ』]]. She's done a ton of breakbeat-synth-gay pieces in recent years, all of which are gathered here, with full lyrics to boot! - - Added by Grace (😎 It's Grace Time), [[artist:robert-j-lake|Robert J! Lake's]] heckin' stuffed collection of personal Homestuck tracks, [[album:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1]]! You'll probably want to check [[album-commentary:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1|its commentary]] for all the details. This album comprises 413 tracks and is over eleven hours long, which is still somehow only 7% of all the fandom music on the wiki. It's a biggun. + - Added by Grace (😎 It's Grace Time), [[artist:rj-lake|Robert J! Lake's]] heckin' stuffed collection of personal Homestuck tracks, [[album:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1]]! You'll probably want to check [[album-commentary:stuckhome-syndrome-part-one-v1|its commentary]] for all the details. This album comprises 413 tracks and is over eleven hours long, which is still somehow only 7% of all the fandom music on the wiki. It's a biggun. - - Added by Jebb, a great variety of releases from [[group-gallery:toby-fox]] - most notably [[album:earthbound-halloween-hack]] (indeed, the birthplace of [[track:megalovania-halloween]]) but also more game soundtracks like [[album:escaped-chasm]] and [[album:rose-of-winter]], as well as singles such as [[album:skies-forever-blue]] - and the exciting playable tracks that come from Friday Night Funkin' meeting Homestuck: [[album:sunday-night-strifin-act-1-plus-2-ost]], [[album:sburb-funkin-edition-ost]], and [[album:rappets-davekat-collection]]! + - Added by Jebb, a great variety of releases from [[group-gallery:toby-fox]] - most notably [[album:earthbound-halloween-hack]] (indeed, the birthplace of [[track:megalovania-ebhh]]) but also more game soundtracks like [[album:escaped-chasm]] and [[album:rose-of-winter]], as well as singles such as [[album:skies-forever-blue]] - and the exciting playable tracks that come from Friday Night Funkin' meeting Homestuck: [[album:sunday-night-strifin-act-1-plus-2-ost]], [[album:sburb-funkin-edition-ost]], and [[album:rappets-davekat-collection]]! - Also from Makin, with extra help from Jebb, we've got like [[flash-index:-|a million new flashes]] on the site!? You pretty much have to see it to get it, but this includes a bunch of fanventures, fan animations and other fan works - and there's more to come here in the future, that's for sure! These are fully referenced back to and from the music tracks that they each feature, so they do quite a bit to bring both official and fandom tracks alike into more detailed context. There's tons to explore here! @@ -387,7 +537,7 @@ 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) @@ -471,16 +621,25 @@ Content: |- (This is a repost of a post we published earlier this month on Patreon, with a couple added notes.) <hr class="split"> > Hey all, + > > Just a short update here! I haven't had much time or energy to work on the music wiki within the last few weeks (up to a couple months or so), and I don't want to take folk's dollars for a project which is little more than dormant. So, I'm shutting this Patreon page down; I'll unlaunch the page next month, and have billing paused meanwhile (so that everyone has a chance to catch this notice and find out what's up). + > > I'm undecided on the immediate future of the wiki, but it's still a project really truly dear to me, and the community around it probably even moreso. The community Discord server will stick around, most certainly—even if development were to come to a halt, I think it's fairly obvious to anyone in the space that shutting it down would be snuffing something good for no reason at all. + > > I also don't yet have concrete plans to altogether abandon wiki development or maintenance. However, as I mentioned, my own time and energy for the project have been lacking; I've felt a building sense of moving on towards other projects and experiences, parallel with having recently finished school and now beginning work. As long as there's <i>something</i> new to share, which there so far has always been, I think I'll continue the monthly updates; detailed news entries and expansive and focused updates alike are all likely a part of the past now, though. + > > I want to give deeply gracious thanks to everyone for all the support over the last year and a half (and then some), whether you've been a patron or offered suggestions, feedback, data fixes and additions, translation work, server assistance, and even simply—<i>especially</i>—kind comments and messages. You all really mean the world to me! + > > I know this entry is a little somber, but it's something I've been working up to for a while. I figure it's best to share an official update on where the wiki's at, rather than leave everyone guessing in the dark (and probably seeing most of this coming all the same). + > > 1. This Patreon is shutting down (billing paused this month, page to be unlaunched some time in July). > 2. Releases will probably remain monthly but aren't likely to carry more than a trace or two new features (with comparatively briefer news entries to match). > 3. I'm not going to shut down the Discord, of course! I don't want to just snuff the community here for no reason. + > > Thank you for the read, and for everything, across all this time. + > > ~QN + > > <3 <hr> The above post was originally dated July 1st, 2021, at 12:03 AM (Atlantic time). Since then, we've made the decision to declare the wiki essentially finalized in its current state, as we move on and spend more time just living life, with less internet presence and self-imposed obligations. (This means the parts in the original post about further releases are for the most part moot.) @@ -567,7 +726,7 @@ Content: |- So, building on the addition of solo musician groups in [[news-entry:retrace-retexture]], we've a lovely set of independent albums and tracks to share from four artists this time. You might recognize a few of their names! From [[group:cristata]], the artist behind [[album:perfectly-generic-album]] as well as the [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans|UMSPAF]] track [[track:party-god]], we have the all-new experimental dance album, [[album:are-you-lost]]. It's released under the alias hywell, and features remixes primarily of tracks from Undertale and Deltarune, though there's a trace or two of Homestuck to be found as well, if you're attentive! (If a meeting between Homestuck and Undertale strikes your interest, you'd be well off to visit the artist's own crossover fancomic, [DELTASTUCK](https://mspfa.com/?s=33534&p=1)!) - From [[group:tempest2k]], the co-author for INHOSPITABLE and artist of [[album:inhospitable-delisted]], we've brought over all their earlier Bandcamp releases! [[album:chilled-processor]] and [[album:ava]] are clearly heartfelt letters to the styles of early video game music; [[album:old-world]] and [[album:losing-heart]] are a lovely pair of more recent singles; and [[album:nuclears-explosion-1]] is a compilation of much of their earlier work. There's a whole host of neat tracks to explore here! + From [[group:tempest2k]], the co-author for INHOSPITABLE and artist of [[album:inhospitable-delisted]], we've brought over all their earlier Bandcamp releases! [[album:chilled-processor]] and [[album:ava-original-soundtrack]] are clearly heartfelt letters to the styles of early video game music; [[album:old-world]] and [[album:losing-heart]] are a lovely pair of more recent singles; and [[album:nuclears-explosion-1]] is a compilation of much of their earlier work. There's a whole host of neat tracks to explore here! From [[group:what-is-lost-in-the-mines]], artist of [[artist:whatislostinthemines|a whole host]] of tracks in the Homestuck (and surrounding) fandom, we have their own three solo albums [[album:what]], [[album:triassic-slump]], and [[album:bashful-hearts-out]] to share! These are all really impressively produced and textural works, with powerful vocals all throughout the latter two releases to boot. (If you love the dark vocals and occasionally noisy electro rock of [[album:bashful-hearts-out]], we certainly have to point you towards [[album:exceptis-excipiendis]] by [[artist:kal-la-kal-la]], another fantastic 2020 solo release we find a lot of thematic overlaps can be felt in!) And from [[group:funk-mclovin]], an artist and [video essayist](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyu12_DBaAkDfFq-UQuHNw) certainly prominent in the current fan community, we've brought three wonderfully eccentric releases! [[album:the-funk-mclovin-homestuck-experience]] is the original, a compilation of fanpieces from their [2020 Song-A-Day](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOVvrdnGToXUGOejNbpy8a3B6Tixkv-kg) challenge; there's also [[album:class-act]], a diverse set of original works, as well as its [[album:class-act-b-side|B-Side]], an album all full of covers; and of course, [[album:the-baby-is-june]], which is exactly what it says on the tin, and is perfect. (Like its namesake, this one is a collaboration with other voice-actor/vocalist friends!) @@ -689,8 +848,8 @@ Content: |- - (2020) [[album:theres-no-place-like-home]], a prog rock medley album celebrating virtually the entire official discography of Homestuck music! (Be sure to [check out the movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU)!) - From [[artist:toby-fox]]: - (2010) [[album:the-baby-is-you]], the infamous pinnacle of T. ("Radiation") F. content, a shitpost we mere mortals are blessed by the birth of - - (2015) [[album:undertale-soundtrack]], complete with interactive reference info just like the rest of HSMusic, courtesy of [the Undertale Wiki](https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Leitmotifs) - - (2018) [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost]], also with leitmotif information thanks to [the Deltarune Wiki](https://deltarune.fandom.com/wiki/Leitmotifs) + - (2015) [[album:undertale-soundtrack]], complete with interactive reference info just like the rest of HSMusic, courtesy of [the Undertale Wiki](https://undertale.wiki/w/Leitmotifs) + - (2018) [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost]], also with leitmotif information thanks to [the Deltarune Wiki](https://deltarune.wiki/w/Leitmotifs) - From [[artist:tempest2k]]: - (2021) [[album:inhospitable-delisted]], a re-release of the now-delisted INHOSPITABLE Vol. 1 from 2017, featuring music from the original release of their comic, INHOSPITABLE Phew! That's a lot of music. In fact, [[group-gallery:fandom|the Fandom gallery]] is starting to become <i>kind of crowded!</i> How is anyone supposed to find what they're looking for now?? (Or so we hypothetically project you asking.) |