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diff --git a/news.yaml b/news.yaml index 3c2bd4bb..d35a842b 100644 --- a/news.yaml +++ b/news.yaml @@ -1,3 +1,223 @@ +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 +Content: |- + Hi again, and happy 4/13! We've got a somewhat sizable update for Homestuck's 15th anniversary - we're incredibly excited to newly share some 140 releases spanning all of Homestuck's history and beyond! Plus, almost six months of new features and touch-ups. All the details and much more, as ever, past the split! 🏘️ + + <hr class="split"> + + It's honestly tough to tell where to start - this update brings well over 100 musical releases to the wiki, a veritable anthology of commentary additions and touch-ups, many new and exciting features, and months upon months of infrastructural improvements. A mere selection of the albums, first: + + - The latest albums from [[group:desynced|Desynced]], [[album:anthology-i]] and [[album:nibiru]], and from [[group:oceanfalls|Oceanfalls]], [[album:oceanfables-ethological]] and [[album:midworld-merriment]], all make their way to the wiki! Alongside these are much-improved artwork tags, courtesy of Witch's Cadence, leii, dizzims, and Jebb, and improved reference lists, courtesy of Witch's Cadence, leii, and Jebb. + + - 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: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 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! + + - And of course, a bunch of new releases from this 4/13, including the album [[album:project-s-ost-vol-1]] scoring [an animatic retelling the very beginning of Homestuck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmNFa4jE9o), and many singles and other releases: [[album:brobots]] (an FNF crossover), [[album:doctors-descent]] (Crypt of the Necrodancer), [[album:jade-tower]] (Pizza Tower), arrangements [[album:lordmaker]], [[album:the-twilight-reverie]], and [[album:dont-you-lecture-me-with-your-thirty-dollar-homestuck]], and medley [[album:homestuck-15th-anniversary-medley]]! + + Many more albums are new to this release, too. As ever, these are all listed [[static:changelog#13-apr-2024|in the changelog]]. We hope you'll love to explore and connect with what's new - it's an incredibly diverse selection spanning the full fifteen years of Homestuck's discography, and then some! + + We've added a completely new feature applicable to almost any track: additional names! This is a little box that shows when you click a track's name on its own info page, presenting a summary of other names or variations that the track has been known or called by in any official capacity. These show up everywhere and cover [[track:joker-strife|work-in-progress titles]], [[track:2unliight|platform-specific variations]], [[track:bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on|de-quirked names]], [[track:iiywaswiwtbotsa4aatwuotdtmihcimfh|in-game credits]], [[track:blue-atom|pre-compilation names]], and more! Thanks to Niklink, Rosetta Leijonde, Jebb, Lilith, and others all for sharing entries and offering feedback - you can explore everyone's additions [[static:changelog#additional-names-intro|in the changelog]] and across much of the wiki. + + Commentary is broadly revamped in this update! Much thanks to Lilith, we've located tons of commentary source links (both live on the web and preserved on the Wayback Machine). We've added all of these directly to the commentary entries, so that you can easily locate the original source and presentation. We've redesigned the visual appearance of commentary entries to accommodate source links and make for better reading, and we've reviewed most of the official discography as well as the earlier LOFAMs and touched content up with modern formatting and links. + + We've made tons of visual and feature updates to the wiki, some obvious and some much more subtle. It's impossible to summarize everything concisely, but more stand-outs besides the above include: + + - Hover or touch tooltips for artist names on track pages! These replace the row of always-visible icons, and show the artists' links on music platforms, social media, and personal websites. They usually include the artists' handles, and we hope they're easy, fun, and exciting to explore. + + - Totally redesigned cover and track artwork presentation! Tons of small changes bring a greater visual focus to the art itself; we want the artworks to not just fit in with the rest of the page, but feel like the visual centerpiece. We've also refined the look of artworks in gallery grids and elsewhere on the site, and completely reworked the appearance of artworks with content warnings. + + - New and better-nuanced processing for links to other websites (like social media or music platforms) — besides making the existing system here way more expandable, we now support many new platforms and are smarter with how external links are presented. Also, links in commentary (and other content text) now pop open in a new tab (and indicate as much), so you can easily get back to reading where you left off. + + - A whole host of visual touch-ups, mostly to do with shadows and depth, including: better shadows and effects in pages' heading bars; shadow and glow for pages' main artworks; color toning in the overlay when viewing an artwork in full; and improvements to responsiveness, making the wiki look nicer in any page dimensions, and generally bringing better stability and reducing rough edges. + + With this update, we've really hoped that all our redesigns work together to reflect and reprise things the wiki has held important from the very beginning. HSMusic began in large part *because* the official Bandcamp removed almost all track artworks in 2019. Fans and illustrators alike were disheartened and discouraged. + + Though most official artworks were preserved in [fanmade archives](https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/dn2s69/i_was_prepared_for_this_eventuality_and_also/), we wanted the art and the albums, all preserved and in their original form, to have a *home.* We wanted the music to be celebrated and explored, and for fans to visit what musicians and artists had done beyond Homestuck, too. We wanted commentary - from booklets and otherwise - to be front and center, because the community and stories behind Homestuck's discography are so much of what makes it special. We wanted visitors to see that Homestuck music is alive and beautiful, not a mostly-forgotten fragment of the past, and that the fandom is huge and diverse and incredible. + + Those wishes all guided the creation and the early identity of the music wiki. And, hopefully, we've brought the same ideas, refined and ever-better realized, into everything new for you to explore and discover in this update! + + <hr> + + <i>Technical jargon again! Skip this section... if you must... and you dare!</i> + + Internal and infrastructural changes make up a great bulk of the code work over this update: in JavaScript files excluding the content generation area of the codebase, over 4000 lines were removed and 11000 lines were added. In total, [90 pull requests](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pulls?q=merged%3A2023-10-25..2024-04-13) were described in detail and frequently brought new features, alongside internal improvements for nearly all systems. + + Since [[news-entry:iridescent-noon]] we've implemented and applied a framework for "compositional" operations across almost all kinds of data on the wiki. This essentially boils down to writing data processing — like "which tracks has this artist contributed to?" or "what is the color of this track?" or "what's the appropriate list terminology for this flash act?" or "what are all the details of this album's track sections?" — in terms of smaller building blocks. Compositions follow a pipeline structure, and come with a variety of syntax conveniences, to ensure it's easy to write the same style of data processing code everywhere. Where content functions make writing new user-interface features a breeze, compositions do the same for data processing, with very similar benefits: individual components can be unit-tested, are easier to debug, can be reused and recontextualized, can be expanded and simplified, can be broken up and newly combined, and generally make solving bigger data problems much more approachable. + + We've revisited and refactored the ways major internal systems interact. Most notably, we've brought all YAML processing specifications into [a newly tidied format](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pull/386) defined in the same files as high-level data processing; the "guts" of the loading process still operate in a separate module, but that module is no longer also responsible for defining what each *kind of thing* looks like in YAML. We've reworked the way we define [how references between kinds of data work](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pull/394); these are also consolidated with the rest of a thing's definition, and thanks to the new approach, clear out an awkward spot of code duplication. + + We've broken various ground in the HTML templating system which all content and UI on the website is written with. We've dramatically improved the interface for working with HTML attributes, which makes both [incrementally built-up components](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/ad349c3a6949d8e6751ada62f297038336b1bcc6/src/content/dependencies/image.js) and [hierarchies](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/ad349c3a6949d8e6751ada62f297038336b1bcc6/src/content/dependencies/generateTooltip.js#L21-L29) with [conditional attributes](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/ad349c3a6949d8e6751ada62f297038336b1bcc6/src/content/dependencies/generateFlashActSidebarSideMapBox.js#L54-L82) much cleaner and easier to write. We've written special tags that slot into existing hierarchies and, [almost like magic](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pull/441), finally enable cleaner word wrapping. We've [reworked language processing](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pull/348) to enable these, so that content doesn't get flattened into an HTML string until the page is actually rendered, which is much-needed groundworks for a [host](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/issues/358) of [future](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/issues/434) [capabilities](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/issues/380) besides. + + We've [implemented](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/pull/218) and [carefully improved](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/issues?q=merged%3A2023-10-25..2024-04-13+label%3A%22page+part%3A+tooltips%22+) a tooltip system almost completely from scratch, posing and exploring a wide variety of challenges and questions that have made the client-side JavaScript far more self-confident. Similarly, various new modules, implemented alongside carefully prepared HTML hierarchies and CSS rules, begin to beat a path for more interesting and exciting client dynamics in the future. + + <hr> + + As we gratefully expressed [[news-entry:crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent|last time]], everything about the wiki is in thanks not just to the entire Homestuck community and all the amazing works created within and around it, but also to everyone who has ever touched the wiki. Thank you to all who reported data errors, brought new additions, started and joined discussions of all wonderful sorts, suggested features and offered feedback, and said kind words about the wiki and all the incredible work everyone has done and continues to do here. + + During the six or so months this update was in progress, we got to work more directly than ever before with such an awesome group of people, and meet and speak with many more. It's been an incredible experience, and we wouldn't come close to capturing it if we had thousands *more* words to spare. Likewise, the additions and changes escape simple summary; you're much encouraged to explore what's new, as ever, [[static:changelog#13-apr-2024|in the changelog]]. + + Thanks endlessly to everyone for all the help and support, feedback and energy, care and time! We hope your 4/13 was awesome (working on this update sure was for us), and that you have a lovely time ahead! 🦚 + + <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> +--- Name: crystal hung in firmament's descent Directory: crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent Date: October 25, 2023 @@ -16,9 +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! @@ -58,7 +278,7 @@ Content: |- To date, it's been four years since Homestuck's official Bandcamp was rearranged to have a bunch of compilation releases, to the exclusion of so much beautiful, passionately illustrated track art, not to mention whole solo <em>and team</em> albums such as [[album:one-year-older]], [[album:genesis-frog]], [[album:the-wanderers]], [[album:squiddles]], and more. October 25th, 2019 marks the date that we realized there was no way it'd be right to let this stand, on its own. It's been almost four years since the wiki released. We had no idea how far it'd come, and - although we're a broken record! - there's no way it would've been possible without any and all of y'all. - October 25th, 2019 <em>also</em> marks the launch of <a href="https://www.homestuck2.com">Homestuck^2</a>, and as hopefully everyone who visits here is aware, that's just been revived with a whole new team of passionately creative artists, writers, and other talented individuals. I think when [[album:beyond-canon]] released, compiled almost comprehensively of fanmusician names we were altogether unfamiliar with - at the time! - it kind of marked a turning point for the future of Homestuck. In a lot of ways, [[album:lofam5a2]] feels like that all over again. All of these launches were unforgettable, each crystallized in just a moment, but whose reverberations and refractions have, ever since, shone through maybe everyone who's touched or been touched by Homestuck fanmusic. And every day is part of that! Not just the big launches, the big releases, the big updates. Every day is another something special to treasure, celebrate, and take with us forward. + October 25th, 2019 <em>also</em> marks the launch of [Homestuck^2](https://www.homestuck2.com), and as hopefully everyone who visits here is aware, that's just been revived with a whole new team of passionately creative artists, writers, and other talented individuals. I think when [[album:beyond-canon]] released, compiled almost comprehensively of fanmusician names we were altogether unfamiliar with - at the time! - it kind of marked a turning point for the future of Homestuck. In a lot of ways, [[album:lofam5a2]] feels like that all over again. All of these launches were unforgettable, each crystallized in just a moment, but whose reverberations and refractions have, ever since, shone through maybe everyone who's touched or been touched by Homestuck fanmusic. And every day is part of that! Not just the big launches, the big releases, the big updates. Every day is another something special to treasure, celebrate, and take with us forward. Hopefully, this wiki and community embody some of that spirit, and y'all, no matter if you've been around the site since the start, are visiting the site for the first time, or are reading old news entries just for the heck of it, can feel that like we do! @@ -126,7 +346,7 @@ Content: |- - The latest extravaganze from [[group-gallery:stuck-at-home-con]], [[album:gotta-hatch-em-all]]!! Friendly faces and familiar motifs abound in this annual release! - - Soundtrack to the ongoing fanventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=45123">Crossmound</a>, [[album:crossmound-vol-1]]! Thanks to Guffy, from their music team, for helping out with this one. + - Soundtrack to the ongoing fanventure [Crossmound](https://mspfa.com/?s=45123), [[album:crossmound-vol-1]]! Thanks to Guffy, from their music team, for helping out with this one. - From [[group-gallery:cristata|Cristata and hywell]] of [[album:are-you-lost]] renown and more, [[album:cyber-city-sound-pak]], a new DELTARUNE techno-breakcore remix album! @@ -161,7 +381,7 @@ Content: |- Each of those steps only does what it needs to, and the kind of work it does is separate from the rest. The part that generates HTML doesn't process live data objects. The part that queries input data doesn't tell the website engine what other components are going to be included in this component. The part that extracts "raw" data (like artist names or track durations) for direct display does so separately from the rest of the component. - All this makes it far easier to trace exactly where values are coming from, why information is organized the way it is, and gives a coherent structure for new components to follow. It helps keep arbitrary infrastructure from leaking into logic, pretty much boiling site components down into the essence of exactly what work they're intended to do. It's honestly all to a point where [[listing:all-sheet-music-files|multiple-layered components]] more or less <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/2badc89d1fd8f04c0f63d4a81a1386dfcbe6617b/src/content/dependencies/listAllAdditionalFilesTemplate.js">write</a> <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/2badc89d1fd8f04c0f63d4a81a1386dfcbe6617b/src/content/dependencies/generateListAllAdditionalFilesChunk.js">themselves</a>. Elements which were <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/4a1997b0edd7de4b124c17e3cdeb1a47ecea1095">previously</a> <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/64990187b7a35b3c1db8e169f83591b557bb9121/src/util/link.js">hard-coded</a> are <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/preview/src/content/dependencies/generateContentHeading.js">components</a> <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/preview/src/content/dependencies/linkThing.js">now</a>. Complex feature additions focus on <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/5625d4eed0e86fa0ac4a8bbc28cdac447d87c3d3">just the behavior</a>, and far less time goes to <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/e674b186ff755eaa8fb26f5885ac997e0ff0330e">adapting content to infrastructure</a> - instead of <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/1fe5de18a35a51b251c08995e619a5a526425236">the other way</a> <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/05df0a1199dca320e0c8b92d210e6ab6e9676dfb?diff=split">around</a>! + All this makes it far easier to trace exactly where values are coming from, why information is organized the way it is, and gives a coherent structure for new components to follow. It helps keep arbitrary infrastructure from leaking into logic, pretty much boiling site components down into the essence of exactly what work they're intended to do. It's honestly all to a point where [[listing:all-sheet-music-files|multiple-layered components]] more or less [write](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/2badc89d1fd8f04c0f63d4a81a1386dfcbe6617b/src/content/dependencies/listAllAdditionalFilesTemplate.js) [themselves](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/2badc89d1fd8f04c0f63d4a81a1386dfcbe6617b/src/content/dependencies/generateListAllAdditionalFilesChunk.js). Elements which were [previously](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/4a1997b0edd7de4b124c17e3cdeb1a47ecea1095) [hard-coded](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/64990187b7a35b3c1db8e169f83591b557bb9121/src/util/link.js) are [components](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/preview/src/content/dependencies/generateContentHeading.js) [now](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/blob/preview/src/content/dependencies/linkThing.js). Complex feature additions focus on [just the behavior](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/5625d4eed0e86fa0ac4a8bbc28cdac447d87c3d3), and far less time goes to [adapting content to infrastructure](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/e674b186ff755eaa8fb26f5885ac997e0ff0330e) - instead of [the other way](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/1fe5de18a35a51b251c08995e619a5a526425236) [around](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki/commit/05df0a1199dca320e0c8b92d210e6ab6e9676dfb?diff=split)! All that is a bunch of technical gobbledygook to say that the wiki's code is better, and it's a whole lot easier to add new features and make existing ones better. Making this happen has been pretty much our entire programming world for the last four months, and we're both relieved and so proud it's complete! @@ -193,7 +413,7 @@ Content: |- <hr class="split"> - Ten releases join the lineup! We've got just-today released albums [[album:vinculum-vitae]], [[album:dont-read-a-webcomic-called-homestuck]], and [[album:land-of-hue-and-duels-trollside]], and singles [[album:toxic-love]] and [[album:another-flare-413-aradia-goose-mix]]. Some earlier releases, as well: [[album:act-8-volume-1]], from the excellent (and titular) "what's next?"-type fanventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=14278&p=1">Act 8</a>; both albums part of another after-the-epilogue fanventure <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=16414&p=1">Act Omega</a>, [[album:early-access]] and [[album:aspect-clock]]; and two more releases from [[group:canmt|CaNMT]], [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck]] and solo album [[album:cyclica]] by [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon]]! + Ten releases join the lineup! We've got just-today released albums [[album:vinculum-vitae]], [[album:dont-read-a-webcomic-called-homestuck]], and [[album:land-of-hue-and-duels-trollside]], and singles [[album:toxic-love]] and [[album:another-flare-413-aradia-goose-mix]]. Some earlier releases, as well: [[album:act-8-volume-1]], from the excellent (and titular) "what's next?"-type fanventure [Act 8](https://mspfa.com/?s=14278&p=1); both albums part of another after-the-epilogue fanventure [Act Omega](https://mspfa.com/?s=16414&p=1), [[album:early-access]] and [[album:aspect-clock]]; and two more releases from [[group:canmt|CaNMT]], [[album:cool-and-new-homestuck]] and solo album [[album:cyclica]] by [[artist:ostrichlittledungeon]]! We've also collected commentary by Andrew Hussie on many albums on the [[artist:andrew-hussie#commentary|official discography]], plus composer comments across much of Michael Guy Bowman's [[artist:michael-guy-bowman#commentary|early official tracks]]. There's tons of early history and trivia on the Homestuck music scene about such albums as [[album:homestuck-vol-1]], [[album:homestuck-vol-5]], many individual tracks from Bowman, and, yes, [[album:squiddles]] too. If this fine meteor-free Thursday has you in the mood to look down memory lane, there's much to browse here! @@ -201,23 +421,23 @@ Content: |- There were a bunch of musical pieces released for 4/13, and since the wiki only covers album releases for now, we weren't able to include them all! Here are some individual releases you might still like to check out, in no particular order: - - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tDuLPNby-c">Heat and Clockwork</a> (4:36) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVD02AGZoC8">Frost and Frogs</a> (5:01) by AndromedaMvsic - - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC05fNfRk2Y">Sburban Legends</a> (1:59) by triageGremlin, for a fun Minecraft mod trailer, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncFbhWoI00">[S] Rana: Reminisce</a>! - - Fan cover of PhemieC's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UR6DT-Hrj4">Leviathan, The Girl</a> (3:27) by Grassuke - - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ap-Hzdd-g">Sburban Jungle</a> (6:40) but it's from Super Smash Bros now, by Radiati0nal - - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEaghBJsO-E">8uild mode</a> (4:29) by theartsychimken, a delightful mashup of [[track:do-you-remem8er-me]] and Beatrix from the Sims 4's soundtrack - - cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbMOX5P0Pw">Penumbra Phantasm</a> (4:13) by ElijahRulz, based on the version from [[track:mspar-remember]] - - lovely piano cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc2WUvvAyPU">Harlequin</a> (0:45) by oblongbirb - - cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JcyW4pKQoQ">You Can't Fight the Homestuck</a> (4:45) by Onioner Kun! - - remix of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPHKuQQE-o">Eridan's Theme</a> (2:51) by RandoHorn - - very warm <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWO9wWGmik">anniversary music box-style tune</a> (1:48) by Katalith - - cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul13hGJXcQo">Heir of Grief</a> (6:10) by Oxi - - delightful Calliope-feels <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-95kXMozE">broadway song</a> (4:50) by lil munchie - - cover of Octopimp's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHiTFkV7M0">Dave rap</a> (1:59) by GriimSoul - - a very nice <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKokn2moVM">lyricstuck</a> (1:31) by Kuuttitutti of waveform*'s <a href="https://waveformct.bandcamp.com/album/library">easy</a> - - Love You (Feferi's Theme) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY_BJfqx1-M">lyrically adapted</a> (1:59) to the conlang toki pona by Demented Duskull - - soundfont remix <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDr-UJVmmK8">Showtime KA1 Mix</a> (2:05) by June - - EDM / D&B remix of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBGCwfPbR0">Flare</a> (6:12) by Raid, with lots of composer commentary here! + - [Heat and Clockwork](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tDuLPNby-c) (4:36) and [Frost and Frogs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVD02AGZoC8) (5:01) by AndromedaMvsic + - [Sburban Legends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC05fNfRk2Y) (1:59) by triageGremlin, for a fun Minecraft mod trailer, [\[S] Rana: Reminisce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KncFbhWoI00)! + - Fan cover of PhemieC's [Leviathan, The Girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UR6DT-Hrj4) (3:27) by Grassuke + - [Sburban Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ap-Hzdd-g) (6:40) but it's from Super Smash Bros now, by Radiati0nal + - [8uild mode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEaghBJsO-E) (4:29) by theartsychimken, a delightful mashup of [[track:do-you-remem8er-me]] and Beatrix from the Sims 4's soundtrack + - cover of [Penumbra Phantasm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbMOX5P0Pw) (4:13) by ElijahRulz, based on the version from [[track:mspar-remember]] + - lovely piano cover of [Harlequin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc2WUvvAyPU) (0:45) by oblongbirb + - cover of [You Can't Fight the Homestuck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JcyW4pKQoQ) (4:45) by Onioner Kun! + - remix of [Eridan's Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPHKuQQE-o) (2:51) by RandoHorn + - very warm [anniversary music box-style tune](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWO9wWGmik) (1:48) by Katalith + - cover of [Heir of Grief](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul13hGJXcQo) (6:10) by Oxi + - delightful Calliope-feels [broadway song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-95kXMozE) (4:50) by lil munchie + - cover of Octopimp's [Dave rap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHiTFkV7M0) (1:59) by GriimSoul + - a very nice [lyricstuck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKokn2moVM) (1:31) by Kuuttitutti of waveform*'s [easy](https://waveformct.bandcamp.com/album/library) + - Love You (Feferi's Theme) [lyrically adapted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY_BJfqx1-M) (1:59) to the conlang toki pona by Demented Duskull + - soundfont remix [Showtime KA1 Mix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDr-UJVmmK8) (2:05) by June + - EDM / D&B remix of [Flare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBGCwfPbR0) (6:12) by Raid, with lots of composer commentary here! <hr> @@ -279,7 +499,7 @@ Content: |- All artwork files for the [[group:official|Official Discography]] as well as from [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans]] have been replaced with the closest-to-original resolution exports we could find! This brings a large chunk of the wiki up to par with the standard in newer additions, and ensures the highest quality copies of artist community contributions to Homestuck's official soundtrack remain readily accessible for years to come. - (Since the wiki went online, most artworks for the official discography were nabbed from a community archive. Those were pulled from Homestuck's official Bandcamp year over year, until all art was unceremoniously pulled, and were publicly preserved here. They were standard 1200x1200-ish, mildly compressed JPEG copies; since then, we found a technique to find the same cover artworks as they were uploaded to Bandcamp, free of web-optimization processing. All the gorish details <a href="https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/pull/76">are on GitHub</a>, for those curious!) + (Since the wiki went online, most artworks for the official discography were nabbed from a community archive. Those were pulled from Homestuck's official Bandcamp year over year, until all art was unceremoniously pulled, and were publicly preserved here. They were standard 1200x1200-ish, mildly compressed JPEG copies; since then, we found a technique to find the same cover artworks as they were uploaded to Bandcamp, free of web-optimization processing. All the gorish details [are on GitHub](https://github.com/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/pull/76), for those curious!) Plus, a few smaller additions: @@ -317,7 +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) @@ -356,7 +576,7 @@ Directory: a-preview-draws-near Date: April 13, 2022 Content: |- What's this!? An update to HSMusic.wiki after <em>hundreds of years?</em> One you can visit <em>right now!?</em> - <s><a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/preview-en/">Click here to check out an actively-updating preview of the work-in-progress coming update!</a> (More details in the news entry beyond this link!)</s> + <s>[Click here to check out an actively-updating preview of the work-in-progress coming update!](https://hsmusic.wiki/preview-en/) (More details in the news entry beyond this link!)</s> <strong>That's right, you're viewing it now!</strong> Details beyond the split! <hr class="split"> Hi there, and happy 4/13! @@ -375,7 +595,7 @@ Content: |- - deesoff (art tag feedback) - FF (specific artist data for tracks from video games and other franchises) - Gibus Wearing Brony (suggesting improvements to the "Lost in History" pseudo-artist and spotting data errors) - - Makin (art tag feedback and <a href="https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/issues/64">exciting revelations</a>) + - Makin (art tag feedback and [exciting revelations](https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/issues/64)) - megatti (art tag feedback) - nanaian (spotting a broken code repo link) - tempest2k (art tags for [[album:oceanfalls-vol-3]] which I didn't get around to adding til now!) @@ -387,9 +607,9 @@ Content: |- Since this update has involved a pretty major data rewrite, there are likely still bugs, so please feel free to <b>report any errors, feedback, or suggestions</b> through our old-and-new channels: - <b>#hsmusic-misc [[static:discord|Discord]] channel:</b> General place for wiki discussion! - <b>#issuefication-zone [[static:discord|Discord]] channel:</b> Simple little channel for quickly filing issues (mostly data fixes and what-not). - - <b>hsmusic-data <a href="https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/issues">issue tracker</a>:</b> Data errors and new additions, especially anything missing from current albums or areas on the wiki, but also completely new additions too! - - <b>hsmusic-wiki <a href="https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki">issue tracker</a>:</b> Bug reports and suggestions to improve existing features or add totally new ones to the actual wiki codebase! - If you aren't familiar with issue trackers or aren't interested in registering for an account on <a href="https://notabug.org/about">NotABug</a> (the main host for our issue trackers and code/data repositories), the Discord is always open and welcomes feedback and reports there, too - especially in our new dedicated #issuefication-zone channel! + - <b>hsmusic-data [issue tracker](https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-data/issues):</b> Data errors and new additions, especially anything missing from current albums or areas on the wiki, but also completely new additions too! + - <b>hsmusic-wiki [issue tracker](https://notabug.org/hsmusic/hsmusic-wiki):</b> Bug reports and suggestions to improve existing features or add totally new ones to the actual wiki codebase! + If you aren't familiar with issue trackers or aren't interested in registering for an account on [NotABug](https://notabug.org/about) (the main host for our issue trackers and code/data repositories), the Discord is always open and welcomes feedback and reports there, too - especially in our new dedicated #issuefication-zone channel! Thanks for checking out the update, and for all the feedback and support, as ever! <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> --- @@ -401,16 +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.) @@ -427,7 +656,7 @@ Content: |- <hr class="split"> <i>As ever, thank you to everyone who sent feedback and kind messages during development! We're also very grateful for all [[static:donate|supporters of the wiki]], including: enchantingHunter, <span style="color: #f1c40f">Gradis</span>, and Nights!</i> As mentioned in the summary, I've been following my own interests in wiki development, so a good deal of the work done this month was on further internal restructuring. For the most part, it's been a big refactor! The focus this month was to break up the giant file responsible for all site generation, <code>upd8.js</code>, into more easily navigable modules and utility files. Though work on that isn't quite complete yet, the progress shows: what was previously just short of 7000 lines of code within a single file has been cut down and sorted away to only 3000 now! - (If you're curious, page generation info and templates are all contained within the new <a href="https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-wiki/tree/src/page?h=staging&id=ffb9bfd2a8c33f25a19b3b74f1204a5fad575108">src/page</a> directory. The hope is that these modules will be a lot easier to write, maintain, and understand, even for anyone unfamiliar with the wiki codebase!) + (If you're curious, page generation info and templates are all contained within the new [src/page](https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-wiki/tree/src/page?h=staging&id=ffb9bfd2a8c33f25a19b3b74f1204a5fad575108) directory. The hope is that these modules will be a lot easier to write, maintain, and understand, even for anyone unfamiliar with the wiki codebase!) Of course, while revisiting each page and tweaking generation code all across the site, a few visitor-visible refinements have been worked in, too: - For group pages, we've made the sidebar sections collapsible, just like on album pages! Only the category you're presently perusing is expanded by default; this should make the list more focused, and welcome wandering at your own pace. - Also for groups, exclusive to the Info page, a new "from (other group)" accent has been added. For albums which show in more than a single group, this will show the other most primary: for example, on the [[group:fandom]] info page, each album shows where it was released, such as [[group:unofficial-mspa-fans]] next to [[album:ancestral]], and [[group:cristata]] next to [[album:perfectly-generic-album]]. @@ -469,7 +698,7 @@ Content: |- And last off, on album pages, where we'd previously have the sidebar show <em>every</em> track all at once, track groups are now collapsed by default - making it easier, we hope, to navigate between, visiting tracks from whichever section you're looking for. (Since the main content area shows a full track list anyway, it didn't make much sense to just repeat that same view as part of the sidebar!) <hr> As regular, some quick notes on the meta around the wiki: - - We're pleased to announce a new, spectacularly <s>spiteful</s> <s>salacious</s> speculative partnership: Homestuck Music Dot Wiki has now been acquired by <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=man+i+love+fishing&iar=images">MILF</a>! <small><small>/joke</small></small> + - We're pleased to announce a new, spectacularly <s>spiteful</s> <s>salacious</s> speculative partnership: Homestuck Music Dot Wiki has now been acquired by [MILF](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=man+i+love+fishing&iar=images)! <small><small>/joke</small></small> - On a more <small>(less? lol)</small> personal level, I was dealing with feelings of burnout for a while this month, and ended up writing an entry on where I was at in the #devblog there. (It's a few weeks back in the channel, if you'd like to give it a read.) Although my energy and motivation have been returning in the last couple weeks, the general conclusion still stands: since I'm one person and the wiki is a hobby project (as I'm happy it is), code development time will generally be put where and when I have motivation to work. There won't be as many self-imposed expectations to complete huge sub-projects, though they'll still get attention when the time comes! And monthly updates will remain, though they'll likely be less focused than prior releases, in service of giving the wiki the time and space to breathe and develop more naturally. As ever, thank you for the support and feedback. Besides the Discord, [[static:feedback|our usual channels remain open]], so you're much encouraged to share any comments or music suggestions for the coming releases! <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> @@ -496,11 +725,11 @@ Content: |- Last update was another heavily development-focused one; reworking the codebase to support localization was a fairly daunting task. With that largely complete, though, we had the chance to focus on the core of the wiki again - music! 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, <a href="https://mspfa.com/?s=33534&p=1">DELTASTUCK</a>!) - 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! + (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-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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIyu12_DBaAkDfFq-UQuHNw">video essayist</a> 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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOVvrdnGToXUGOejNbpy8a3B6Tixkv-kg">2020 Song-A-Day</a> 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!) + 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!) (Oh! Also, the new [[group:psycholonials]] albums. Plus, courtesy of Niklink, the track lists for [[flash:psycholonials|the flashes]] now contain the full lists of tracks featured, not just the ones from each chapter's corresponding album.) We've had the invaluable pleasure of speaking with each of these artists through the process of bringing their albums to the wiki. If there are any albums, solo or otherwise, that you'd like to see shared on the wiki (or would like to link us your own!), feel welcomed to [[static:feedback|contact us]]! We hope you enjoy exploring the releases we've shared here today. <hr> @@ -523,8 +752,8 @@ Content: |- Hello again! We have a smaller update to share this month - mostly polish and internal restructuring. It's all in the aims of making the site more accessible; we're now <b>looking for translators</b> to help bring the site around the world! Details, as usual, past the split. <hr class="split"> <i>As ever, thank you to everyone who sent feedback and kind messages during development! We're also very grateful for all [[static:donate|supporters of the wiki]], including: Nights, enchantingHunter, and vriska/leo!</i> - As mentioned in the intro, we're looking for translators to help make the site more accessible for people around the world. We've done our best to streamline and make the process as simple as possible; please visit this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WLkw1Q-OECXdaNB4LB8neL92F1JNL0q1gGn8zVpZLec/edit">Wiki Localization - Project Outline</a> document for all the info! - TL;DR: Join the <a href="discord/">Community Discord Server</a> and drop a message, and we'll give you permission to edit the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BUSanXH5FNU0thJAcW5bw41UuuxKbMHkGsPxt9eyQ4U/edit#gid=0">Working Sheets</a> (plus the team chat, where you can discuss translation and ask any related questions). Enter translated values for the provided reference strings; then, to get a second pair of eyes from another translator, write a sign-off name and mark the row for review! + As mentioned in the intro, we're looking for translators to help make the site more accessible for people around the world. We've done our best to streamline and make the process as simple as possible; please visit this [Wiki Localization - Project Outline](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WLkw1Q-OECXdaNB4LB8neL92F1JNL0q1gGn8zVpZLec/edit) document for all the info! + TL;DR: Join the [[static:discord|Community Discord Server]] and drop a message, and we'll give you permission to edit the [Working Sheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BUSanXH5FNU0thJAcW5bw41UuuxKbMHkGsPxt9eyQ4U/edit#gid=0) (plus the team chat, where you can discuss translation and ask any related questions). Enter translated values for the provided reference strings; then, to get a second pair of eyes from another translator, write a sign-off name and mark the row for review! There are currently less than 300 (all very short) messages to translate across the wiki. <b>You don't need prior, professional translation experience to join;</b> anyone who knows another language in addition to English is welcome to contribute what they'd like! Thank you so much for considering, and if you choose to, for joining the project. We aren't too sure where to share this around yet, so for now it'll probably only be regular visitors to the wiki - like you, probably! If you enjoy translating and know friends who might, word of mouth will get the project around; we'd be deeply grateful if you share your experience and help bring the wiki to more translators and visitors around the world. Thank you! <hr> @@ -537,7 +766,7 @@ Content: |- - Before, [[listing:groups/by-name|Groups - by Name]] and [[listing:groups/by-category|Groups - by Category]] would each open a group's Info section and a group's Gallery section, respectively. This was because <em>in general</em> we default to linking to info pages rather than galleries, but <i>Groups - by Category</i> was being linked from gallery pages themselves - via the "choose another group to filter by" button. With this update, group names in both listings link to the info page by default, but we've added adjacent gallery links for that original easy access as well! - As mentioned in the artist page summary, we've moved "featured in" links over to [[listing:tracks/in-flashes/by-album|Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Album)]]. We feel they fit better here! - And we've done the mirror for [[listing:tracks/in-flashes/by-flash|Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Flash)]] too, adding the album names into that list. Both these listings should be more fun and interesting to navigate now. :) - Of course, there are many internal changes too - enough to come to over two hours a day per sixteen active days of development, according to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11L4ksnILTNKuLXT5PBIBxr34cZ0wk6P9aZO-vpeSsnU/edit#gid=1993970319">our timetables</a>! We won't bore you with the specifics here... but if they do interest you, particular details are, as ever, [[static:changelog#12-mar-2021|in the changelog]]! + Of course, there are many internal changes too - enough to come to over two hours a day per sixteen active days of development, according to [our timetables](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11L4ksnILTNKuLXT5PBIBxr34cZ0wk6P9aZO-vpeSsnU/edit#gid=1993970319)! We won't bore you with the specifics here... but if they do interest you, particular details are, as ever, [[static:changelog#12-mar-2021|in the changelog]]! <hr> As is probably now regular: the meta around the wiki! :) - Of course, with this news update, we've launched the wiki localization project! If you happen to have read down here <em>and</em> know a language besides English... well, the project is dependent on interested folk like you, so *nudge*? :) Though seriously, we really don't know how far this will go yet - but we're confident it's no pipe dream, and we're excited to see the wiki more accessible across different languages. We don't plan to ever shut the project down, so translators will always be welcome, today and years from now all the same! @@ -569,7 +798,7 @@ Content: |- - [[album:desynced-vol-1]] - [[album:desynced-vol-2]] - [[album:election-season]] - - These are all soundtracks for the fanventure <a href="https://desynced.xyz/">Desynced</a>. We haven't read the comic yet, but all the tracks here - and their art! - are really excellent! + - These are all soundtracks for the fanventure [Desynced](https://desynced.xyz/). We haven't read the comic yet, but all the tracks here - and their art! - are really excellent! - From [[group:psycholonials]]: - Just the first release, [[album:psycholonials-ep-1]], for now! - These show up in a new row on the homepage. We'll add more EPs as they're released, in distinct updates from the main wiki releases! @@ -583,14 +812,14 @@ Content: |- Finally, there have been a bunch of internal changes. I won't bore you with the technical details - those are in the [[static:changelog#12-feb-2021|changelog]]! :) But here, I do want to share a little about the goals we're working towards (and that this code is a big part of). Together - both the dev and the community of contributors! - we've created a really fantastic and powerful music wiki I know I'm proud of, seeing how it's grown and improved since it started! As that development continues, we've been facing a few big questions about the grander context of the wiki. Here's the one we focused on this update: This wiki has a clear, defined scope. However, the underlying <i>software</i> is a featureful, powerful creation in its own right. <b>Could the wiki code be generalized to act as a basis for other wikis?</b> - Hence began the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c">Generalized It</a> project, which I focused on for most of the first half of the month of development time. It's still a work in progress, but we made pretty big progress: we've separated almost all content specific to any wiki from the main code (meaning it can be customized across any version of your own wiki), updated the CLI tooling to make swapping wikis for development easy, and put together two experimental demo wikis! If you're curious, check 'em out: <a href="https://nebula.ed1.club/skeleton-wiki/">Skeleton</a>, <a href="https://nebula.ed1.club/flora-wiki/">Floraverse</a>! - Although it's still in progress, I hope in the future anyone with the interest and time will be able to create their own wikis based on the code here. There's still much documentation to be written (and probably tooling to be improved) before it's really ready for use, but if you'd like to explore the code anyway, <a href="https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-wiki/">it's all public!</a> (So's <a href="https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-data/">the HSMusic source data</a> if you're curious!) + Hence began the [Generalized It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c) project, which I focused on for most of the first half of the month of development time. It's still a work in progress, but we made pretty big progress: we've separated almost all content specific to any wiki from the main code (meaning it can be customized across any version of your own wiki), updated the CLI tooling to make swapping wikis for development easy, and put together two experimental demo wikis! If you're curious, check 'em out: [Skeleton](https://nebula.ed1.club/skeleton-wiki/), [Floraverse](https://nebula.ed1.club/flora-wiki/)! + Although it's still in progress, I hope in the future anyone with the interest and time will be able to create their own wikis based on the code here. There's still much documentation to be written (and probably tooling to be improved) before it's really ready for use, but if you'd like to explore the code anyway, [it's all public!](https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-wiki/) (So's [the HSMusic source data](https://git.ed1.club/nebula/hsmusic-data/) if you're curious!) There are still many exciting things to come, and plenty more internal changes as foundation for 'em. It takes a while to design and implement any large change like this - but when it's ready, I hope you'll be excited to see! <hr> As in last month's entry: the meta around the wiki! :) - - Again, thanks graciously to our first supporters on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/qznebula">Patreon</a> and <a href="https://liberapay.com/nebula">Liberapay</a>! I really didn't expect it to step up from the ground so quickly. In case you missed it, we updated the tiers on Patreon; the profile names of supporters will show up as part of news entries, as well as on the [[static:about|About & Credits]] page. + - Again, thanks graciously to our first supporters on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/qznebula) and [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/nebula)! I really didn't expect it to step up from the ground so quickly. In case you missed it, we updated the tiers on Patreon; the profile names of supporters will show up as part of news entries, as well as on the [[static:about|About & Credits]] page. - The [[static:discord|Community Discord Server]] grew pretty significantly over the development of this release! Working with everyone there was a blast. Thanks to feedback, we restructured the wiki a little, too: there are new #devblog, #devblog-discussion, and #git-update channels, all for keeping up with and discussing particular progress on the wiki! No more need to go through chat backlog; the info's all here. :3 - - <a href="https://leo60228.space/">leo</a> released an awesome tool called <a href="https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-automatically-add-track-art-to-id3-tags-including-fan-anthologies-and-post-2019-bandcamp/">hsmusicifier</a>! It adds track art and artist information from HSMusic to your own music library, and has <a href="https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-0-2-0-add-track-art-and-artist-info-to-your-homestuck-music-collection-in-any-format/">a bunch</a> of <a href="https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-0-3-0-split-up-bundled-albums-with-additional-flexibility-for-art/">other utilities</a> too. Our car dashboard shows track art for what's currently playing; it's been a wonder to have the original art restored, as well as the anthology fanart for albums like [[album:homestuck-vol-5]] and [[album:beyond-canon]] show up there! + - [leo](https://leo60228.space/) released an awesome tool called [hsmusicifier](https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-automatically-add-track-art-to-id3-tags-including-fan-anthologies-and-post-2019-bandcamp/)! It adds track art and artist information from HSMusic to your own music library, and has [a bunch](https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-0-2-0-add-track-art-and-artist-info-to-your-homestuck-music-collection-in-any-format/) of [other utilities](https://leo60228.space/hsmusicifier-0-3-0-split-up-bundled-albums-with-additional-flexibility-for-art/) too. Our car dashboard shows track art for what's currently playing; it's been a wonder to have the original art restored, as well as the anthology fanart for albums like [[album:homestuck-vol-5]] and [[album:beyond-canon]] show up there! As ever, thank you for the support and feedback. Besides the Discord, [[static:feedback|our usual channels remain open]], so you're much encouraged to share any comments or music suggestions for the coming releases! <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> --- @@ -616,11 +845,11 @@ Content: |- - (2018) [[album:contritum]], a single-track release for the conclusion of Oceanfalls' first chapter - (2019) [[album:oceanfalls-vol-2]], an album packed with music and art now from a diverse set of musicians (many who would go on to compose the esteemed <i>catgirl music</i>-pioneering [[album:oceanfalls-vol-3]]!) - From [[artist:tee-vee]] (who also contributed several tracks to [[album:friendsymphony]]): - - (2020) [[album:theres-no-place-like-home]], a prog rock medley album celebrating virtually the entire official discography of Homestuck music! (Be sure to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0YkQn_zLU">check out the movie</a>!) + - (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 <a href="https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Leitmotifs">the Undertale Wiki</a> - - (2018) [[album:deltarune-ch1-ost]], also with leitmotif information thanks to <a href="https://deltarune.fandom.com/wiki/Leitmotifs">the Deltarune Wiki</a> + - (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.) @@ -632,7 +861,7 @@ Content: |- <hr> Finally, some announcements surrounding the wiki (the <i>meta</i>, if you will): - <b>Discord:</b> We've started [[static:discord|a Discord server]] for the wiki! Actually, it's been around for a few months, but we haven't publicized the link properly until now (it's in the "get involved" section on the homepage too). Follow the community guidelines and rules, and all are welcome to join and chat about the wiki, Homestuck music, and similar such shenanigans! (Psst, WIP update teasers are frequently shared here!) - - <b>Patreon:</b> It occurred to us one strange, ominous night that Liberapay is <i>not actually</i> a platform most people are familiar with. So, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/qznebula">we started a Patreon</a> focused on the music wiki! As ever, there's no pressure to donate, but it would go much appreciated if you're able - this update took over <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11L4ksnILTNKuLXT5PBIBxr34cZ0wk6P9aZO-vpeSsnU/edit#gid=1993970319">45 hours</a> to put together, in all! + - <b>Patreon:</b> It occurred to us one strange, ominous night that Liberapay is <i>not actually</i> a platform most people are familiar with. So, [we started a Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/qznebula) focused on the music wiki! As ever, there's no pressure to donate, but it would go much appreciated if you're able - this update took over [45 hours](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11L4ksnILTNKuLXT5PBIBxr34cZ0wk6P9aZO-vpeSsnU/edit#gid=1993970319) to put together, in all! - <b>Updates:</b> Like we mentioned at the top of this news entry, updates for the site will be releasing once a month now, aiming for release every twelfth, provided no (un)natural disasters get in the way! This is kind of experimental, but we figure it'll be fun to have a specific day visitors of the wiki can get excited for. As ever, thank you for the support and feedback. Besides the Discord, [[static:feedback|our usual channels remain open]], so you're much encouraged to share any comments or music suggestions for the coming releases! <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> @@ -642,7 +871,7 @@ Directory: hsmusicwiki Date: December 12, 2020 Content: |- <i>Welcome to all visitors, new and returning!</i> - We're proud to announce the launch of <a href="https://hsmusic.wiki/">https://HSMusic.wiki</a>, the new home of the Homestuck Music Wiki! If you've visited the wiki before, you've probably already noticed plenty of changes. I'll cover a few of the changes in this news entry, and talk about the future direction of the wiki too - there's been a shift over the last few updates I'd love to shed some light on. :) + We're proud to announce the launch of [https://HSMusic.wiki](https://hsmusic.wiki/), the new home of the Homestuck Music Wiki! If you've visited the wiki before, you've probably already noticed plenty of changes. I'll cover a few of the changes in this news entry, and talk about the future direction of the wiki too - there's been a shift over the last few updates I'd love to shed some light on. :) <hr class="split"> <i>First off: I'd like to personally thank [[artist:tempest2k]], [[artist:foreverflummoxed]], and Niklink for their help putting this update together; I worked with all three through its development, and it wouldn't be as complete or cohesive an update without their feedback and encouragement. Extra thanks to nata for tech help as we moved the site from GitHub Pages to an independently hosted server and domain, and to everyone we contacted for being so welcoming to share their music on the wiki!</i> If you've been following the changelog for the last several updates, you might've noticed an interesting assortment of albums coming to the wiki: Clark Powell's [[album:labyrinths-heart]], Casual Sunday's [[album:shortcuts]], and Kal-la-kal-la's [[album:exceptis-excipiendis]], for example. What do these albums have in common? Well, none of them are <i>quite</i> Homestuck albums; across all three, only the track [[track:requiem-labyrinths-heart]] could be considered an outright Homestuck track! However, each album was created by recognizable artists within the sphere of Homestuck music. Could this pattern be significant? @@ -650,14 +879,14 @@ Content: |- <b>HSMusic is expanding its focus to feature, side-by-side with Homestuck-specific releases, albums created by artists who've found a home as part of the Homestuck music scene!</b> This is in keeping in line with the basic guide of the wiki from the start: <i>celebration</i>. Since the start, we've been celebrating the music we love - through archival, presentation, and discovery. With the former two being polished and perfected over the the year since [[static:changelog#15-nov-19|initial release]], I figure it's time to revisit and prioritize that third one: discovery! So, just as [[static:changelog#1-mar-20|half a year ago]], the scope of the wiki is expanding once again. For the forseeable future, in addition to the usual site updates and tweaks part of every major update, you'll be finding new albums shared on the wiki regularly! I'd strongly encourage you to check out their personal sites, and of course, purchase the albums you particularly enjoy, if you're able - every artist appreciates support for their creations! - On that note, <a href="https://liberapay.com/nebula">I've opened a Liberapay</a> if you'd like to throw a dollar or two my way as tips for my work on the wiki - I'm immensely thankful, of course, but no expectations either! We have enough to keep the site running as-is regardless. :) + On that note, [I've opened a Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/nebula) if you'd like to throw a dollar or two my way as tips for my work on the wiki - I'm immensely thankful, of course, but no expectations either! We have enough to keep the site running as-is regardless. :) <hr> So, without further ado, some update highlights: - A totally redesigned homepage! It's considerably denser than before - but I'm hoping I've managed to reach that peculiar paradox of it being more usable as a landing page as well. - Five new albums, plus some goodies: - [[album:hiveswap-act-2-ost]] - yes, with complete credits. ([[root:media/misc/hiveswap-act-2-breakdown.png|Thanks, James Roach!]]) - - [[album:homestuck-for-the-holidays]] and [[album:tomb-of-the-ancestors]], the two albums from <a href="https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/">Homestuck Gaiden</a> we hadn't archived before! (As far as I know, this is the first time per-track art credits for ToTH have ever been released - much thanks to the album's artist, [[artist:kalibration]], for helping with this via email!) - - [[album:the-genesis-project-vol-1]] and [[album:oceanfalls-vol-3]], compilation albums from artists who by and large found their roots in the Homestuck music scene! Check out The Genesis Project, a fan-game aiming to replicate Sburb itself, at <a href="https://www.sburb.me/">sburb.me</a>; and Oceanfalls, an excellent webcomic inspired by Homestuck but certainly its own standalone work, at <a href="https://oceanfalls.net/">oceanfalls.net</a>! + - [[album:homestuck-for-the-holidays]] and [[album:tomb-of-the-ancestors]], the two albums from [Homestuck Gaiden](https://homestuckgaiden.bandcamp.com/) we hadn't archived before! (As far as I know, this is the first time per-track art credits for ToTH have ever been released - much thanks to the album's artist, [[artist:kalibration]], for helping with this via email!) + - [[album:the-genesis-project-vol-1]] and [[album:oceanfalls-vol-3]], compilation albums from artists who by and large found their roots in the Homestuck music scene! Check out The Genesis Project, a fan-game aiming to replicate Sburb itself, at [sburb.me](https://www.sburb.me/); and Oceanfalls, an excellent webcomic inspired by Homestuck but certainly its own standalone work, at [oceanfalls.net](https://oceanfalls.net/)! - [[album:perfectly-generic-object]], a lovely track from [[artist:cristata]] following its earlier album [[album:perfectly-generic-album]]! - ...and the original four releases of [[album:homestuck-vol-1]], [[album:homestuck-vol-2]], [[album:homestuck-vol-3]], and [[album:homestuck-vol-4]]. Check 'em out! - A bunch of stylistic changes and tweaks across the site, all in the hopes of making a more usable and coherent design - or in less pretentious jargon, I'm trying to make things look better. :) Besides remaking the homepage from scratch: |