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diff --git a/news.yaml b/news.yaml index f352c52b..b50e080b 100644 --- a/news.yaml +++ b/news.yaml @@ -21,6 +21,28 @@ Content: |- - 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! 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 stand-outs 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. + + 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! + + 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]]. + + <i>~ Quasar Nebula</i> --- Name: crystal hung in firmament's descent Directory: crystal-hung-in-firmaments-descent |