Changelog
- (Preview changelog!)
site changes
- (nebula writes about all the site changes here)
- new Additional Files feature added, including downloadable album booklets and other goodies, present across many official albums: Homestuck Vol. 4, Homestuck Vol. 5, Alternia, Squiddles!, Strife!, AlterniaBound, Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion, Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, Sburb, The Wanderers, Homestuck Vol. 8, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, Homestuck Vol. 9, One Year Older, Cherubim, and Homestuck Vol. 10
- includes all booklets and resources released with official albums that aren't included in downloads from the recent (2019) official Homestuck Bandcamp restructure
- files from solo re-releases are included and shared publicly on the wiki with permission from their original artists
- Unreleased Tracks has been completely reorganized, with many tracks having been moved to new organizational albums More Homestuck Fandom and References Beyond Homestuck, all collected under new Additional Tracks group
- "new" Albums - by Date Added listing, which has actually existed since May 2021, but was previously somehow at a typo'd path and wasn't accessible from the listing index
- "Tracks that reference..." lists are now grouped by Beyond and Additional Tracks as well, instead of grouping everything that's not an official Homestuck track under Fandom
- re-release tracks (such as Black from Homestuck Vol. 1-4) are no longer displayed in "Tracks that referenec" lists, and aren't counted in the Tracks - by Times Referenced listing
- colored track sections were removed from Unreleased Tracks since it's been divided into more specific albums anyway, but they're now used in other areas of the site, including Prospit & Derse and Homestuck Vol. 1-4
- though not all art has been ported yet, many albums and tracks (including most new ones) now have full resolution PNG artwork, accessible by clicking the cover art (thumbnails are still downscaled JPEGs to reduce data usage when generally browsing the wiki), as well as PNG banner and backgrounds where applicable
- "short name" for the wiki changed has been chagned from "HSMusic" to "HSMusic Wiki" - this shows up in browser tab titles, the site navigation bar, and social embeds like Discord
- slight tweaks to the appearance of album grids (as in group and tag galleries), most notably aligning tiles to the top of each row so that artwork always shows up in an even line
- improvements to the way track artist strings are word wrapped, preventing pages from getting wider than they're supposed to be when a track has many artists (such as Left-Hand Remix)
- also fixed word wrapping on content pages with extremely long single words (like IIYWASWIWTBOTSA4AATWUOTDTMIHCIMFH) when the screen is thinner than that word
- internal support for albums which don't have cover art at all, as seen in new albums from Additional Tracks and some releases from the community
- new internal features which generalize hard-coded behavior for the Unreleased Tracks, letting new albums make use of some or all desired features:
- internal support for albums which don't have release dates (these get sorted to the end on artist pages and are excluded from chronology links)
- new "Has Track Numbers" field on albums which switches between the default
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albums
- album addition credits:
- thanks to koba for putting together a huge spreadsheet of album data from Cool and New Music Team (including all-new track reference lists)
- thanks to vriska/leo for entering the initial album data for DELTARUNE Chapter 2 OST, plus other additions under UNDERTALE & DELTARUNE
- thanks to Niklink for filling out the album data for pretty much every other album listed below, and going to much-commendable effort to catalogue a master list of over 300 albums (and singles) from the Homestuck fandom that are hosted on Bandcamp
- thanks to everyone who shared missed album media and reported data errors, listed later in the "other additions" and "data changes" section!
- added Land of Fans and Music 5!
- new artists: $C4RL3TT, Aradiawithgeese, bakustrider, cloudie, crabaqqle, dromswell, Fabricio Podestá, FlareDragon, J-Airshiper, L4Vo5, Mmueoul, Momora, Monckat, nagunkgunk, paging_possum, Shwan, subversiveasset, Sylvarn, tamajikis, V-6, WarxTron
- updated links and names for several artists based on their credits for this album
- new referenced fandom tracks for songs referenced in the album: A Very "O" Christmas, All Alone, Blankest Stare, D--> Break the Bow, Die., Dwelling Among the Dream Bubbles, Eclipse, Exploring the Depths of Sburb, Five-Four Stress, Flight of the White Wolf, Gentle Heat, In the Beginning, It Looks Back, Jittery Optimist, Mayorlovania, Miasmic Decay, More Real than Kraft Mayo, saoidfisd, Slamdown, Snowfall, Song for Rose Lalonde, Switchback, Temporal Virtuoso, Windwielder
- new referenced non-homestuck tracks as well: Boss Mode, Destroy Them With Lazers, LRAD, My Sharona, No More Elders, PLUR Police, Schala's Theme, Shave and a Haircut, Title (Mega Man 3)
- new artist entries for these in turn: Bambosh, Braiden Brian, Gordian, greenTetrahedron, SolusLunes, Rowyn Berlan, Knife Party, Mega Man, The Knack
- Gold Mage [Playtime is Over Mix] is now in LoFaM5 instead of Unreleased Tracks
- new artists: $C4RL3TT, Aradiawithgeese, bakustrider, cloudie, crabaqqle, dromswell, Fabricio Podestá, FlareDragon, J-Airshiper, L4Vo5, Mmueoul, Momora, Monckat, nagunkgunk, paging_possum, Shwan, subversiveasset, Sylvarn, tamajikis, V-6, WarxTron
- added [Super-Unofficial Album] SBURB OST: BONUS DLC! by Brad Griffin!
- added Bee-forus: Seatbelt Safebee (thanks, Circlejourney!)
- added all three Tumblrstuck/bent albums by Samm Neiland!
- added the Cool and New Music Team group!
- added cool and new voulem.1!
- new artists: Ahnock, Aiden Griffin Hanks, Avianzo, flagellumVagueness, Frikiman, johnjammin, miraculousAvantgarde, Monifate, No Funny Name, o, Peachy Peter, Putnam, Vriska Did Nothing Wrong
- Archagent Everlasting, Cascante, and justice must be a serve are now here instead of in More Homestuck Fandom
- new referenced fandom tracks: HEY MAN VOLUME 10 MAN HEY CHECK IT OUT, Karkalicious (by new artist Superspecks!), Post-Apocalyptic Fedora
- new referenced non-homestuck tracks: Bon Voyage, Amigo, Bowman's Credit Score (can you guess what it is?), Game Over, Fergalicious, Für Elise, Michael Bowman Remix, radiation is now on youtube, The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy - Title Theme/Ending
- new artists for these: Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix the Cat, Fergie, Naoto Yagishita, Yasuko Yamada
- added cool and new volume 2 and cool and new volume II!
- new artists: 413, azureCacophony, Bin, BitesizeBird, Cloudaria, CogentInvalid, DagwoodDeluxe. flamingfusion, frosted flakes, Gordian, Griffington, jakkyr, Minkt, MoreEpicThanYou747, Petr Kratochvil, Rom M, samuel, SlantedSlash, sunil_b, tegusoft
- Chalk Emerald, Lord Spanish, and Tick are now here instead of in More Homestuck Fandom, along with new entry Game Hypothesis
- new referenced non-homestuck tracks: 300 This is Sparta Remix!!!, Boss Battle, Brodyquest, Chopsticks, Dragon Roost Island, Feel Good Inc., Futurama Main Theme, Megalo Strike Back, Messiah, Michael Rosen Rap, Moonlight Sonata, Red Like Roses Part II, Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, Splatoon "Squid Kid" TV Commercial, Waluigi Pinball / Wario Stadium, Where the Guns at
- new artists for these: Azusa Chiba, Casey Lee Williams, Christopher Tyng, Euphemia Allen, George Frideric Handel, Futurama, Gorillaz, Jeff Williams, Joonas Turner, Jukio Kallio, Keaton Monger, Kenta Nagata, Kimihiro Abe, Masaharu Iwata, Michael Rosen, Nuclear Throne, RWBY, Sandy Lee Casey, Shinobu Tanaka, Skrillex, Toru Minegishi
- added [NSFW] Penumbra オーガズム:百万ドルリミックス( Gunshow Singalong )の小ローン and new artist dick2bombs!
- added Of Troles and Chiptumes by cookiefonster!
- new artists: DrWorm, drXfactorz, NyashAlex, Sbahjsic, Toast, wank_wank
- new referenced fandom tracks: Catscratch, Eridan's Theme...?, Long Night Ahead, also Rex Mille Geromius is no longer in this category
- many new (and cool) art tags, check the end of this changelog for details
- added cool and new voulem.1!
- added DELTARUNE Chapter 2 OST by Toby Fox, with some accompanying tweaks:
- added a bunch of CD/vinyl release bonus tracks to UNDERTALE Soundtrack
- added Gaster's Theme, now included in reference lists for Gaster's Theme and Another Noir (Extended Void Mix)
- new artists: coda, flashygoodness, Lena Raine, and Ace Attorney (somehow)
- added Songs from the Planet Earth!
- new artists: Blue Lennox, CassandraOOC, Feidlimid, Jordan Chin, Madipup, Mercy Rose, NattySashy, Robogauntlet, slamalama_1, tunesofjasmine, valdotpng, Vance Duche
- new referenced non-homestuck tracks: Drift Away, Haven't You Noticed (I'm A Star), Lapis Lazuli, Peace and Love on the Planet Earth, Tower of Mistakes, We Are The Crystal Gems, What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)?
- new artists for these: Aimee Mann, Aivi & Surasshu, Deedee Magno-Hall, Hellen Jo, Jeff Ball, Jeff Liu, Michaela Dietz, Olivia Olson, Patti LuPone, Sarah Stiles, Shelby Rabara, Stemage, Tom Scharpling, Zach Callison
- added Songs Unsung by Tensei!
- added >Exile< by Bill Bolin!
- Strider Showdown (loop) is now here instead of in Unreleased Tracks
- added Heinoustuck Vol. 1!
- new artists: Ainsil, Amanda Singleton, Artsekey, aswfs, audren, DarkHakao, eridamnit, heinousdave, HexVertigo, karelianArmy, kikischeese, Nicole Feltz, Raptortier, Sarcastic Fringehead, sticler, Yorsh
- added 7th Gate Project by Catboss!
- added Glitchstuck Volume 1 by new artist (yep) Glitchstuck!
- added Team Paradox by new artist (wait for it) Team Paradox!
- new artists: mediokreKarapase, Sadochist, Patrick Gilmore (for When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
- added Play the Rain by Lark Mordancy!
- added Nice Wizard's Electronic Extravaganza! by new artist Nice Wizard!
- added Homestuck For Orchestra EP by new artist Walt Ribeiro!
- added A Viral Medium Vol.1 by new artist Maggot and new cover artists Shintari and Deer!
- added SBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD!
- new artists: Crustacean Mother, Gnøs, IshmaelCFisher, sunsprite, Viceroy of Monte Cristo, YoItsCro
- new fandom tracks: Overlook, Pumpkin Tide (Acoustic Version w/ Chords), Vast Error (& new artist dbnet)
- added Heaven;Sent and Homestuck by new artist Swagazaki!
- new artist: Chimune and new referenced non-homestuck track: Toxic Caves by new artist Howard Drossin
- added Capricious Mistress - Single and Fuchsia Ruler - Single by Kezinox!
- new artist: coffee-and-paperbags
- added Olive Scribe by Bleed Binary
- added Rust Apocalypse [Anniversary Remaster] by Willow Ascenzo!
- added Ophiuchus (Full Suite) by WarxTron
other additions
- added eight missing bonus tracks to Strife 2 (thanks, Cello!)
- added five missing bonus instrumental tracks to Ancestral (thanks, deesoff!)
- added Audio Commentary Featuring Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, Luke "GFD" Benjamins, and Erik "Jit" Scheele to Jailbreak Vol. 1
- fully transcribed, all 43 minutes of it (thanks Nameless Rumia for the initial transcription!)
- added updated lyrics, references contributors, and art tags to The Baby is You throughout the album
- added Lose Yourself and Eminem for references
- added STRIFE! [Battle] and booklet commentary to SBURB OST
- added background wallpaper to Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead
- added banner to Archive
- added The Ballad of Jack Noir, Conflict!, haunt and Mother to More Homestuck Fandom for referencing
- added I Knew You Were Trouble, I'm A Believer, and What's Up to References Beyond Homestuck for referencing references (thanks, Gibus Wearing Brony!), also Walk-Smash-Walk
data changes
- added information for separate 'sampling' reference field to many tracks (mainly in Official, Homestuck Gaiden, and Land of Fans and Music 5), not visible for now until support is implemented
- some reference information will have appeared to disappear until then as it has been moved to samples
- moved Desynced and Perfectly Generic Object from Beyond to Fandom
- added the individual Psycholonials episode albums to Beyond
- added MOVIE #1: hooly SHIT, wear a MOVIE??????????? to the Miscellaneous section of Flashes & Games and SBAHJ THE MOVIE 1 to Unreleased Tracks
- Dave's Phat Beat Machine no longer features JOHN DO THE WINDY THING after the demise of Flash
- 'cp_close.mp3' has been retitled Captain Planet and the Planeteers End Title and is now in References Beyond Homestuck with new artists Murray McFadden, Timothy Mulhollan, and Nicholas Boxer
- fixed incorrect title for Skaian Dreams (Remix)
- fixed artist/contributor confusion between the original and rereleased versions of Harleboss and Explore (thanks, Niklink!)
- fixed Contention not attributing Toby Fox
- fixed Caramelldansen not attributing Caramell (thanks, vriska/leo!)
- fixed Red Sucker not attributing Kalibration (thanks, cookiefonster!)
- fixed Green Lolly and Red Sucker incorrectly attributing James Dever
- fixes Broom Temperature and Frondly Warning not attributing Jeff Liu or Cohen Edenfield
- fixed Day That Never Came/Someday/Together/Together/Together: Vocal Remix not attributing Astro Kid or each other properly
- fixed Oh God, Christmas! and A Very Special Time not attributing Robert J! Lake (thanks, Makin!)
- fixed A Spirited Conversation [Sprite Interaction] not attributing Max Wright or Marcy Nabors
- fixed Broken Dreams [Prospit's Fall] not attributing Max Wright
- fixed Emerald Icarus [Green Sun] not attributing Charles Neudorf
- fixed Metamorphic Choices [Kernel Prototyping] attributing Marcy Nabors as a co-artist instead of as a contributor
- fixed The Will to Fight Further [Denizen Strife] attributing Kevin Grant instead of Marcy Nabors
- fixed Take Flight [Battleship] not attributing cover artist Brad Griffin
- fixed Born to Die [Doomed Timeline] not attributing cover artist melodiousDiscord
- fixed We'll Be Right Back not attributing Braiden Brian (thanks, Celeste!)
- fixed Tacit Blue not attributing Richard Gung or his lyrics (thanks, Comfy!)
- fixed Carla Bravo, Kate Holden, koba, and Josefin B. having some artist credits under a different name
- divided previous artist "Lost in History" into two more specific labels, Unknown Artist and Traditional (thanks, Gibus Wearing Brony!)
- refined artist credits for some previously "Lost in History" tracks, including Deck the Halls, Tempus adest floridum in Good King Wenceslas, and The Star-Spangled Banner
- added specific artist credits to most video game tracks under Unreleased Tracks (in addition to existing franchise artists), plus a few from other outside media! (thanks a bunch, FF!)
- new artists: Aki Hata, Allister Brimble, Anne Bryant, Asuka Ito, Benjamin Wynn, Björn Thors, Daisuke Amaya, De La Soul, Delia Derbyshire, Estelle Swaray, Ford Klinder, Go Ichinose, Hideki Naganuma, Hiroaki Tominaga, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroki Hashimoto, Hiroki Kikuta, Hitomi Sato, Hoyt Curtin, Jeremy Zuckerman, Joseph Barbera, Jun Funahashi, Junichi Masuda, Kate Higgins, Keiichi Suzuki, Kenichi Matsubara, Koji Kondo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ludwig Ickert, Magnus Pålsson, Manaka Kataoka, Máni Svavarsson, Masahiro Andoh, Masakazu Sugimori, Masayuki Nagao, Max Coveri, Max Steiner, Megumi Inoue, Messiah, Mitsuo Terada, Mitsuto Suzuki, Naoto Kubo, Naoto Tanaka, Nick Balaban, Nobuo Uematsu, NUMP, Paul Williams, Quad City DJ's, Rebecca Sugar, revergo, Rob Tunstall, Ron Grainer, Saki Kabata, Sean Burnes, Shiho Fujii, Shinji Ushiroda, Shota Kageyama, Snorri Engilbertsson, Stefán Karl, Stephen Burns, Takahiro Yamada, Takako Hirasawa, The Refreshments, The Super Mario Players, Tommy Tallarico, Tomohito Nishiura, Toshio Masuda, William Hanna, Yasuaki Iwata, Yasuharu Takanashi, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoshihito Yano, Yugo Kanno, Yuka Tsujiyoko, Yumi Takahashi, and ZUN
- renamed tracks from SilvaGunner to their Bandcamp release names, for ease of reference reading and disambiguation (thanks, vriska/leo!)
- added specific artists for these tracks too!
- new artists: MtH, The Voice Inside Your Head, The Yabba Dabba μ's, ZVAARI
- lyrics fixes for Black, Friendship Aneurysm, Indigo Heir, Temporal Shenanigans, also The Sock Ruse (thanks, Celeste!) and Kalesa In Binondo (thanks, Comfy!)
- removed Bandcamp links for Indigo Archer and Temporal Shenanigans
- removed "Cooldown (Beta)" from Unreleased Tracks and redirected reference in Alpha Admission to Cooldown
- removed "7 GRAND DAD" and redirected references to Meet the Flintstones
- removed a few artists which weren't being referenced anywhere else
- moved misplaced links for "h0nk" to Danna Vital (thanks, Niklink!)
- fixed Verdancy (Bassline) not being listed the in reference list for Kinetic Verdancy
- fixed Guardian not being listed in the reference list for Guardian V2
- fixed The Ballad of Jack Noir not being listed in the reference list for The Ballad of Jack Noir
- fixed haunt not being listed in the reference list for Hauntjam
- fixed Five-Four Stress not being listed in the reference list for Stress
- fixed Showtime (Original Mix) not being listed in the reference list for Lifdoff
- fixed Black Rose / Green Sun not being listed in the reference list for Black Hole / White Door
- fixed Walk-Smash-Walk not being listed in the reference list for Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E) (thanks, Sgeo!)
- fixed Amen, Brother not being listed in the reference list for Airtime (thanks, Gibus Wearing Brony!)
- fixed HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA not being listed in the reference list for oh, 2017? (thanks, Niklink!)
- fixed Aggrieve Remix referencing Aggrieve instead of Aggrieve (Violin Refrain)
- fixed White Host, Green Room referencing The King in Red instead of The King in Red (Beta) (thanks, Cello!)
- fixed Lilith in Starlight referencing Mother by Erik Scheele instead of Mother by Malcolm Brown
- fixed 2016 but all the best memes happen at the same time referencing 7 GRAND DAD by SilvaGunner instead of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy - Title Theme/Ending
- fixed Typheus not being listed in the reference list for Heir of Grief
- fixed Audio Commentary Featuring Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, Luke "GFD" Benjamins, and Erik "Jit" Scheele not being listed in the reference list for Robert Jailbreak (and added lyrics) (thanks, Celeste & Niklink!)
- fixed Toby Fox Has Written Hundreds of Unique Original Songs referencing Ruins (by Erik Scheele) instead of Ruins (by Toby Fox)
- fixed Story of Tonight being named "Tomorrow There'll Be More Of Us" (thanks, Celeste!)
- fixed Gay Love Song for Four Cellos not being marked as the original release for Love Song
- fixed a number of syntax errors in data files, thanks to improved parsing and data review by Gio (thank you!):
- fixed artist commentary not showing up for Frogsong and Schrödinger's Harbinger
- fixed Instagram link not showing up for artist DSNAKE
- fixed YouTube and tumblr links not showing up for artist First Turn Fold
- fixed tumblr link not showing up for artist Thiefofstars
- fixed references not showing up for Fuchsia Ruler
- fixed art tag Carapacians having a broken tag color (which messed up the layout of the tag's gallery page and styled links to it as default white instead of the intended light gray)
- fixed broken media link in Jane Dargason's commentary (thanks, Comfy!)
- fixed pronouns in commentary for Stress (thanks, Comfy!)
- fixed La Espero not being listed in reference list for Malblanka Rozo Verda Stelo (thanks, Sgeo!)
- added La Espero and artists L. L. Zamenhof and Félicien Menu de Ménil
- fixed incorrect capitalization for SBURB OST
- fixed duration of Super Mario Bros. (The Movie), which was previously 1:04:14 (thanks, FF!)
- added Bandcamp links back to Clark Powell's albums: We Are All Satellites, Namesake, Someday, and Labyrinth's Heart (thanks, Celeste!)
- added Bandcamp link to Perfectly Generic Object (thanks, vriska/leo!)
- replaced dead Youtube links to The Felt, Constant Conquest, Celestial Fantasia, Corridors of Time, Icirrus City, Historia Crux, Left-Hand Remix, Terra's Theme, The Decisive Battle, Fear of the Heavens, all tracks from EarthBound, and removed dead Youtube link from Planetarium (thanks, foreverFlummoxed, Sgeo, Celeste!)
- added Youtube embeds for relevant videos to Homestuck Vol. 10 and Fly (thanks, Niklink!)
- added listen links to Bill Bolin's tracks on the official Homestuck albums (thanks, Niklink!)
- fixed wrong Youtube link for Virgin Orb (thanks, Sgeo!)
- directory changed for some Jailbreak Vol. 1 content
- added artist links and changed name of Clydesdale Edwin, formerly The Black Curtain (thanks, Vortexius!)
- fixed broken code repository link in About & Credit page (thanks, nanaian!)
- fixed bad artist links for Samm Neiland (thanks, Vortexius!) and Kalibration (thanks, deesoff!)
- misc artist data fixes (thanks, MT Argentum!)
- made the song names in Prospit & Derse and Homestuck Vol. 1-4 appropriate colors per-section :)
- loads of art tag additions and fixes:
- added hundreds of art tags to all albums under Official and Fandom, including many new setting / location tags
- new setting tags: Alternia, Battlefield, Beforus, Can Town, Dark Carnival, Deltritus, Derse, Dream Bubbles, Earth, Felt Manor, Frog Temple, Ruined Earth, The Theseus, LoBaF, LoCaH, LoCaS, LoDaG, LoFaF, LoFaM, LoHaC, LoLaR, LoLCaT, LoMaT, LoMaX, LoPaH, LoRaF, LoTaK, LoTaM, LoPaN, LoQaM, LoSaZ, LoTaF, LoWaA, LoWaS, Meteor, Prospit, Skaia, Veil
- new other tags: Jude, Sweet Bro, Hella Jeff, Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick, Pickle Inspector, Bees, Birds, Diemen, Gate, Homosuck, Horses, Imperial Drones, June, Sans, Lotus, Skylla's lusus, Tumor
- new CaNWC tags: Jhon, Dabe, Jaed, Dadd, Beq, Kraket, Terexi, Equihorse, Gametez, Hecka Jef, Swet Bro, Germy, Rubs Juice, Hrates Bocars, Dacronian Dignity (thanks, Niklink!)
- new Desynced tags: Kate (Desynced), Kate's dad (Desynced), Evan (Desynced), Evan's mum (Desynced), Momo (Desynced), Josh (Desynced), CS (Desynced), Lee (Desynced), Ananke (Desynced), "Her" (Desynced), Masky (Desynced), Gaea (Desynced), Skaia (Desynced) (thanks, Celeste!)
- new Heinoustuck tags: John (Heinoustuck), Rose (Heinoustuck), Dave (Heinoustuck), Jade (Heinoustuck)
- new Oceanfalls tags: Aria (Oceanfalls), Corona (Oceanfalls), Five (Oceanfalls), Kaji (Oceanfalls), Kotori (Oceanfalls), Lune (Oceanfalls), Meimona (Oceanfalls), Nino (Oceanfalls), Onyx (Oceanfalls), Reed (Oceanfalls), Ruit (Oceanfalls), Ruta (Oceanfalls), Selene (Oceanfalls), Serena (Oceanfalls), Solis (Oceanfalls), Suvillan (Oceanfalls)
- removed Midnight Crew tag and replaced with individual character tags
- plus miscellaneous fixes and additions for existing tags in these albums
- huge thanks to Celeste for doing the initial pass of all art for setting tags, and everyone who shared feedback in the #art-tag-review Discord channel, including Cello, deesoff, foreverFlummoxed, Geese, vriska, Makin, megatti, and Niklink!
- added art tags for all Desynced albums (thanks, Celeste!)
- added art tags for all Oceanfalls albums:
- Oceanfalls Vol. 1 & Oceanfalls Vol. 2 (thanks, Celeste!)
- Oceanfalls Vol. 3 (thanks, nuclear333!)
- added art tags for all track arts consisting of screenshots of official material (filed under Homestuck) (thanks, Niklink!)
- added art tags for Weird Puzzle Tunes (thanks, Celeste!)
- added art tags for Strife!, Act 7, Hiveswap Act 1 OST, Perfectly Generic Album, The Funk McLovin Homestuck Experience, and The Baby is June's covers (thanks, Celeste & Niklink!)
- fixed art tags for Skaian Happy Flight, Respit, Hardchorale, Gravedigger's Dirge, and Ithaca Is Calling (thanks, Celeste!)
- added hundreds of art tags to all albums under Official and Fandom, including many new setting / location tags
data changes
- added missing A6I3 "weird moody horse shit" flashes (thanks, FF!)
- added missing bonus tracks from Rust Apocalypse as re-releases of their original appearances on coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A (thanks, deesoff!)
- added blood CW to Hauntjam (thanks, Low!)
- added blood (abstract) CW to Hauntjelly, too
- updated listen links for a number of tracks in Unreleased Tracks, using local archive uploads rather than relying on a torrent mirror
- Hawkeye (as heard in Sunsetter and Davesprite)
- Sea of Derse (as heard in Breeze)
- Shooting Star (as heard in Homefree)
- Skaia Voyages (as heard in Creata and Skaian Happy Flight)
- The Paradox Paradigm (as heard in a number of Unofficial MSPA Fans tracks)
- Where making this hapen (as heard, probably, in Rex Mille Geromius and, maybe, in Revisit/Rewind)
- fixed capitalization for Where making this hapen
bug fixes
- fixed domain-local URLs crashing a build (i.e. support for updated archive links)
- fixed re-release track links never text wrapping, messing up layout on pages such as Three in the Morning
- fixed flash art for [S][A6I3] ==> (may take a while to load)
data changes
- added missing (public!) bonus tracks from P[S] (thanks, deesoff!):
- added a bunch more tags from Low (thanks again!):
- added new Scalemates tag to The Lemonsnout Turnabout, Teal Seer, Trollcops, Perfectly Generic Album, and Scales
- added new Cats tag to Wisest Wizord, Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitler's Water Apocalypse, Pink Cat, Vodka Mutiny, and Ectobiology
- added Aradia, John, and Meenah tags to Perfectly Generic Album
- added The Disciple and Mindfang tags to lazutrix
- added Doc Scratch tag to Disc Three (thanks, FF!)
- added Green Sun tag to Black Rose / Green Sun, Forest Fire, Crystalanachrony, I Am Ascending (And It Is Terrible), Strife Mayhem, Emerald Icarus [Green Sun]
- added Horrorterrors tag to Black Rose / Green Sun
- added Jack Noir tag to Moonsweater
- added Lil Cal tag to Unlabeled and Ectobiology
- added Pyralspite tag to Teal Seer and Disc Three
- swapped out Tavros tag for Rufioh in Ghost Hole
- added cw animal death to Death of the Lusii
- added blood cw to Irradiated, The Carnival, Trollian Standoff, ETERNAL SUFFERING, SUBJUGGLATION, Disc Two, Disc Three, Walls Covered in Blood DX, A Rebel's Requiem
- added blood (abstract) cw to Nepeta's Theme and Fool [Explicit]
- added body horror cw to Disc Two
- added corpse cw to Corpse Casanova, Disc Two, Crockercorpse, Checkerboard Checkmate [Battlefield], A Rebel's Requiem
- swapped out blood (abstract) cw for blood in Cardinal Movement
data changes
- a bunch of tag fixes from Low (thank you!):
- added Karkat tag to Stride
- added blood cw to Pendulum
- added corpse cw and Horrorterrors tag to Doctor Remix
- added corpse cw to Underfoot
data changes
- made "reasonpeason" an alias for Rebecca Peason, updating art credits for Chaotic Strength and Science Seahorse
- added Black Rose / Green Sun to the reference list of Orchid Horror (thanks, Low!)
bug fixes
- fixed artist pages and chronology links always ordering artworks by a track's release date rather than accounting for later art additions (e.g. anthology projects for Homestuck Vol. 5, AlterniaBound, Beyond Canon)
data changes
- per guidance from the artist, removed listen links from Perfectly Generic Album and Perfectly Generic Object, which are now going offline-only
data changes
- better quality cover art for Sburb, from its more recent independent release (thanks, FF!)
data changes
- added blood CW tag to Eternity Served Cold (thanks, leo!)
- added Sburban Jungle to reference list of Void Session (thanks, Niklink!)
- Wiki Finalization
(news entry: Wiki Finalization)
site changes
- adjusted phrasing on footer and homepage rows to better reflect the wiki in its essentially finalized state
data changes
- added art tags across Moons of Theseus (thanks, Low!)
- fixed various typos throughout Cosmic Caretakers (thanks, megatti!)
- added Dungeon Theme to reference list of (an ascii image of bowsette) (thanks, Makin!)
- updated description for INHOSPITABLE (thanks, nuclear333!)
- June Attuned
(news entry: June Attuned)
site changes
- updated CSS styling code to improve site layout on mobile devices
- album/track cover art now displays at full width on thin screens, placing main page content beneath (with wider text area)
- nav bar now displays as a single column of info rows on thin screens, rather than attempting to show track name and artist chronology links side-by-side
- general CSS fixes should help with layout bugs
album pages
- added fallback "Track list" track group when an album isn't divided into groups, ensuring the sidebar track list always defaults to collapsed
group pages
- added "from (group)" accent text on group info page next to albums which are part of more than one group
- made sections of group page sidebar collapsible/expandable (like album sidebar)
tag pages
- made cover arts sort by reverse chronological order, placing recent releases near the top
internal changes
- divided much of 6000-line site generation file
upd8.js
into a number of smaller, better-organized files - separated each page generation function into its own module, reducing redundant maintenance, supporting future uses of these modules, and making the codebase a lot easier to navigate and build upon
- begun work on experimental "Thing" class-based (OOP) objects, aiming for better interfacing with objects and to support neat extensible ways of working with objects, data loading, and page generation in the future
data changes
- added new Beyond group, and moved many groups previously categorized under Fandom here
- more general group for musical expanse beyond Homestuck official and fandom discographies
- reference and data fixes, courtesy of Niklink:
- new track Flowey's Laugh, referenced by The Lordling, Your Best Nightmare, and A Very Trickster Mode Christmas (With Fancy Santas)
- Nic Cage Romance references How Do I Live
- Kazoostuck references Homestuck
- A Very Trickster Mode Christmas references The One Horse Open Sleigh
- added wallpaper art to Someday
- Pony Chorale now credits Tavia Morra for vocals (thanks, GiovanH!)
- Scientist IDs Bodies Of Migrants, Helping Families Find Closure has updated name and listen link (thanks, nuclear333!)
- tMEWIARBu next-day patch
site changes
- made the primary color of a page "bleed" into its backdrop area, subtly tinting pages across the site
- removed the
backdrop-filter
CSS effect, which previously would the wallpaper behind the page container to create a "glossy glass" effect, but isn't suported consistently across browsers yet
data changes
- grouped the tracks in Diverging Delicacies according to the corresponding portion of the homestuck epilogues (thanks, Niklink and FF!)
- added a Color tag to The Baby is You, so links to it don't just inherit the color of the containing page (e.g. track reference in The Bad Time Is You previously looking green; thanks, Low!)
- added soundcloud links for Star I Never Caught, Someday, and Harrigan (thanks, FF!)
- data fixes/tweaks throughout entertaining sound:
- 2016 but all the best memes happen at the same time references Goodbye To The Underground (not Good Night) and Stone halation (not Snow halation)
- oh, 2017? references WOAH!
- added Sweet Victory as the track referenced (i.e. featured) in what year is it
- added bandcamp links to all referenced SilvaGunner tracks
- ty nata for reference fixes and leo for bandcamp links!
- the my ex-wife is a real bitch update
(news entry: the my ex-wife is a real bitch update)
site changes
- a whole variety of updates and improvements to album sidebars:
- got rid of the right-hand sidebar, as it was taking up considerable horizontal space; with the new free space, album and track art is featured at a much larger size, as originally intended (same for lyrics, commentary, etc!)
- moved the group boxes that were on the right into the left-sidebar, above the track list on album pages and in a newly compressed view beneath the track list on track pages
- made the track group headings collapsible/openable ("accordion" layout using
<details>
elements), so any track can easily be visited from any other track in the same album - made track groups default to all collapsed on the album page, since a view of all the track groups in full is visible in the main content area (as before), and the collapsed overview makes it easier to quickly jump to tracks in any section
- much thanks to Niklink, for the general proposal of making more room for album art as well as miscellaneous feedback, and megatti, for suggesting the combined group view on track pages!
- banner dimensions are now specified in album data files and included as part of HTML, keeping the layout on album pages with banners from flickering or shifting on slower connections
- a bunch more internal changes:
- began breaking the colossal single source file for the entire site build process into a number of more focused modules, making the codebase as a whole easier to work with; more work to be done here in the future
- rewrote the entire inline parser and transformer for all text content on the site, using a new manual parsing method (rather than pure regexes) which supports nested tags but is still just as performant operating on huge amounts of data
- this will basically enable support for more complex templating down the line, as well as accessing localization strings inside of content areas (like static pages, album commentary, artist contributions, and more)
- JSON data files are now generated for albums and artists as well, although these aren't used anywhere on the site yet, and the data format is subject to change with more brainstorming
albums
- the new Psycholonials full album release, as well as the new EPs leading up to it: Psycholonials EP 8 and Psycholonials EP 9
- since-unlisted albums from Clark Powell, as the original releases for music from Psycholonials:
- also, entertaining sound by jan Misali
data changes
- added artist commentary for Alternia, transcribed from album-release commentary booklet
- fixed commentary not showing up at all in MeGaDanceVaNia
- banner refinements and updates from Niklink across many albums:
- better upscale: Homestuck Vol. 5, Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent, Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion, Homestuck Vol. 8, Homestuck Vol. 9, Symphony Impossible to Play, One Year Older, Genesis Frog, Cherubim, Tomb of the Ancestors, SBURB OST, Land of Fans and Music 2, Land of Fans and Music 3, Beforus, Weird Puzzle Tunes, Ancestral, Land of Fans and Music 4, Xenoplanetarium, Moons of Theseus
- extend background horizontally: Gristmas Carols, Cosmic Caretakers, Diverging Delicacies, FriendSymphony, Shortcuts, P[S]
- reconstruct: AlterniaBound, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, Psycholonials (and EPs)
- draw more background: Land of Fans and Music, Jailbreak Vol. 1, Ancestral
- font reconstruction: Homestuck Vol. 5, Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent
- art tag fixes from LowDeath675 in a whole host of albums:
- Alternia (Walls Covered in Blood)
- Ancestral (Signless Protection Squad)
- Beyond Canon (crystal hung in firmament's descent)
- coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A (Jade Sylph, Violet Prince, Nine Lives One Love)
- coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B (Cyan Beast, Battle Brotocol, Rustless Fall)
- Genesis Frog (album art, Our Glorious Speaker, Prospitian Folklore, Consorts' Intermezzo, Frogs' Intermezzo)
- Homestuck Vol. 5 (album art, Clockwork Melody, Octoroon Rangoon, How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version), Ectobiology, Homestuck)
- Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion (Terezi Owns, Trial and Execution, Play The Wind)
- Homestuck Vol. 8 (Terraform, Arcade Thunder)
- Homestuck Vol. 9 (Anbroids V2.0, Trepidation, Despot, Negative Aperture, Stargaze)
- Land of Fans and Music 2 (Embittered Shore, Ugly Story)
- Land of Fans and Music 3 (Medium, Courtroom Shuffle, RetroBution (ohgodwhy Remix), Insomniac)
- Land of Fans and Music 4 (Scales, Altitude, Aura of Colour, Thyme on My Fries, Collision Course (Davepeta's Movement), Skaian Rebirth)
- Prospit & Derse (Darkened Streets)
- Rust Apocalypse (album art)
- The Wanderers (Ruins Rising)
- 『H☯MESTUCK VAP☯RWAVE 2016 RUH-RUH-RUH-REMIX』アンドレア・ヒューシー・グーグル翻訳 (album art)
- plus, reference fixes in Beforus, Forest Fire, Daywalker ~Rise~, Upward Meowvement (Davepetasprite^2 Owns), and Requited (Dirtiest Remix)...
- as well as typo fixes in The Land of Wind and Shade, Vigilante ~ Cornered, Atomik Meltdown, Starkind, Vigilante, The Drawing of the Four, Reconciled, Emerald Cinders, Prospitian Monody, Ultimate Alchemy, Exsanguinated, Premortem, and Revisit/Rewind commentary too!
- art tag fixes from foreverFlummoxed as well:
- Beforus (♫ Disc 2 ♫, Time's Apostate, Antevo+rta, With the Fishes, Timeout, Voided, The Light Forms Us, Motions of Infinity)
- typo fixes in Funeral March of the Avenging Dead commentary too!
- plus art tags for Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido
- added Say "I Gotta Believe!" to reference list for GameBro (Original 1990 Mix)
- credits to niklink for noticing makin for noticing someone else noticing this
- added Showtime (Original Mix) and The Beginning of Something Really Excellent to reference list for Confrontation (thanks, Mixolydian!)
- album links on tag pages fix
bug fixes
- fixed links to album cover art featuring characters on tag pages being broken (thanks, Megatti!)
- solo albums aplenty
(news entry: Solo Albums Aplenty)
site changes
- added per-album banners, as a compliment to wallpapers (from February)
- currently only show up on album index pages, not track pages, since they can push the content pretty far down
- thanks to Niklink for helping archive and double-check these!
- made background for the content area a glossy, rather than solid, gray; particularly notable on albums with custom wallpapers
- removed Psycholonials row from homepage and replaced New Releases with New Additions, a new type of row showing a diverse selection of the latest albums to be added to the wiki
- added data files for tracks, accessible at
/data/track/<directory>/data.json
("directory" means the name of the track as it shows up in permalink URLs, e.g.bl1nd-just1c3-1nv3st1g4t1on
)- will be extended to albums, artists, etc soon!
- can be accessed from external programs via HTTP request
- will probably also exist as a complete package download for offline use, though this hasn't been done yet
- internal changes as foundations for future updates
- tweaks and improvements to the CLI site build tool
- made the URL/path system generally less complex (and accidentally spent way too long on this!)
- more translation additions and brainstorming for how to work them into more of the site
- implemented the basic design and functionality for info (hover) cards, which are functional but not quite complete and will show up in a release soon
- you can try them out by setting
localStorage.tryInfoCards = true
in your browser console! - only implemented for tracks so far; make use of the data files described above
- you can try them out by setting
albums
- another lovely selection of albums, all from solo artists, summarized below
- from Cristata:
- from Funk McLovin:
- from nuclear333:
- from what is lost in the mines?:
- also, new albums from Psycholonials:
album pages
- added banners to album index pages, as mentioned and listed in site changes and data changes sections, respectively
- added new line showing the date the album was added to the wiki near the end of the page (below track listing and above artist commentary)
artist pages
- added an info line showing which groups an artist has contributed tracks and art under
data changes
- added wallpapers for Act 7, P[S], Shortcuts, Tomb of the Ancestors, DELTARUNE Chapter 1 OST, and UNDERTALE Soundtrack
- added banners for AlterniaBound, Cherubim, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, Genesis Frog, Homestuck Vol. 5, Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent, Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion, Homestuck Vol. 8, Homestuck Vol. 9, One Year Older, Squiddles!, Symphony Impossible to Play, The Wanderers, Ancestral, Beforus, Cosmic Caretakers, Diverging Delicacies, FriendSymphony, Gristmas Carols, Jailbreak Vol. 1, Labyrinth's Heart, Land of Fans and Music, Land of Fans and Music 2, Land of Fans and Music 3, Land of Fans and Music 4, Moons of Theseus, Oceanfalls Vol. 1, P[S], SBURB OST, Shortcuts, Tomb of the Ancestors, Weird Puzzle Tunes, Xenoplanetarium, and all Psycholonials albums
- updated description of INHOSPITABLE group, courtesy of nuclear333's input
- fixes for Unreleased Tracks, courtesy of foreverFlummoxed:
- added missing durations for Archagent Everlasting, Boy Skylark, Calming Quartz (Beta), Chalk Emerald, Isle Unto Thyself, It's Your Move, and The Witch
- added artist links for Tally Hall and VVVVVV
- fixes for miscellaneous data, courtesy of Niklink:
- added full lists of featured tracks to Psycholonials flashes (instead of just the tracks corresponding to each chapter's album)
- fixed Your Universe being credited to "Marcus Citrine" rather than Marcus Carline (who also wrote The Leaving from Beyond Canon!)
- credited cover and wallpaper art for Hiveswap Act 1 OST and cover art for Hiveswap Act 2 OST to Mallory Dyer
- credited wallpaper art for Hiveswap Friendsim to Danny Cragg, for The Felt to Molly Gur, and for The Wanderers to Lauren Ross
- (all artworks above were previously credited to the catch-all Homestuck)
bug fixes
- fixed artist pages no longer sorting tracks according to their original release date (e.g. on nuclear333, tracks from [INHOSPITABLE DELISTED] were being sorted according to the album rerelease in 2021, rather than the original track releases in 2017)
- fixed sidebar of Unreleased Tracks all being one color, instead of applying distinguishing colors for each track group (thanks, foreverFlummoxed!)
- fixed a few dates at the end of the changelog being formatted inconsistently with the rest of the wiki
- "random" link fixes
bug fixes
- fixed "random" links (e.g. on album pages and Random Pages listing) redirecting to "undefined" URLs instead of the appropriate type directory (track, group, etc)
- translation & renovation
(news entry: Translation & Renovation)
site changes
- translation/localization support:
- nearly all static text on the wiki has been replaced with strings specified in a plain JSON file
- default language for a wiki is generated at the root directory (/) as usual; new languages are in subdirectory (e.g. "/jp/album/diverging-delicacies")
- no languages are newly supported yet, but the localization system is totally tested; see the news entry for details on contributing translations!
- thumbnail support:
- small images (250x250) are used in grids (on homepage, album/artist galleries, etc)
- medium images (400x400) are used on pages with larger cover art (individual track/album pages, etc)
- full-size images (usually 600x600-1200x1200, pulled from public bandcamp listings) are no longer embedded at all, but can still be viewed by clicking on cover arts to zoom in
- previously, every image on the site was full-size! this was particularly terrible for people with slow connections or limited bandwidths
- example stats: download size of scrolling entire homepage reduced from 3.8mb to 0.6mb
- internal renovation across build file:
- (before, after)
- url system restructured:
- link-related bugs are much harder to run into
- link references in content (e.g. "\[[album:foo-bar]]") are modularized and can more easily link to anywhere across the wiki
- codebase forks can easily adjust url specification to move parts of the site to different paths (though this isn't yet possible via data file)
- site build time is significantly reduced (since there are far fewer redundant calls to path.relative)
- page write functions restructured
- data required during a page write is gathered once, and then reused across all languages that page is built in, significantly reducing build time across multiple languages
- writePage itself is broken into a few different chunks, which can be referenced individually when needed
- changes tie nicely into url system restructure as well
- shared data variables and functions organized and tidied for simpler access across code
- miscellaneous arguments and specifications across code have been restructured to prefer explicit description before unnecessarily compact formats
- this has the side-effect of making a fair amount of the build logic simpler!
- significantly expanded data validation which happens before any site pages are written
albums
- besides additions for Psycholonials, no new music shared on the wiki this month, as translation and renovation changes took an especially long time to design and implement
artist pages
- added total duration of music contributed to an album next ot the album date
- display "cover art" and "wallpaper art" lines at the top of an album art contribution list, rather than at the bottom (this had been an accidental code error)
- display flash/game date range next to the "act" (or flash group label), rather than showing every date next to each flash, to make this section much visually cleaner
- removed "Featured in" links, since these were taking up a lot of visual space
- this has been added to Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Album) instead
commentary pages
- cleaned commentary index layout and strings (e.g. before: "19/20 entries; 8.4k words", after: "8.4k words across 19 entries")
track pages
- reference list is only divided into "fandom" and "official" if a group with directory "official" is present in the first place
- this is essentially hard-coded, but is a quick and simple fix for all references on wikis without the concept displaying as "fandom" references
listings
- generally tweaked strings to be more consistent across listings and the site
- added gallery link to Groups - by Name and Groups - by Category listings
- added flash links to Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Album)
- added album links to Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Flash)
- added number of uses to Tags - by Name
- implemented Random Pages as an actual listing via the same system as all others
- this is just generally better practice
- it also fixes the Random Pages link not being bold when selected though!
data changes
- dozens of internal changes using new link syntax, as well as other internal fixes without user-visible changes
- contributor list changes for consistency across wiki and to remove redundant credit info:
- Showtime (Piano Refrain):
- credit Kevin Regamey only as artist, not contributor
- remove Malcolm Brown, originally included for composing Showtime (Original Mix)
- Aggrieve (Violin Refrain):
- credit Andrew Huo only as artist, not contributor
- credit Gabe Nezovic only as contributor, not artist
- Sburban Countdown:
- credit Mark Hadley only as artist, not contributor
- remove Michael Guy Bowman, originally included for composing Sburban Jungle
- Showtime (Imp Strife Mix):
- credit Buzinkai and Curt Blakeslee only as artists, not contributors
- remove Malcolm Brown, originally included for composing Showtime (Original Mix)
- Requiem for an Exile: remove James Dever, originaly included for composing Requiem
- Spider8ite!!!!!!!!: credit Kalibration for composition as well as choir
- Stress:
- Solar Voyage: credit Marcy Nabors for composition as well as arrangement and vocals (and move to top of list)
- Renewed Return: credit Marcy Nabors for composition as well as bass clarinet (and move to top of list)
- You're A Mean One, Mr. Slick: credit WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES for composition as well as lyrics (and move to top of list)
- Violet and Gold: credit Veritas Unae for composition as well as lyrics (and move to top of list)
- Showtime (Piano Refrain):
- typo fixes, thanks to Megatti:
- renamed Ecstasy (used to be "Ecstacy")
- renamed Till The Last Breath (used to be "Til The Last Breath")
- renamed Aqueous Armagourddon (used to be "Aqueous Armagourdden")
- renamed 50M3 GR347 4C7 0F H3R015M (used to be "5OM3 ...")
- renamed Wisest Wizord (used to be "Wizest Wizord")
- renamed Revisit/Rewind (used to have spaces around slash)
- fixed typo in lyrics for CR1M1N4L, CR1M1N4L (used to be "Hey, crinimal scum, ...")
- added art tags to The Golden Towers and Prospit Dreamers, thanks to LowDeath675!
- fixed duplicate commentary entries in Doctor and Endless Climb
- removed some old commentary from Sports. RIP
- clarified wallpaper contributions that said "edits" (e.g. Homestuck Vol. 5) to say "edits for wiki"
- album and flash data additions for Psycholonials over the course of the month
- retrace, retexture
(news entry: Retrace, Retexture)
site changes
- added per-album wallpapers
- many albums have these, e.g. Homestuck Vol. 5; check "data changes" section for full list
- archive and restore the original presentation of album releases while still keeping a unified design across the whole wiki
- much thanks to Niklink for help collecting and editing these, as well as originally suggesting this feature in December; as well as to the rest of the Discord community for suggestions and feedback!
- added per-album commentary pages
- no-distraction, complete collections of all commentary for each album, divided by track
- based upon and replaces the old "All Commentary" listing, which was always too long for its own good
- e.g. Genesis Frog, Land of Fans and Music 4
- added distinct news entry pages
- much like "All Commentary", a solitary news page would quickly become unwieldy for most browsers!
- news index now shows headings and short passages instead
- added footer to all pages of the site
- contains feedback and donate links for now; this is totally customizable (see below!)
- added Psycholonials row to homepage
- will be updated as new chapters are released, in independent updates from the main coming March/April releases
- no information for tracks currently unreleased, but we'll revisit this when all chapters and the full soundtrack have been released
- many, many internal changes
- almost all content across the wiki is now totally dynamic; e.g, wiki name and color scheme are stored in a data file
- static pages like Changelog and Donate are no longer hard-coded and can be added or removed without editing the wiki code
- homepage rows can also be customized; while there's only one type of row available currently (albums from list or group and optionally action links), the foundations are there to add more in the future
- most site features, e.g. Flashes & Games, Listings, and News, can now be selectively enabled and disabled
- a variety of changes to the internal text transformer, making longform text in data files (e.g. commentary, lyrics, static pages) much easier to read and write
- code and data repositories have been separated (media as well, but it's not pushed online anywhere yet); CLI tool for actually building the site has been updated accordingly
- all these changes are in service of making running your own wiki off the same codebase accessible and powerful; there's still much to be done before it's totally ready, though
albums
- added another set of new albums, summarized below
- from Michael Guy Bowman:
- from Desynced:
- from Psycholonials:
- added a new group, Homestuck Gaiden, and moved albums there from Unofficial MSPA Fans
listings
- as detailed in "site change" section, removed the "All Commentary" listing, replacing it with individual per-album commentary pages
- there is a new and refined Commentary index though!
data changes
- added wallpapers to many albums:
- official: Homestuck Vol. 5, Alternia, Squiddles!, The Felt, Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent, AlterniaBound, Medium, Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion, The Wanderers, Homestuck Vol. 8, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, Homestuck Vol. 9, Symphony Impossible to Play, One Year Older, Genesis Frog, [S] Collide., Hiveswap Act 1 OST, Hiveswap Friendsim, Hiveswap Act 2 OST
- fandom: Archive, Land of Fans and Music 4, Gristmas Carols, Cosmic Caretakers, Look On My Works Ye Mighty And Despair, Moons of Theseus, FriendSymphony
- went through all existing warnings for misspelled tracks and fixed 'em:
- ♍ - Let Me Dance, Let Me Glisten now featured in The Light Forms Us
- Giorgio by Moroder now featured in The Dave Strider Experience
- What is a Juggalo? now featured in The Dave Strider Experience
- Verdancy (Bassline) now featured in Jade English - Study for Eclectic Bass, 1984.1
- Virgin Orb now featured in Recordare, Virgo Mater
- Dissension (Original) now featured in The Puppet Master
- Nova Solis now featured in Singularity
- Showtime (Original Mix) now featured in Skaian Dreams (Remix)
- Skies of Skaia now featured in Skaian Dreams (Remix)
- Softbit (Original GFD Please Shut the Fuckass Mix By Request Demo Version) now featured in Softbit
- Outer Reaches [Veil] now featured in Emissary of Dance
- Layers Upon Layers [Build] now featured in Emissary of Dance
- CumuloSeerus [Oracle Clouds] now featured in Emissary of Dance
- On Golden Dreams [Prospit] now featured in Emissary of Dance
- Metamorphic Choices [Kernel Prototyping] now featured in Horizontal Headshot
- Gods of the New World [Universe Creation] now featured in Dance of the Dead
- ♊ - The Mituna Method now featured in The Gemoni Mustard Blood
- Upward Movement (Dave Owns) now featured in Collision Course (Davepeta's Movement)
- Frost now featured in A Farewell to Arms
- Dissension (Original) now featured in A Farewell to Arms
- Beatdown (Strider Style) now featured in A Farewell to Arms
- Lulling Lutescent [Prospit Sleep] now featured in On Golden Dreams [Prospit]
- did the same for altogether missing tracks, too:
- Brobot Scrimmage now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Character Theme for Dirk Strider now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Chucklevoodoo Waltz now featured in Phantasmagoria
- CONTACT now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Contra now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE now featured in The Light's Rebellion
- [S] Dirk: Unite Synchronization (WITH LYRICS) now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Distortion Navigator now featured in |||Optic Duelist|||
- Fate of the Heir now featured in |||Optic Duelist|||
- Four Kids and a Game They Play Together now featured in Four Kids (and a Game They Played Together)
- Good Morning, Dirk now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Heart Beat now featured in Constituent Hearts
- I Am An Island now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Intro now featured in -Omega- Timeline
- Intro now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Isn't This "Is This the End?" Again? now featured in Is This the End?
- Lord Spanish now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Midnight Suffer now featured in Midnight
- Muse of Nanchos now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Moshi Moshi? now featured in While the Iron's Hot
- Moshi Moshi? now featured in Horizontal Headshot
- Moshi Moshi? now featured in One and a Half Midnight
- Moshi Moshi? now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Rematch now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Sburban Resolution now featured in Horizontal Headshot
- Shut Me Down now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Stay in Touch now featured in Horizontal Headshot
- Smackdown now featured in Thyme on My Fries
- Synchronize now featured in Constituent Hearts
- The Engineer now featured in Constituent Hearts
- Tick now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Unintentional Touhou now featured in Revisit/Rewind
- Celestial Fantasia now featured in Raise of the Conductor's Baton
- Thunderhead now featured in Infinity's Lament
- we will thankfully never have to do either of the above again
- added and updated lyrics for a bunch of tracks from Homestuck Gaiden, courtesy as ever of Niklink:
- from Homestuck for the Holidays: Time for a Story, The More You Know, The Squiddles Save Christmas, Billy the Bellsuit Diver Has Something to Say, Squiddly Night, The Santa Claus Interdimensional Travel Sleigh, Candlelight, Oh, No! It's the Midnight Crew!, Hella Sweet, Shit, Let's Be Santa, Choo Choo, Oh God, Christmas!, A Very Special Time
- from Jailbreak Vol. 1: Drillgorg, Retrobution, A Common Occurrance (Every Night, To Be Exact)
- from Land of Fans and Music: SadoMasoPedoRoboNecroBestiality, Nakkadile, Jack and Black Queen, SWEET BRO AND HELLA JEFF SHOW
- from Tomb of the Ancestors: ETERNAL SUFFERING, Spider8ite!!!!!!!!
- updated a bunch of references in UNDERTALE Soundtrack and DELTARUNE Chapter 1 OST, courtesy of foreverFlummoxed:
- Snowy now featured in Snowdin Town
- CORE now featured in Death by Glamour (and It's Showtime! moved to end of reference list)
- Undertale now featured in The Choice (slowed down 666%)
- Undertale now featured in Hopes and Dreams
- Hopes and Dreams now featured in SAVE the World
- Hopes and Dreams now featured in Final Power
- Start Menu now featured in Menu (Full)
- SAVE the World now featured in Last Goodbye
- Once Upon a Time now featured in Beginning (instead of featuring Beginning, which was a typo)
- Nightmare Knight now featured in The Door
- One Fateful Night now featured in Weird Birds
- ANOTHER HIM now featured in Darkness Falls
- Determination now featured in THE HOLY
- added lyrics to CAREFREE VICTORY (REMIX), courtesy of foreverFlummoxed and nata
- added missing bonus tracks to Jailbreak Vol. 1
- added Namco High and its tracks as part of Unreleased Tracks
- moved A Baby Legend - The Baby is 2 to Unreleased Tracks, since it's not actually part of the original The Baby is You release
- added A History of Babies to the reference list of A Baby Legend - The Baby is 2
- added English to the reference list of The Puppetmaster
- added Flare (Cascade) and Savior of the Dreaming Dead (Cascade Cut) to the reference list of Cascade
- added art content warnings for Black, Blackest Heart, Clockwork Reversal, Trails, Temporal Piano, Time Paradox, English
- credited original track art of Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! to Lexxy instead of Homestuck
- credited original track art of The Blind Prophet to Hanni Brosh instead of Homestuck
- changed the youtube playlist link for Jailbreak Vol. 1
- fixed description of The Genesis Project missing correctly formatted split
- removed bandcamp links for Labyrinth's Heart
- removed wikipedia links across the site, replacing with youtube video links where relevant
- updated flash credits for [S] ACT 7 and [S] ==>
bug fixes
- fixed certain tracks showing up twice in artist track lists
- traversing fandom
(news entry: Traversing Fandom)
site changes
- added wallpaper and refined site layout
- the current wallpaper is pulled from More from Homestuck and might be changed or expanded upon in future updates
- a margin has been applied to the whole site layout, centering content to better visually balance it
- "skip to content" and "skip to sidebar" buttons have been added, and show up when navigating using the tab key
- tweaked the homepage with updated links, e.g. to new Discord and Donate pages, and updated wording across existing info pages
albums
- added a wide variety of new albums, summarized below
- from Unofficial MSPA Fans:
- from Oceanfalls:
- from Tee-vee:
- from Toby Fox:
- from nuclear333:
groups
- new feature! groups are collections of fan albums, organized under a dedicated page for an external group or project.
- groups exist in three categories: HSMusic, Fan-musician groups, and Projects beyond Homestuck
- HSMusic: overall structure for the wiki, containing Official and Fandom, into which nearly all albums are categorized
- Fan-musician groups: collaborative groups of fan-musicians releasing music under a single name, e.g. Casual Sunday and Unofficial MSPA Fans
- Projects beyond Homestuck: groups centered around a particular work, usually inspired by Homestuck, e.g. UNDERTALE & DELTARUNE and Oceanfalls
- groups each have two "tabs" or views: Info and Gallery
- Info: this displays the full description for a group, and then a chronological list of albums (and their years of release)
- Gallery: replacing the previously dedicated pages for official and fandom albums, this displays a list of albums organized with their latest first, and has a short info line summarizing stats about the group
- miniature group "infoboxes" are displayed on the right side of album and track pages
- this design (alongside much of this update's layout changes) is inspired by the site layout of Bandcamp
- contains a short catchline introducing the group, links to visit the external homes of the group (e.g. its own Bandcamp or project links), and chronology links to navigate the previous and next albums within the group
- displayed at the bottom of the page in compact layout (e.g. when on a mobile device)
artist pages
- every artist who has contributed track or album cover art, e.g. Elanor Pam, now has a gallery page; these are much the same as tag gallery pages but for artists
track pages
- YouTube links for individual tracks no longer attach their playlist, because this was deemed Mostly Just Impractical in discussion
listings
- added six new listings, for the new groups feature:
- adjusted the order of existing listings, to make them hopefully a little easier to navigate
- renamed the "Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by First Feature)" listing to "... (by Flash)" and considerably restructured it, effectively making it into a compact summary of the Flashes & Games portion of the site
data changes
- removed ?list parts from all track links
- added new album and group data (see respective above changelog sections)
- miscellaneous changes to Unreleased Tracks (thanks for PQ and Hiveswap changes go to foreverFlummoxed, Niklink, and nuclear333!)
- added new tracks 01 through 16, Flute Performance, Miracles, and Goat Foley, and moved existing tracks Captain Planet and the Planeteers End Title, Ghostbusters, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, and Hero's Growth, to the Tracks featured in Homestuck section
- added new tracks Friendvangelion Rebuild, it's a cover of 'made of time', and IT'S NOTHING to the Tracks featured in Pesterquest section
- added it's a cover of 'made of time' to the reference list of yeah, it is
- moved Seer of Same-Color Scalemate Combos from Other tracks originating outside of Homestuck to Other Homestuck tracks
- renamed "DRONE_PQ" to the drone rhythmic motif which can be found in act 1 and act 2 and gave it track art from nuclear333's PESTERQUEST OST collection
- renamed "THIS TIME ITS ERIDAN (I FORGOT WHAT I NAMED THIS)" to Busker's Theme mk II and added commentary from James Roach's tumblr
- removed a bunch of tracks that were moved into UNDERTALE Soundtrack
- miscellaneous changes to data for Flashes & Games
- added new "flash" page Vriska: What's his deal????????, featuring How Do I Live
- added new "flash" page Dave: Answer Gamzee, featuring Miracles
- added 2chords to Skip to The Trolls, Dragons and Dairy, Blood and Binary, Wow Pesterquest Your Mom Lets You Have Two Fish ?, The Call Of Leadership, Thats right ADVENTURE!!!!, Friendship Wozard, and Just Go Ahead Now
- added it's a cover of 'made of time', IT'S NOTHING, and END OF FRIENDVANGELION to Team Charge
- replaced Sburban Jungle with Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix) in [S] ==>
- replaced "pseudo-tracks" with actual, credited tracks in [S] ==>, [S] Jade: Play a silly flute refrain, [S] Equius: Seek the highb100d, and [S] ACT 6
- replaced the individual component tracks with Cascade in [S] Cascade.
- removed "Loading..." easter egg from [S][A6I3] ==>, but not before archiving it for you, personally
- interweaved tracks in Hiveswap Act 2 according to their position in the game (thanks, FF!)
- added Austin, Atlantis to the reference list of THE RAREST. AND MOST INTERPRETIVE. DANCE MEATCABRE.
- added Limelight, 暗闇の中の光, and Glide to the reference list of Come
- added Cross Examination to the reference list of Ticket to Ride: Down with the Clown
- added Ticket to Ride: Rusty to the reference list of SERVICE CAR (reflecting it already being in the re-release track Shell Game)
- added Amen, Brother and Your Best Nightmare to the reference list of Galactic Princess Selene Opening 1
- added link to the Vol. 5 Anthology Presentation to commentary of Homestuck Vol. 5
- added art tags for the cover of Hiveswap Friendsim
- added blood content warning for the cover of Game Over
- attributed cover of Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent to Andrew Hussie rather than Homestuck
- updated the playlist link for Hiveswap Friendsim to better reflect its official track listing, and added youtube links to yall know i just do the music right and later tracks
- updated the link for Problem Sleuth Theme, since the original upload went offline (thanks to the uploader for messaging me about this!)
- fixed the lyrics of Ascend mistakenly showing up in Starfall instead
- miscellaneous artist name fixes
- added Shrek
- launch of hsmusic.wiki
(news entry: Launch of HSMusic.wiki!)
site changes
- redesigned the homepage from the ground up to be a better landing page for the wiki!
- three groupings for the wiki index: New Releases, Fandom, Official, showing just a few so it's easy to navigate, with new buttons to view a complete grid listing
- moved the "Explore the site!" links over to the newly wiki-wide header, placing albums front and center while leaving navigation links readily accessible
- added a sidebar to the homepage, listing recent news entries parallel with albums
- improved navigation all around the site, making the wiki as a whole more consistent
- added lazy loading for images, so landing pages shouldn't take up nearly as much data, and will load quicker (especially noticeable for the Flashes & Games index!)
- adjusted the styling for grouped listings (previously used only for Unreleased Tracks) as they become more common (see data changes section)
- made links which require JavaScript only show up if JS is actually enabled
tags
- new feature! tags are used for two things: categorizing track art by character, and displaying content warnings.
- added a tag list beneath most track and album arts describing characters in the image and linking to their gallery pages
- added tag gallery pages under the Listings section, showing a grid of all the track and album covers which are tagged with that character
- added content warnings for common triggers (alcohol, body horror, etc), blurring out the image and showing warning tags until it is clicked and revealed
listings
- some extra wiki-wide stats are displayed on the Listings index!
- divided the Artists - by Contributions and Artists - by Latest Contribution listings into two columns for easier exploring: "Track Contributors" and "Track & Flash Contributors"
- added two new listings, for the new tags feature:
track pages
- made the index of the current track show next to the track name in the navbar
- made the start and end indexes of each group show next to group names in the sidebar
- divided the sidebar into groups for a bunch of albums (see data changes section)
bug fixes
- fixed a bug where chronology links (e.g "413th track by Toby Fox") for track artists weren't being displayed anymore
- fixed a bug where artists with zero contributions (e.g. only commentary) would display as "( c.)" instead of "(0 c.)" in artist listings
- fixed a bug where flash names would always have the dot at the end of the name removed, instead of only when punctuation follows
- fixed some bugs with release date code where the Artists - by Latest listing would not count unique dates of cover art contributions (e.g. in anthology projects where fanart is added after the release of the album), and where the cover art release date displayed on album pages was ambiguous (previously it displayed the date of track art for the whole album; now it displays - or, if it is the same as album release, does not display - the date of cover art for the album itself)
- fixed a bug on artist pages where tracks that are featured in more than one flash would display flashes past the first feature as "1", "2", "3", etc, instead of the actual flash names
- fixed a bug on artist pages where co-artists of tracks (but not track art) weren't being displayed anymore
- fixed a bug where the random official album link in the Random Pages listing would instead open a random track across the whole site
- made all the links on the Random Pages listing behave more like regular links (ctrl-click works for example)
data changes
- five new albums archived: Hiveswap Act 2 OST, Homestuck for the Holidays, Tomb of the Ancestors, The Genesis Project: Volume 1, Oceanfalls Vol. 3; plus the track Perfectly Generic Object
- grouped tracks in a bunch of releases: Alternia, Squiddles!, Strife!, AlterniaBound, Homestuck Vol. 7: At the Price of Oblivion, The Wanderers, Homestuck Vol. 1-4, Homestuck Vol. 8, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A, coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B, Homestuck Vol. 9, One Year Older, Genesis Frog, SBURB OST, Land of Fans and Music 2, Land of Fans and Music 3, Beforus, Ancestral, Land of Fans and Music 4, and Hiveswap Act 1 OST
- a bunch of additions to coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A and various credited artists, working with help from nuclear333 and Bambosh:
- added bonus art by Astrom to Olive Rogue
- added lyrics to Iron Infidel and Bronze Page
- added commentary to Fuchsia Ruler and Gold Mage
- added some remastered/remixed released of tracks: Boy Skylark, Gold Mage [Playtime is Over Mix], Rags of Rust, Teal Wings and Scales, and Violet Sea Breeze
- fixed mis-double-crediting...
- Bleed Binary for the track art of Olive Scribe (it's actually by WP)
- Elisa McCabe for the track art of Emerald Terror (it's actually by HamsterParade)
- Tristan Scroggins for the track art of Phantasmic Youngsters (it's actually by Ari Hunt)
- updated the youtube link for Purple Tyrant to be the official upload
- a bunch of tweaks and reference fixes thanks to an emailer:
- added to reference lists...
- Crustacean and Sunsetter (to The Broken Clock)
- Showtime (Piano Refrain) (to Farewell)
- Sburban Jungle (to Waiting For Adventure [Loading Screen])
- Skaian Skuffle (to Skaian Shuffle)
- Terra (to Terraform)
- Hawkeye (to Davesprite)
- Jane's Dragon (to Jane Dargason)
- Before Before the Beginning (to Before the Beginning and After the End)
- I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (to I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Post-Punk Version) - this was a typo fix in the data)
- added Tavia Morra to Ocean Stars Falling's contributor list (per M.J.B's commentary)
- added more commentary for Eternity Served Cold
- fixed a typo in the commentary credits for Flare (With Vocals) (which left it missing on horizon's page)
- fixed some typos in the commentary for Thought and Flow and Minihoof's Adventure
- attributed Skaia Voyages to Seth Peelle instead of Clark Powell, per Vol. 10 listening stream
- added to reference lists...
- tweaked the Unreleased Tracks album layout once again!
- before:
- Tracks featured in Homestuck
- Unreleased Homestuck tracks
- Tracks featured in Pesterquest
- Tracks originating outside of Homestuck
- after:
- Tracks featured in Homestuck
- Tracks featured in Hiveswap Friendsim
- Tracks featured in Pesterquest
- Other Homestuck tracks
- Other tracks originating outside of Homestuck
- before:
- a bunch of tweaks and updates for lyrics, working with emailer Niklink: Dawn of Man, No Release, Fly, Lies With The Sea, Chain Of Prospit, Pumpkin Tide, Black, Octoroon Rangoon, How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version), Dupliblaze COMAGMA, mIrAcLeS, Squiddles!, Tentacles, Squiddles in Paradise, Catchyegrabber (Skipper Plumbthroat's Song), Plumbthroat Gives Chase, Squiddles the Movie Trailer - The Day the Unicorns Couldn't Play, Carefree Princess Berryboo, Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles, Let the Squiddles Sleep (End Theme), Friendship Aneurysm, GameBro (Original 1990 Mix), I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Gaia Queen, Nic Cage Song, Arisen Anew, Chaotic Strength, The Blind Prophet, Cobalt Thief, Your Universe, Temporal Shenanigans, Squiddle Song, Battle Brotocol, Busting Makes Me Feel Good, I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew (Post-Punk Version), Frustracean, Creata, You Killed My Father (Prepare To Die), Ascend, Renewed Return, Broom Temperature, Frondly Warning, exclusion zone, The Leaving, and Four Kids (and a Game They Played Together)
- added the unlisted bonus track it's good to see you again to One Year Older!
- added commentary flavor texts based on original bandcamp pages (also courtesy Niklink) to these albums: Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, The Wanderers, Prospit & Derse, Cherubim, and Hiveswap Friendsim
- added full commentary for Rise of the Denizens from Land of Fans and Music 2!
- added better resolution track art for Vagabounce Remix (leaving The Wanderers with complete high-resolution track art!)
- added I Don't Want to Miss a Thing to the feature list of [S] ==>
- added tracks from Hiveswap Act 1 OST and Hiveswap Act 2 OST to the new flash pages Hiveswap Act 1 and Hiveswap Act 2, which also include contributor credits (art, animation, etc)
- changed the color of the Hiveswap Friendsim album to match the Flashes & Games section for that game
- gave the Hiveswap Friendsim flash thumbnails a fresh coat of paint to match Pesterquest, and added unofficial track art for tracks featured in Pesterquest courtesy of nuclear333
- fixed the bandcamp link for Hiveswap Act 1 OST and added the missing bandcamp link for Homestuck Vol. 10
- fixed the missing track art for The Mechanism
- fixed a bunch more typos in commentary, particularly for albums One Year Older, Land of Fans and Music 2, and Homestuck Vol. 10
- fixed a typo which was keeping Toccata and Fugue in D minor from showing up in the reference list of Pipeorgankind
- fixed a typo which was keeping >tfw another james roach track from showing up in the feature list of Of Text and Envy, Green
- fixed typos which were messing up the durations of Elegy for a Thief (Dreamscape Remix) and I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
- removed a duplicate youtube link for SPLIT REALITY
- added credit links to these artists: Asiul, Dallas Ross Hicks, David DeCou, David Dycus, Dawn Davis, Digidigi66, dodostad, Elanor Pam, Erik Scheele, fenkko, First Turn Fold, Gabe Stilez, Hanni Brosh, Ian White, infiniteKnife, James Roach, J.N. Wiedle, Kevin Grant, Kitsu, Kurimja, Koukouvayia, Leslie Hung, Lynnai Hicks, Marcus Carline, Mark Hadley, Max Wright, Michael Guy Bowman, Molly Gur, Plumegeist, Rah-Bop, Seth Peelle, Shannon, Soju, Sukka, Tavia Morra, Temmie Chang, Tensei, The-Everlasting-Ash, Thomas Ferkol, ToastyGlow, Will Kommor, Willow Ascenzo, viaSatellite, Vivian Ng, Willow Ascenzo, Zilon, ZowerLemon
- added a bunch of new artist pages for those whose contributions are showing up on the wiki for the first time (e.g. several contributors to Hiveswap Act 1)
- autumnal polish haul
new features
- artist links will now have icons to jump directly to their personal websites most places they're linked
flash pages
- moved the "tracks featured in" section above the "contributors" section, since the contributor list gets quite long in some cases
- plus a variety of additions, see data changes section
data changes
- three new solo albums archived: Labyrinth's Heart, I Am Writing Myself A Dream In A Letter, Exceptis Excipiendis; plus the 2011 collaborative album Jailbreak Vol. 1
- added track art for Alternia and AlterniaBound, brought over from the Alternia/Bound track art anthology projects!
- added album links to the index pages for Shortcuts and P[S], since i forgot them last time (oops!)
- added bandcamp links to the rereleased album Prospit & Derse, plus remastered track art for Hallowed Halls!
- added thumbnail art for [S] Ride.
- added a bunch of pages for artists/contributors that were previously left linkless
- added new flash pages for [S][A6A6I5] ====> and [S???] ======> (sorry, [S??????] ==> isn't getting the same treatment! :P)
- added missing durations on Galaxy Hearts, Fighting Spirit, Joy And Dreams Eternal, Master of Puppets, and Bill Bolin's removed tracks (thanks, foreverFlummoxed!)
- added better resolution track art for Tomahawk Head
- copied flash art credits info from Homestuck's Art Credits page
- fixed Blood and Binary featuring Requiem (from Sburb) instead of Requiem (from Labyrinth's Heart)
- fixed [S] John: Sleep. and [S] John: Wake up. featuring "John Sleeps - Skaian Magicant" instead of John Sleeps / Skaian Magicant
- fixed contributor credits for Minihoof's Adventure to correctly attribute vocals to Tavia Morra (was crediting "Tavio Morra")
- fixed contributor credits for Renewed Return to correctly attribute percussion to Jamie Paige Stanley (was crediting "Jamie Paige Stanely")
- fixed contributor credits for ♏Spider's Eclipse♏ to consistently capitalize magnoliajades
- fixed missing track art credits on Meta Choices [Options]
- fixed loads of typos made while transcribing commentary booklets for AlterniaBound, Land of Fans and Music, and Homestuck Vol. 10, plus a few stray tracks throughout the rest of the discography (going to get to the rest of the albums too, but didn't have time before release!)
- renamed the track Lavender Lullaby [Derse Sleep] (it used to be spelled "Lullably")
- renamed the track ~~ADDITIONAL MAYHEM~~ (it used to be spelled "aditional")
- renamed the artist saffronScarf to Hanni Brosh and fixed their DeviantArt link
- renamed the artist Shad to Shad Andrews
- renamed the ambiguous artist "Kat" to Kato in The Obsidian Towers, and to Nyanface in Gilded Sands, Cumulating Dreams, Buy NAK Sell DOOF, Nakkadile, Planet in Shadow [Derse], and Paradoxical Meteor Shower [Reckoning]
- added artist links for Bea, Pride, Kato, and Shad Andrews (per credits in Prospit & Derse Bandcamp release)
- recompose, refine
new features
- two new albums archived, both from Casual Sunday (a group of the artists behind countless homestuck tracks): Shortcuts and P[S]
- added durations to every track, and rough total sums to album and artist pages
- added keybindings (shift+N, shift+P, shift+R) for common navigation (respectively next, previous, random) on track, album, and flash pages
- six new listings:
- restructured the Unreleased Tracks album to be broken into four reorganized sections
data changes
- added the track Friendship Aneurysm to the Squiddles! album
- added some unreleased tracks by artists from the music team: Arisen Anew (Remaster), Cascade (Director's Cut)
- added a bunch of commentary for Narrative Command
- added lyrics for GameBro (Original 1990 Mix), GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix), Remember Me When I Am Gone Away, Magical Hopalong Cassidy Station, and An Apple Disaster!!
- renamed the track John Sleeps / Skaian Magicant (it used to contain a dash)
- renamed the track The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (there used to be a typo)
- added links to youtube pages for tracks, not just albums
- added playlist links for [S] Collide. and Prospit & Derse
- added contribution credits to Buy NAK Sell DOOF
- tweaked the reference data for FIDUSPAWN, GO!, The Blind Prophet, Highland Thunder, Irrelevance Event Horizon, Hero's Growth, and The Brave and the Bronze to show more referenced tracks
- fixed the bandcamp link for Another Jungle (it was previously linking to Skaianet)
- fixed the commentary for Princess of Helium being attributed to Clark Powell instead of Tavia Morra
- fixed the commentary for Violet Mariner being attributed to... "Violet Mariner" instead of Willow Ascenzo
- fixed the commentary for Despot not showing up at all
- fixed the link formatting in One Year Older commentary, so that they are automatically color-coded
- fixed a typo in the commentary attribution for Another Chance
- fixed the flash [S][A6I3] ==> incorrectly referencing "G4M3BL0RG" instead of G4M38L0RG
- fixed the flash [S] WHEEEEEEEEEEE! incorrectly being named "[S] WHddddddEEEEE!" and referencing "A Very Trickster Mode Christmas (WHddddddEEEEE!)" instead of A Very Trickster Mode Christmas (WHEEEEEEEEEEE!)
- fixed the flash [S][A6A6I4] ====> incorrectly referencing Elevatorstuck and "with Meows" instead of Elevatorstuck, with Meows
- changed the playlist links for a few albums (to official or better organized playlists)
- changed existing youtube links to include the album playlist
- generally aimed to include links to as many official releases as possible, including making new playlists which include these and can be updated as more are found (feel free to drop a contact! much thanks to an emailer for helping out with this part of the update)
- changed the links of theese tracks to not be extended releases: 108 Stars of Density, Crab Waltz, Darling Dolorosa, Elevatorstuck, with Meows, G4M38L0RG, GameGlr, Hero's Growth, The Brave and the Bronze
- fixed the YouTube link for Trickster Mode (Blast Off) (it was linking to the video for Trickster Mode (Engage))
miscellaneous
- reworked the way pages are generated to fix random buttons not working
- changed the date format from "YYYY-MM-DD" (e.g. 2009-04-13) to "day, month name, year" (13 April 2009), as i meant to last update
- changed the "and more to be added soon" text at the bottom of the fandom album list to "and more to be added at your request", and linked it to the feedback page
- made track links on the changelog page color-coded
- made album links everywhere color-coded, too
- tweaked some margin styling so grouped lists should look better all around the site
later-in-day patch
- added two new flashes, both featuring Fear of the Heavens: [S][o] ==> and [S][A6A6I4] ====>
- added another "flash", this one (indirectly) featuring Problem Sleuth Theme: John: Examine games on CD rack.
- added Nic Cage Romance to the list of tracks featured in [S] Past Karkat: Wake up.
- moved those last two tracks (Problem Sleuth Theme, Nic Cage Romance) over to the "Tracks featured in Homestuck" section of Unreleased Tracks
- added a new track Onett Theme to the list of tracks referenced in Secret ROM
- hid Unreleased Tracks from the Albums - by Date and Tracks - by Date listings
- happy birthday karkat
homepage
- a new Changelog page! you are probably reading it now.
- two new albums: Rust Apocalypse by Willow Ascenzo, and the follow-up to Beforus, Ancestral!
flash pages
- flash pages now have links at which they can be listened, besides just on homestuck.com! most importantly: links to HD recordings, so they can be watched at good resolution on any device
track pages
- previously, all tracks required a URL to be added to the wiki; now, for tracks which don't have any links to be listened at online (but are still referenced by other tracks), they have been added alongside a message saying there aren't any listening links
- as such, another full pass through NSND has been completed, and many tracks which weren't present on the wiki before have been added to the newly reorganized Unreleased Tracks album!
listings
- the All Commentary listing page has been tweaked so that links in commentary will follow the color of the album the commentary is from
- the listing index shows its list in the main content area now too, for when the sidebar is collapsed (see below!)
miscellaneous
- a new navigation header added to every album, track, flash, and listing page, making the site considerably more usable on any device
- the header has links to the previous and next (or random) track/flash, and chronology links have been moved into the header too, so you don't need to scroll to the bottom of the page to access them
- on top of redoing the sidebar-header layout, changes to styling (collapsing the sidebar when the screen isn't very wide, for example) have made the site usable on mobile devices now!
- also, some changes to the way pages are generated, to make the site usable from hit command-line web browser Lynx
- track art for beyond canon
- thanks to the folx who contributed art to and organized the Beyond Canon Track Art Anthology, the Beyond Canon album now has track art!
- this anthology also came with a commentary booklet, and that (alongside the sketches contained!) has been transcribed into the wiki!
- albums, artists, and urls
homepage
- another four new fandom albums! SBURB OST, Beforus, Strife 2, Perfectly Generic Album
- the entire homepage has been restructured, placing official albums from the music team for Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon front and center, and generally adding flare to the rest of the page too
- a <meta> tag has been added to the homepage, so hsmusic's search result that comes up when you look up "homestuck music wiki" is a lot prettier
album pages
- links to listen to the full album have finally been added to album pages, including bandcamp as well as youtube links (both full album and playlist) wherever available
- chronology links now contain credits for cover artists, so they'll show up on album pages too
track pages
- chronology links for contributors to tracks as well as the main musicians! check out You Killed My Father (Prepare To Die) by team dogfight, for example
flash pages
- chronology links have been added to flash pages too!
artist pages
- artist pages - both musicians and cover artists - now have links to explore their work outside of homestuck
- many, many artists whose names are either typo'd or out of date or otherwise duplicate have been updated, making artist pages a considerably more reliable resource than they were before
- behind the scenes, lots of code changes to make accidentally typo'd or duplicate artist names much more difficult
- chronology links
- "chronology links" have been added to the bottom of the sidebar on track pages
- these let you follow through the history of an artist's contributions without having to navigate back and forth between their own artist page
- beyond canon
- the new official album Beyond Canon has been transcribed! pretty minimal commentary and no track art, as yet.
- pages for the routes of Hiveswap: Friendsim and Pesterquest were added to the Flashes page!
- the new "flash" pages contain full credits for their authors and asset artists, and these can be explored like any other link
- typo fixes from foreverFlummoxed
- per foreverFlummoxed's excellent page-checking, a bunch of typos and missing track art around the site have been fixed!
- more sburb commentary
- the Sburb solo album was rereleased by its artist, so Bandcamp links have been copied to its track pages, as have the new commentary released with it
- Land of Fans and Music (and References and Randomness and Art and Also Some Other Stuff)
homepage
- four new albums archived (and their booklets transcribed): Land of Fans and Music, Land of Fans and Music 2, Land of Fans and Music 3, and Land of Fans and Music 4
- (the commentary booklets transcribed here are hilarious and very insightful and there are a bunch of easter eggs - check them out!)
- another new "album", Unreleased Tracks, containing tracks which were never released but were either referenced in released tracks or included in flash animations
- the text of the link to the feedback page has been changed from "Feedback" to "Feedback & Suggestions"
listings
- two new listings: Tracks - by Times Referenced and Random Pages
- if you're bored and don't know here to start exploring, the Random Pages listing has a bunch of links that will decide for you! (it does require JavaScript, though)
album/track pages
- these got their share of randomness too, in the form of a new "Random Track" link at the bottom of the sidebar
- cover art can now have a distinct release date from the album, which is the case for anthology projects that organize art for an album after it has been released
artist pages
- track credit listings already showed collaborators in contribution lines; now cover art credits do too, e.g. the page for Mika B..
miscellaneous
- the Homestuck Vol. 5 Anthology has been mirrored in the Homestuck Vol. 5 album page
- a new feature acknowledgements section has been added to the About & Credits page
- a bunch of code changes to make expanding the wiki a fair bit less difficult
- embracing fanon
homepage
- the homepage is now split into two sections: "Fandom" and "Official"
- only one fandom album now, Diverging Delicacies, but more to come soon
- the official album grid listing was changed to sort the newest releases closest to the top of the page, as bandcamp orders releases, to keep consistent with the fandom grid listing (where we want new releases to stand out right away)
track pages
- the "tracks that referenced" list is now grouped into two sections: official and fandom
flashes
- a CSS change targeting the homepage inadvertently made the headings on the flash index look very fancy, and i kept this because it looks cool
- flash pages
homepage
- link to the new Flashes index page
flash pages
- an individual page for each flash, and a new grid-style index (like the homepage) to collect them all, grouped by act
- each flash gets its own unique thumbnail (except A6I4 flashes, please forgive me troll clown jegus)
- every flash page has a link to play the flash on homestuck.com, its page number, release date, and a list of the tracks featured in it
- the code to generate sidebar was absolute hell to write
- jadevris
track pages
- a track's page will list the flashes in which it's been referenced, e.g. Elevatorstuck
artist pages
- within the list of tracks an artist has contributed music to, if that track has been featured in any flashes, those will be listed on the track's contribution line
miscellaneous
- switched a couple artist names around, for consistency with credits in the latest release (Homestuck Vol. 10)
- added a new Feedback page, with links to contact me; this is also linked from the homepage
- commentary for Sburb
- copied commentary for the Sburb album, per descriptions of the YouTube videos
- commentary for [S] Collide.
- copied commentary from James Roach on twitter about his contributions to the [S] Collide. album
- commentary & lyrics
- copied over official commentary booklets for three official albums - AlterniaBound, One Year Older, Homestuck Vol. 10 - beginning a long tale of booklet transcription going forward
- added a new section to track pages for lyrics, e.g. on Temporal Shenanigans
- added two new listing pages: Tracks - with Lyrics and All Commentary
- so many new pages
homepage / "About & Credits"
- moved the intro message to a new About & Credits page
- structured the site credits list more nicely there
- added a new "Explore the site!" box on the homepage, linking to the about page as well as the new listings index
listings
- completely new pages for exploring the wiki in completely new ways; they serve as an alternative to writing a dynamic search engine, because github doesn't let us write a custom backend and client-side javascript sucks
- all linked from listings index, accessible through the sidebar
- there are nine of these but if you doubt i'm going to list them all, you're wrong
- Albums - by Name: every album, sorted alphabetically
- Albums - by Date: every album, sorted chronologically (at the time this was no different than the homepage grid listing's sort, but today it contains fandom albums interweaved with official ones)
- Albums - by Tracks: every album, sorted by number of tracks
- Artists - by Name: every artist, sorted by name (this also shows the number of contributions each artist has made next to their name)
- Artists - by Commentary: every artist, sorted by number of commentary entries
- Artists - by Contributions: every artist, sorted by number of contributions (times credited as a contributor, to music or art, on any track or album)
- Tracks - by Name: every track, sorted alphabetically
- Tracks - by Album: every track, grouped by album
- Tracks - by Date: every track, grouped by release date
- grouped artist listings
- artist page credit listings have been sigificantly restructured (before, after)
- contributions are now grouped by album (or more specifically, by release date, which is noteworthy in the case of Homestuck Vol. 1-4, which was originally released over a period of four distinct dates, plus one for the final compiled album release)
- because it's easy to see where tracks are referenced now, dim contribution lines (showing tracks which reference a track by the specific artist, but were not otherwise contributed to by them) have been removed
- the lists aren't numbered anymore because, with this grouping, it was sort of ambiguous whether that referred to a track's position in the album or if it was a continuous counter of the artist's contributions (it was the latter); both such counters can now be displayed by holding still the cursor over a contribution line for a moment
- removed a few referenced-track contributions i'd missed switching to the new format (distinct reference lists) earlier
- high-res cover art
- copied cover art from this archive, which was originally compiled by clicking each cover art off the bandcamp to get a higher-resolution cover art (it is intentionally still less than the resolution gotten in purchased album downloads, for particularly high-res art)
- commentary for Hiveswap Act 1 OST
- track references & commentary
homepage
- got rid of the twitter link on my name and added two links in its place - my twitter and reddit accounts - as well as a note that suggestions and feedback are welcome
track pages
- track references show up in a dedicated list now
- forward-facing reference links: track pages list not just the tracks they reference, but the tracks which reference them
- reference data is from NSND (credited on the homepage)
- "listen on" links show up before the contributor list instead of after; reference list after contributor list
- at the very bottom, a new section for artist commentary, largely copied from this pastebin
artist pages
- added a message describing dim contribution lines: "Dim tracks are tracks that this artist contributed only a based-upon song to."
- for tracks with multiple contributors, those are listed as well, e.g. "(with Michael Guy Bowman)"
- note that this doesn't include "contributors" who only provided a referenced track, since those are now stored in a list separate from the contributors list
- a new section for commentary
- a "jump to" paragraph at the top, to quickly scroll to any of the track/art/commentary sections
- initial release
initial release of the website
- published on github with code under the GPL; hosted on hsmusic.github.io
- advertised exclusively on reddit
- (and maybe twitter but my account has long been deleted)
homepage
- an intro message which has since been moved to About & Credits
- a grid listing for the albums: all official releases, from Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead through Hiveswap Friendsim
album pages
- album name, release date, track listing, cover art & art credits
- solo albums also show their artist
track pages
- track name, release date, artists (musicians), cover art & art credits
- links to listen to the track too (and code to convert URLs into human-readable site names, e.g. "YouTube" or "Bandcamp" or "(External)")
- rudimentary leitmotif reference credits in the form of "Contributors" list
- contributors list also contains credited collaborators on the track, e.g. producers, vocalists
artist pages
- name, track and art credits
- artist pages look quite different from today but serve the same purpose of listing their contributions
- here's an example
- credits are all in one numbered list; most are just the name of the track contributed to and the album it's from
- for tracks where an artist made a specific contribution, that's mentioned too, e.g. "Sburban Countdown (arrangement)"
- if a musician's contribution is simply a track which was referenced, the line for that contribution is slightly dim (it still contributes to the counter)