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site changes

• added basic support for styling albums as "singles"
  • gets rid of the album page completely (which redirects to the first track)
  • hides the track list, if the single only has one track, and cuts the "track list" heading if it has two or more
  • hides the track name in the nav bar, if the single only has one track
  • presents groups in their full view in the sidebar and nav bar
  • essentially a custom presentation, so these are still treated like any other album within various parts of the wiki, pending progressively tighter integration
• added "music videos" feature, which covers music videos of course, with support also for lyric videos, live performances, etc; currently applied across Michael Guy Bowman discography, Cool and New Music Team discography, community listening streams, album trailers, and various tracks all around the wiki
• added "by series" view to group gallery pages, which presents albums within their series instead of a single chronological grid; "by date" remains the default view
• added "previously featured tracks" field for flashes, which lists tracks that were at a previous time in the flash, but aren't any longer; generally used for removed and replaced material, like in [S] ==>
• added "origin details" field for artworks, which enables totally custom descriptions about where an artwork comes from; displayed beneath "by (artists)" and "via (source)" line on album and track pages, as well as in artists' artwork lists; currently used for crops of comic panels and flashes across Official Discography, and for asset credits in Hiveswap Friendsim
  • added similar "file details" field, which has info about the specific file as included on the wiki, rather than details on the artwork itself
• added "attach above" field for artworks, which visually links related artworks together (provided they're for the same track or album), and shuttles away identical data e.g. because the artworks have the same artists or tags, and adds auto-inheritence so those identical lists don't have to be typed out twice, either; all in all used for earlier versions of album covers and track art, full-size cuts, and perhaps other useful places
• added "reuse from" field for artworks, indicating an artwork is reused from some earlier or other release, automatically keeping art tags and other details in sync, and trimming duplicates in artist and art tag gallery pages; the artwork still gets a unique file so very minor differences, e.g. in dimensions/resolution, are preserved
• remade the homepage carousel pretty much from scratch
  • no longer a carousel... now supports keyboard controls (tab key), keeps tiles static under the mouse cursor, and scales tiles ever somewhat smaller, instead of trimming the selection on narrow screens
  • added support for rotating tiles, which follow a sequence of album week by week, and randomized tiles, which randomly show a different album each week
  • at the moment split about half between team albums and solo releases; the album pool is set by hand, so it'll definitely vary with later updates
• reworked the changelog to be one page per update, grouped per main update
• revised the presentation of credits on artist info pages:
  • annotations, meaning an artist's specific contribution, are now shown always at the end of the line, following a "—"
  • the "with other artists" stretch of text has been completely removed, since it typically just confused credited roles, and the most detailed information is always available on the track page
  • each credit now contextually shows the complete artist information for the track, if that's markedly relevant information; for example Jane Dargason shows as "by Clark Powell and rj lake" on either artist's page, Solar Voyage shows as "by Marcy Nabors" on Erik Scheele's page
  • the "chunk" for each album now shows the album's artists; this is one-to-one, so albums not labeled "by" really don't have listed album artists on the wiki
  • credits which don't count toward the artist's totals are moved into a secondary list below the rest of the artist's contributions within each album; within an album where the artist did both, the artist's own tracks appear above other artists' tracks they mastered
  • however, tracks which are secondary releases, despite generally not counting themselves toward an artist's totals, are processed in terms of the main release - they aren't demoted to the secondary list just for being secondary releases
  • that means tracks with other releases show annotations now instead of just dropping them, which was probably at least halfway an accident
  • also, the artist the current page is for is now bolded within credits all around the page, and artists can be credited by names which differ from the artist's main/page name, listed in an annotation on the album line
• revised the presentation of releases on group gallery pages:
  • albums can now be listed by series here; "by date" is still the default on group gallery pages, "by series" still the default on group info pages
  • added a "tab" to the top of almost all release boxes on every group gallery page; the text is automatically determined, first showing the names of the release's groups from a different category as the current group, and if none, showing the album artists
  • for example, Curtain Call - Maragi Radi shows "Desynced" in Fandom and "Spad3s" in Desynced; Vivid Spectrum shows "Solatrus and Marcy Nabors" in Solatrus; PRAY shows "Itoki Hana" in Toby Fox
  • added a filter box for Fandom and Beyond which lets you choose to show just albums or just singles
  • added a control for immediately revealing all artworks with warnings (this is present on art tag galleries too)
  • let albums with tracks, yet no durations for those tracks, show the number of tracks; also adjusted this info line for singles
• revised the presentation of commentary sections on all info pages:
  • if a commentary section has entries annotated "wiki editor", the section is now titled and linked as "artist and wiki commentary" (or as only "wiki commentary")
  • if a track info page has just about nothing else going on at all, the line with the "read artist commentary" scrolling link is now completely skipped
  • if an album has commentary on itself but none on any of its tracks, the "view commentary page" link is now skipped, and an ordinary "read artist commentary" scrolling link is shown instead
  • for all commentary sections, added the name of the track, album, or flash into its title
• revised the presentation of commentary sections for secondary release tracks in particular: (old, new)
  • moved artist commentary for the current release up above commentary for the main release
  • removed the box calling out commentary "specific to this release"
  • placed commentary brought over from the main release into its own visual area
• added a bunch of lines to let lyrics entries be more meaningfully detailed
  • lyrics sourced from a particular platform or other website may now link to that website in a "Via..." line
  • wiki lyrics - entries filled out and formatted specially for the wiki - may now list who's helped out in a "Contributions from..." line
  • wiki lyrics which include annotative text in [square brackets] now automatically draw attention there in a "Mind parts marked in..." line
  • totally custom details may be included on their own line, through an "origin details" field, similar as for artworks
• completely reworked the "group contributions" table on artist pages, making it into an actual table now; sorting options are removed, opting to always show rows in the normal wiki order, and clicking on a group now filters the artist's contributions within that group (one artist: old, new; across artists: old, new)
• adjusted visiting links on artist pages to show the specific handle/username/etc. when an artist has links to multiple profiles/pages on the same platform
• adjusted visiting links, listening links, etc, to display links in a row-style list if there are a bunch of links to be shown, or several links with parenthesized annotations
• changed the big artwork images on info pages to use "srcset" attribute, so they'll generally appear much sharper on high-resolution displays; they still always download thumbnails, just slightly larger ones than we coded some five years ago
• changed track artwork files to not include the album's directory suffix at the end, for example Frost is now album-art/homestuck-vol-6/frost.png, rather than album-art/homestuck-vol-6/frost-vol6.png; the actual track directories / page URLs remain unchanged
• stopped counting secondary releases as additional track contributions, adjusting counts for almost all artists, visible in "Artists - by Contributions" listing (old, new ) and in artist group contribution info (old, new)
• made album banners appear on track pages too, where they're always one set height across the wiki, dimmed a little, and manually aligned, so hopefully it's fun but not too distracting
• made "crediting sources" section collapsed by default, though it stays visible across pages once you've opened it
• added "referencing sources" section for track pages, which works the same as crediting sources, and includes citations or conversations which contextualize a track's listed references and samples
• added "Needs Lyrics" field, and a corresponding Tracks - which need Lyrics listing
• added support to hide an album's duration, which makes that duration and the album's track count disappear most places, and excludes the album from the "Albums - by Tracks" and "Albums - by Duration" listings
• added buttons to filter sidebar search results by kind (ex. tracks, albums, artists); chosen filter is preserved between consecutive searches; typing the kind you're looking for, e.g. searching "toby artist", still works too
• added "attached search results" so tracks show the Homestuck flashes they're used in, and "archetype" art tags show all the tags they group together
• added a link in the search box to return to where you started your search, regardless if you've since navigated further
• made the search database generally not mandate typing out the entire word (so "crystal" has a lot more matches), unless you enclose those words in quotation marks... which is not quite the way 'verbatim' search is meant to work, but pretty close
• made the search database guess reasonably at group information for artists, so you can search "james official" and get three results (versus 15 or so for just "james"), or just the first letter or two of an artist's name, like "desynced r"
• made the search database include additional names, so searching "blind justice" comes up with results now
• made the search database include secondary releases (generally rereleases) whose names differ from the main release, so searching "Predomination" comes up with results now
• made the search database generally bring releases from Official Discography above releases from Fandom, Fandom above Beyond, etc, provided the search results are matched for the same reasons
• made the search database show simple, name-only matches at the very top, instead of the bottom, and removed almost all "fancy" combinations of matchable metadata, so search results are usually much more predictable and sensible
• made the search box disambiguate multiple tracks with the same name by showing which album each is from, e.g. Light from Homestuck Vol. 5 vs Light from Medium
• added "show more" control on art tag info pages, showing a tag's "grandchildren" beyond the tags that directly fall under it
• added tooltips to the "also released on" line on track info pages, so you can see how much earlier or later the other releases came, and know if the track is named differently between releases
• made reference lists swap out tracks for an alternate release of the same track within the album you're currently viewing, ex. you can jump between Showtime (Piano Refrain) and Showtime (Original Mix) while staying in Homestuck Vol. 1-4, now
• expanded custom support for media elements in content text (e.g. commentary), with support for full-width images and videos, "nameless" audios which hide insubstantial filename, and inline / non-boxed videos
• adjusted the drop shadow and border effects for the main page element, so it's lifted off the background a little more clearly
• adapted the page opacity to album wallpaper elements, keeping text and layout legible while letting brighter, bolder, and deeper colors show in more expressive ways
• added support for generic tooltipsvery cool in content text anywhere, but mostly for the changelog
• added decorative dividing line after track lists on album info pages
• added a nice effect when you hover an album banner... unless you're on Firefox... sorry Firefox...