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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