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The Homestuck Music Wiki — static wiki software cataloguing collaborative creation
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"Groups - by Latest Albums" listing, w/ multiple latest albums shown #213

Open towerofnix opened 1 year ago

towerofnix commented 1 year ago

This is a follow-up to #212, which ended up introducing too much visual noise to be workable. (Lots of rainbow links packed densely is never a good sign.)

An alternate, new listing would be very similar in behavior, but in presentation would show the three latest albums (chunked-style) from each group. The precise date of latest album would be shown next to group link, and the year of each album besides its name — as well as a secondary group if relevant, much the same as items on the group info page.

List of albums on Official Discography group info page. Includes some albums which are from solo artists.

I haven't tried implementing this one yet, but it shows more promise. Layout is somewhat visually similar to the existing "Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Flash)" listing.

Tracks - in Flashes & Games (by Flash) listing. While it contains a lot of information, it's spaced out enough and is relatively color-balanced, so isn't very overwhelming.

Also... this listing could use a better name than "Groups - by Latest Albums" 📦

towerofnix commented 1 year ago

Worth exploring not coloring album links in this listing, and seeing how that impacts visual noise versus identifiability of albums. The "important detail" here may be the fact that a given album is from a given group, rather than its own independent identity (what color usually signifies).