What's new
A short public log of what landed on the archive recently — grouped by day, written for readers, drawn from the git trail.
Ship notes · not a commit dump · Archive first · Fan Zone behind flags · Curated from the last few days of work
Recent days
28 July 2026
YBNL MaFia Family joins the discography
The label's only group album — thirteen tracks, 14 December 2018 — now has its own page, with Reinvention-era context and roster deep-links into it. “Motigbana” and “Poverty Die” sit on this release instead of the 2012 YBNL album, still flagged as singles. It's also where Fireboy DML's “Jealous” first appeared.
Street Lingo — the words that travelled
A lexicon of the Yoruba and Mainland terms Olamide put into national circulation — Ẹni Dúró, Shoki, Ọmọ Wóbè, Wó! — with what each means, the record that carried it, era filters, search, and a paste-up poster you can compose from any entry.
Album pages: key bars ride with the player
Tracklists now keep key bars and credits in a sticky side rail beside the embed. Skip a track and the matching bar lights up where it already sits — no jumping layout.
A guided route through the impact map
The map offers a four-stop walk from Bariga out to the first international dates, and the influence graph lets you jump to a YBNL signing year. Both stay current as pins and signings are added.
Editorial texture across the archive
Adire patterning on heroes and the footer, drop-cap chapter prose, and Yoruba proverb callouts in long-form pages — small Afro-street cues that keep the reading surface from going flat.
Accessibility pass across chrome & Fan Zone
The mobile menu traps keyboard focus and returns it on close, desktop menus use proper disclosure semantics, and search results, now-playing players, impact pins, media cinema, and poll results announce changes to screen readers. Comment and poll controls get real labels; heading order and “opens in a new tab” cues are cleaned up site-wide.
27 July 2026
Biography — the story, start to now
A new narrative page walks Olamide’s career across six eras: quick facts, chapter pull quotes, and deep links into each era — so the throughline sits beside the discography instead of only on the timeline.
Open Graph cards, per section
Share links for About, Discography, Songs, Impact, Fan Zone, and more now get distinct editorial OG images instead of the same homepage wordmark — public fan profiles get their own card too.
Fan Zone: streaks & stamps
Signed-in fans build a return-visit streak and collect paste-up “stamps” for favoriting, stacking a playlist, commenting, and going public — tracked automatically, styled like archive ephemera instead of a gamified checklist.
Public fan profiles
Fans can opt in to a public profile so others can browse their favorited eras/albums and playlist. Off by default — one switch in the account panel, with a new directory to browse who's opted in.
Poll results, on the page they're about
Polls can now be scoped to a specific era or album, so the results sit permanently on that page instead of living only in the Fan Zone hub.
Threaded comment replies
Comment threads support one level of replies, so a reaction to a specific comment reads as a reply instead of piling up at the bottom of the thread.
Save eras & albums for offline reading
A save button caches the page itself for offline viewing — everything you've saved shows up on the new Saved page, connection or not.
Three mobile-first upgrades
A bottom-sheet nav replaces the cramped mobile menu, swiping left or right moves between tracks while an embed is open, and snippets can share a downloadable vertical story image straight to Instagram/WhatsApp.
Related albums, by era & collaborator
Album pages now surface same-era albums and cross-era matches sharing a feature credit (parsed straight from tracklist notes), so digging deeper into the discography takes one click.
“On this day” on the homepage
The homepage now surfaces albums and era moments whose date matches today — including the rare day where more than one lands at once.
Site-wide search
A dependency-free search over albums, eras, songs, and snippets, wired to a header shortcut for finding anything in the archive fast.
Changelog pagination & update notice
This page now paginates by day instead of scrolling forever, and a quiet banner tells returning visitors when a fresh build has landed and it's safe to refresh.
Album & era cards, retiled
AlbumCard and EraCard move to a quieter flagship look — accent lives in a rule and label color instead of a solid fill, with a fix so danfo yellow stays readable as text on paper.
New chrome primitives
Disclaimer strip, door card, filter chips, page header, and ticker join the design system, plus refined button, modal, and track-row patterns and a tidy-up of border styles to numeric scale across the site.
Clearer delete actions
A dedicated danger button variant marks destructive admin actions — deleting albums, eras, and media — apart from routine ones.
Steadier Fan Zone sign-in
Stale or revoked Supabase refresh tokens are now cleared instead of surfacing repeated auth errors, so sessions recover cleanly.
26 July 2026
Next.js 16.2.12 & image tooling
Framework bump to Next 16.2.12 (with matching eslint-config-next), plus an explicit sharp dependency for admin asset uploads and image optimization.
Security hardening pass
Rate limits on analytics collect and Fan Zone sign-up/sign-in, safer favorite links, stronger fan passwords, scrubbed public settings (takedown email no longer anon-readable), validated GA/GTM IDs, HSTS in production, and a hard split so Fan Zone accounts can’t reach the admin console.
First-party analytics & visitor badge
Anonymous pageview tracking (no IP, no personal profiles), an admin Analytics console with 30-day charts and top pages, and a danfo visitor counter in the footer. Privacy notes live on Legal.
What’s new page
This changelog — a public record of what shipped recently, linked from the footer Meta column and the More menu.
Cover art LCP polish
Above-the-fold album covers now eager-load with high fetch priority so the first paint stays sharp on home, discography, era, and album pages.
This page is editorial, not exhaustive — internal refactors and tooling commits are folded into the notes that matter for visitors. For affiliation and takedown rules, see Legal.