The sunsetting of Mecha and the ascension of Bagon!

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Hello scholars! We released the new Bagon song page (the version you see now) more than 2 months ago. When we released it, we knew we still had a lot of work to do to make it amazing, but we wanted to get it in your hands as early as possible to get feedback on what was most important. And we got just that! Thanks to your feedback, we've fixed countless bugs, added new features, and sped things up considerably. So, seriously, thanks for helping us make progress!

We knew that, while we were fixing the bugs, we had to keep Mecha (the old version of the song page) alive so that y'all could continue to work hard on the stuff that you're passionate about when Bagon was broken or missing something.

At this point, after 2 months of bugfixing and feature development, Bagon is ready to take over, and it's time to start sunsetting Mecha (the old version of the song page).

But why? Can't we just keep Mecha forever?

Unfortunately, we can't. Every day it seems, people report new bugs with mecha, like this one and this one. One of the reasons that we replaced Mecha in the first place was that, after many years making changes to the page, it had become difficult to make new changes without introducing bugs. We would fix one problem only to find out that 2 more had sprung up in its place. If we kept Mecha around without fixing any of these problems, we would see more and more bugs pop up over time, as we continue to iterate and add new features, until the page became entirely unusable.

Unlike Mecha, Bagon makes adding new features much easier. Because of that, I want to hear about your ideal features for the page! I can't make any promises, but we've already added new features like tracking samples, additional credits, and being able to make changes to the page in place (i.e. without reloading the page). All of these were long-standing requests from y'all that were much easier to add on Bagon.

But I love the dark background! Don't take it away!

Don't worry, you can still have a dark background! As I've outlined a few times before, it's simply too difficult to maintain two different color schemes ourselves, but the good news is that a Genius user has made an extension that allows you to get a dark background version of Bagon! Check out the instructions below (h/t @Magotox):

https://genius.com/Genius-how-to-turn-your-background-color-black-annotated

When will this happen?

We know that people are still using Mecha, and so we don't want to just flip the switch and give everyone whiplash. I also know that there may still be functionality that works only on Mecha, and I want to hear about that! So, the plan is to keep it on until next Thursday, meaning that the last full day that it'll be accessible is Wednesday March 9th.

In the meantime, please let me know (in this thread) if there is functionality that only exists in Mecha that you are relying on. Please also continue to report Bagon bugs over in the bugs forum.

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Bong bong! Welcome to the future!

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