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I just wanted to quickly say for a moment how awesome all the Arcanists are. They spent MANY hours and evenings going through plenty of audio, hunting down random things on Twitter and Reddit. They are really the rock stars. They are also rock stars for dealing with me being a grumpy manager and pestering them about tasks The Shadowdays of finding WoBs and researching are done, friends. We did it. This changes everything. This is so surreal to me, because I obviously wanted a system like this for so long. There's nothing on the internet quite like this system, to my knowledge, so designing how it should function, along with its look-and-feel, was terrifying. It's brand-new! This is also the largest project 17th Shard has ever done, to code something from the ground-up. It's crazy. Not only was coding intense, but on the input side of things, we basically redid all of Theoryland. How crazy is that? It's finally here for you to see and browse, and it will be around for the duration of the fandom, I assure you. There's still a lot to do. I'll be posting an Upcoming Features topic pretty soon, explaining what we still have left to do. We'll be very open about everything with Arcanum. But it's here, in time for Oathbringer, and that's incredible. Special thanks to Mestiv, who is the true hero. Without him, this would not exist. He changed this entire project and coded this all. What a boss. He's also the nicest guy ever (second to, I think, Brandon Sanderson himself), so you should pour a ton of adoration his way. He got all this audio stuff working. It's incredible. I hope you like it <3

Arcanum: over 300 unique Brandon "uhh" and "hmm" sounds!

I posted this in the wrong forum, so here it is I'd like to step in to raise some toasts here. Quite a few people contributed significant amounts of time to this...masterpiece of Cosmerology. I feel like it's dominated my minimal spare time for a while but I was a later and lesser contributor (and helping was something I was both honored and duty-bound to do given my WoBsession). Sharders we all know and love like Jofwu, Kurkistan, Windrunner, Calderis, Blightsong, Oversleep. Particular praise to Pagerunner and Argent for their outsized contributions. Unsurprisingly Chaos is magnificent, delegating like a demon and pulling endless long nights, working on this thing long, long before I was even a member of this site. (And my involvement with this is recent so forgive me if I've under-credited people). I may have contributed a bit but I'll get so much more out of Arcanum than I could ever give to it. Many of you know my WoBsession and this transforms the ability to gain a black belt in WoBfu. But my endless thanks for truly making this Wonderland of WoBs happen go to two people. Firstly, Mestiv. The Codebringer. He has done so much in making this dream happen. I don't speak code but I understand what he's done is not easy and I know the results are beautiful. He has enabled our addiction. And, this cannot be emphasised enough - he's not even a WoB fiend. He did this for the community, for you. What a guy. But my endless gratitude, admiration and love are for Weiry. the Master of WoBs, a guy I looked up to even before I realized the scope of this and his part in it. He made this happen. Since long before i was a member of this site he plotted and planned, and of course WoBbed. He put in the work. He had the vision. This was his Citizen Kane. For years and years from now, when you can learn the Cosmere more easily, you have Weiry to thank. He's my hero, and he'd better be your storming hero too. So go! WoB like you've never WoBbed before. Browse over seven THOUSAND WoBs, many never before seen, with full sources. If you've ever wondered where that WoB is you swear you remember, it's here. If you've ever wondered about Brandon's intonation in that doubtful WoB, or wanted to hear his hilarious reaction to bizarre theories (e.g. Wayne stole a Returned Horse), the audio snippet awaits. If you're obsessed with a particular topic and want to research it, it's one search away. So go! Enjoy the labor of love of many, inspired by one. Soak it up. So go. Dance with the WoBs.

Of all the WoBs to show as an example, you picked that one?

The site is amazing, and I can't thank all of you who made it enough. I'm going to try to do my little bit here and post how to make a change I think would improve the site, although I'm sure my explanation will be unnecessary thanks to our phenomenal programmers. If you go to an event page on the site, such as https://wob.coppermind.net/events/127-salt-lake-city-comiccon-2017/, you'll notice that as you scroll down, the navbar at the top of the page attaches to the top and continues coming down for ease of access. I think this is a phenomenal feature (and I know a lot more work goes into something like this than it seems on the surface), so when someone else mentioned that the event box on the side should do the same, I agreed. I then played around in Inspect Element until I figured out how to make that work, hopefully making things a little easier on our dev team. To do this, you'll need to use JQuery (and therefore JavaScript), but I'd imagine this is already incorporated. The change is minor; it should be 10 lines at most. Basically, you need to add a new function in your JavaScript doc which identifies the div element surrounding the event box, then add a line which uses ".offset()" to find how far down it is on a given user's device and assigns that value to a variable. With that done, you can make a function that will determine whether the window has a ".scrollTop" value of greater than the value of the variable minus n, where n is how much space should be at the top of the page when the effect takes action. If the window does, invoke ".css({'position':'fixed','top':'y','right':'x'})" on the div element, where y and x represent the desired displacement from the top of the screen and right side of the screen respectively. If the window doesn't, reset the position to static. You may want to add a secondary "if" condition to see whether or not the changes have already been made before invoking them again so as the user scrolls further down the attributes aren't continually applied - that would slow the browser and make the div potentially lag. Again, if there's anything else I can do to help, I'd be happy to.

Gotta admit, I didn't read too carefully on the thing I picked xD

Way too excited for this. But it'll keep me busy until Oathbringer is released! Man, my productivity at work is going to take a dive...

Best tag: https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=&date_from=&date_to=&speaker=&tags=time+bubbles

Awesome! Nothing against the Tor review, but this one does way more to get me hyped as a fanboy.

Crackpot theory: What if the Mystery project's title is literally "Mystery Project"? A meta-Sandersonian twist!