As already announced, I did some work to the band, album, and user tags, which makes me think I should compile a complete list of tags that we currently have and how they work.

To prevent tags from being parsed, I'll insert spaces. Obviously these will need to be removed when using them.

Tags that aren't accessible via buttons below the post box:

[ user id=32779 ] corrupt [ /user ]

id has to be numerical.
If an ID is provided and leads to a user profile, it will always win and overwrite the tag label. Failing that, the name will be parsed as a username and if said user exists, they will be linked. If nothing works, just the name will be printed

[ band id=94 ] Emperor [ /band ]

id has to be numerical.
Same behavior as the user tag, just for bands.

[ album id=623 ] Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk [ /album ]

id has to be numerical.
Same behavior as the user tag, just for albums.

I collected some feedback and this is the next iteration based on that:

The format for [band], [user], and [album] tags got one more overhaul. The key point was to make it possible to decide the link label when posting tags. E.g. Probably the best band in the world. period.

Since we have the ID attribute now, it became kinda pointless to write [ band id=94 ] [ /band ] when you just want the link label to be the band's name, so [ band id=94 ] now works alone. Same for [ user ], and [ album ].

As such, we are left with this format, that is fully backwards-compatible with the old [ band ] tag format:

[ band id=94 ] will resolve to Emperor.
[ band id=10475 ] will resolve to Véhémence, as will [ band ]Véhémence[ /band ].

Precise spelling still takes precedence, so [ band ]vehemence[ /band ] will instead resolve to Vehemence.

A label together with an id, will resolve the link, but leave you with a custom label like:
[ user id=137742 ]Certified Hipster[ /user ] resolving to Certified Hipster.
[ album id=623 ]The one album for the lonely island[ /album ] resolving to The one album for the lonely island.

Bottom line, no longer will you have to link Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs with their full name ever again. A problem, I'm sure, all of you have had already

Album tags now have a "band_id" attribute. This is mainly for people posting news right now.

If you know that an album will come out and you're creating a news post about it but it is not on MS yet, you can now link it by name, but also provide a band ID to make sure it links correctly once it is added to our database. The result will be italicized while not in our database like any album we mention but don't feature, and once it is in our database it'll link and you can make sure it is to the right one.

Example:

[ album ] 1349 [ /album ] links like this: 1349

whereas

[ album band_id=340 ] 1349 [ /album ] links like this: 1349

For cases where there is for example an album coming out that has the same name as an existing EP or single, we can add a "type" attribute. But since that is a little blurry in that people would have to know exactly what to put in it, I didn't implement that for now.