User blog:UltiVerse/2018 - A Year of Renovation: Update 1

Welcome to the first update blog for 2018 - A Year of Renovation! Here's what we have accomplished so far this year. This will also be one of my final edits as bureaucrat, as I will be stepping down per the community's request.

User-Related Events

 * CaT and Mig stepped down from bureaucrat.
 * Brandon and Shades were promoted to administrator and later, bureaucrat.
 * Subterra and Lacey joined the wiki.
 * Aaron was promoted to administrator.
 * Brandon, Shades and Ulti stepped down from bureaucrat.
 * CaT was promoted to bureaucrat.

Wiki Events

 * 2018 - A Year of Renovation was introduced, focused on updating the wiki to fit modern standards.
 * Planet Chaturn, Wikia's official chatroom for the wiki, was disabled.
 * The wiki's official Discord server began following the TV-MA Blacklist.
 * Eye Guy Fest occurred.
 * Sign-ups for the fifth Chain of Gifts have begun.

Other

 * The Record Book, Community Guidelines, Alien Fest and Wiki Events (formerly called 'Holidays') pages have been updated.
 * A few Project pages have been deleted, including 'Project:About' and 'Project:Halloween'.
 * The wiki's navbar was updated.
 * Project pages for the Chain of Gifts and Spooktober Horror Contest have been created.
 * As usual, cleanup on the wiki is going smoothly.

Thank you all for reading. Congratulations to Aaron for his promotion, and congratulations to CaT for his re-promotion. I'm sure you guys (as well as whoever becomes the third admin) will do great in making the Year of Renovation a success.