User blog:Acapnia/First Staff Blog!

Hello, welcome to Custom BIONICLE's first staff blog. These will be posted by other staff members along with myself about updates going on here at Custom BIONICLE and it's affairs. As you may have noticed by looking at the main page, we are now on most of the major social sites (with the exception of Instagram). With these sites we plan to expand out member count. Thanks to our integration with these sites (namely our YouTube channel), the wiki is fully active and alive as it once was. As opposed to where we were when we first made the channel, in which we'd be lucky to get an editor a day.

But we're getting back into full swing by promotion and it's going great. Someone mentioned to me that it was like Custom BIONICLE's renaissance. Now onto the news I wanted to discuss. Primarily our recent affiliations with The Three Virtues and Solis Magna, two BIONICLE related projects. Let me go into what they are and why we sought affiliation with them. Cross promotion. Solis Magna and Custom BIONICLE could both use new traffic, and The Three Virtues and Custom BIONICLE wanted to collaborate with each other on videos to promote each others channels and sites. Which is where some new users may come from. Isn't that neat? Now you're probably wondering "What's The Three Virtues?" or "What's Solis Magna?"

Well young padawan you've come to the right place. The Three Virtues is a new source YouTube channel that runs a podcast and posts videos covering LEGO and BIONICLE news. They're also making a movie called BioCraft, which I suggest looking up. Solis Magna is a fan continuation of the BIONICLE storyline, in which one of our own contributors is a part of. He'll be making a blog post going into more detail about it in due time.

The second announcement I wanna make is that the chat function has been enabled. I don't know how long it'll last, but just know it's not permanent. It's enabled now because we're testing it for something we're working on. So tell us what you think about these changes and what you think we can do to improve your experience on this site for the future. We're aiming to make Custom BIONICLE one of the largest BIONICLE communities out there, and we need your help to do it!

More news to come in the future, stay classy.

&mdash; kg josh  23:11, January 17, 2014 (UTC)