Well it has been one hell of a week, but we are finally here.  The launch.  The site has been completely re-built from the ground up on a brand new server, which means we have implemented the most recent web technology into it.

Among all the 100+ new features & fixes are:

- YouTube Account Integration
- Project Playlist Integration
- New Picture Manager
- Blogging
- New Message Center
- New Profile Layout
- Avatar Generator
- Brand New Forum
- News Feed
- and more...

Speed: Lot's of people have been writing saying the site has been super slow, so we are on a new server which is much faster, and all the pictures have been optimized to allow even greater speed.

So What's Coming Next? Ton's!!! 

Groups: To start we are now categorizing all members into 4 Categories.  Models, Photographers, Athletes, and Artists.  (Musicians have been pushed into the Artists category.)  Later this week we will be launching the ability to Create groups.  This way everybody can join whichever groups they want and create the ones that are not there.  No longer are you stuck with just Models, but you can find people with similar interests in the Fashion and other industries.

Banner Generator: We have created a flash based Banner Generator that allows you to create banners to be place on other sites.  You will have full text control and cropping control over all of the pictures in your profile.  Look for that later this week.

Templates: More and more templates will be able to be found under the Settings » Themes section of the site and we will be adding many throughout the coming months to spruce up your profile.  If you have a template you wish for us to include, we will be allowing users to generate their own in the near future.

Lot's More: There is so much more that is coming that we can't tell you about yet but are really excited about. 

KIND Industries is about to grow by leaps and bounds and we are all really excited in the direction we are taking it, and we CAN'T THANK EVERYBODY ENOUGH who have been here from the beginning, and I promise you your in for a treat in the coming months!

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Well as you undoubtedly all know, Kind Industries has been down for the better part of a week.  Something I am not proud of, and here is the story.

We have been hosting with GoDaddy.  Probably one of the shittiest Hosting companies I have had to deal with.  I am in the process of removing every site I have from them, but that is another story.  So we had been planning on a nice smooth launch this past Friday, February 15th, and on the 12th the server crashes, completely.  Luckily we make a backup every night so it was easy to restore...uh not so much. 

The server had to basically be trashed, as I understand it.  GoDaddy basically told me it was my fault that my server crashed on me while I was asleep and that I was responsible and that to get it back would be $75.00 per hour.  I told them to shove it up their ass, in a much more elaborate email, and have since moved the server to a new spot.

We are also purchasing everything we need right now to put all of Kind on it's own, in house, server.  Thank god.  This basically means superior up time, stability and speed once we get everything in place.  Which will be about a month from now.

So that is pretty much it, on those ends.  Other posts will have details on the new site.

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