Hey everyone, we’d like to announce whats new with AK and the direction were taking with it. Over the years AK has evolved, changed and well, changed again. We’ve come up with a way to keep AK open sourced, free and community driven by creating a blog hosting site. You’re free to create any type of blog relating to anime/manga and it can be adult, just make sure to drop us a line first to check with some steps needed to take.

We’ll be moving the site off this old server on our cabinet to a cloud based system in a week. I’ve ordered a bunch of new servers to create a cloud computing network and once we move the site over, the lag should stop. I don’t know about you, but even being at the office I’ve experienced some slowness with the response of the site.

I’m working on a new front page to display the top stories in the industry for that day as well as all new incoming stories. This will pretty much resemble the tech site techmeme. We’d love for you guys to create groups and community blogs based on anything anime/manga. Your free to include your own manga designs, drawings and or comics. You can also create a fanfiction group or blog if you like, we tried to include many of the basic tools needed in the themes you can select on how to create such sites.

We’re thinking about not only releasing an IRC server for chatting, but a twitter like network for networking in real time only with the anime/manga community. This of course would be an open sourced project using status.net application.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact us at anime.kiosk[at]gmail[dot]com. And yes, you can link to your site/forum in our network, as long as it’s relevant to you, or towards anime/manga categories. Like I said, we’re working on creating a community here and as long as it’s not a fishy type of link or spam, your fine. :)

AK Team