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Mint has been released

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Tuesday Sep 6 2005

It's out! First observation: KILLER looks! The best looking stats program I've ever seen. Minor downside: it uses MySQL. Major downside: No Internet Explorer support. Come on Shaun... that's like 80-90% of the browser market. It sucks but you just can't ignore it! Prepare for a review from a coder's perspective as soon as I can! I already purchased a license so it won't take long!

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At 06 September '05 - 09:57 weefselkweekje wrote:
Erm.. am i missing something here? Mint may look nice, but it seems to offer all the same stats that other packages do. I’m not going to pay 30 bucks for it’s looks when there are so many free packages that give you the same info.

I’ll find me a screenshot and hang it on the wall…
At 06 September '05 - 10:39 Marco wrote:
I like it. I guess that’s the only reason necessary to buy it. There are also free blogging tools but yet people purchase Movable Type. There’s a gazillion similar examples that can be given
At 06 September '05 - 14:02 weefselkweekje wrote:
I can tell you’re a mac fan, you buy things for the way they look ;)
At 06 September '05 - 14:09 Simon wrote:
Hehe, and I just joined the mailing list of Mint 2 days ago… Lol…

Anyway, it sounds ok, but there’s no demo available yet… I already think it’s quite expensive, but without seeing a working demo first I’m not buying it…

Does the price include upgrades/updates or not?
At 06 September '05 - 14:43 Marco wrote:
@weefselkweekje> Not entirely true. I like it also because it’s limited functionality is just right for me. In fact all I’m interested in is how much visits I get per day / week, which pages are read most and some other statistics. I also like my stats spam-free. I installed ShortStart as soon as it was released and I liked it more than any other stats program.

Why? It’s sheer simplicity and the fact that it gives me all the information I need. Mint is simply a highly improved incarnation of a stats app I already liked.

You can argue about the price and the per-site license and there are some other ‘loose ends’ but all in all I think it’s nice enough for me to justify the 25 euro’s (gotta love that cheap dollar) I paid for it. So sure, I’m a sucker for good looking things (and women too) but looks aren’t the only reason I decided to get Mint.

I plan to write a more in-depth review soon, addressing not only the cool wiz-bang features but the flaws and drawbacks as well. No one’s perfect, not even if he’s Shaun Inman.
At 06 September '05 - 22:27 Max wrote:
Arr, spending $30 to look at a prettyfied stats page — yes, Shaun has a sure hit amongst the blogging crows =]

Even though I’m a Mac user as well as someone who likes all things pretty, I’m sure as shit not spending that kind of money on (limited) stats. I’m a fan of functionality first, great looks (distant) second.
At 06 September '05 - 22:29 Max wrote:
crows should be crowds, of course. Silly me.

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