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Did anybody try mint?
shaun inman replaced shortstat with mint <a href=“http://www.haveamint.com/”>http://www.haveamint.com/</a>.
I was wondering if anybody here has tryied the software and also if they have managed to make it work with txp.
Yiannis
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#2 2005-11-05 10:34:43
- lee
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
Search mint, some people have used it.
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#3 2005-11-06 01:39:29
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
I couldn’t get at the demo, trying various times and days since it was released. I managed to find a demo someone else had setup:
http://www.wackomenace.co.uk/mint-demo-live/
I poked around but there isn’t much content for the demo, so you can’t really tell if its useful or not. From what I can see, to me it’s awful busy (and without the content too!), presenting too many choices at once. If others like it, okay, but I don’t see myself using it.
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#4 2005-11-06 04:22:12
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
Speaking of Mint, has anyone measured its performance on a busy site? There are a number of reports that Shortstat doesn’t scale well, easily confirmed by a quick review of its code (no indexing!). It’s one of the likely causes of mysterious “Textpattern” performance problems. I wonder if Mint suffers the same problems.
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
Someone here recommended SlimStat – an offshoot of ShortStat. I installed it from scratch and it’s much better then shortstat. From what I see, it uses indexes on the tables.
http://wettone.com/code/slimstat
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
Well thanks to Mary’s link I’ve finally seen the damn thing and I’m wondering what all the fuss is about. I like the styling but you could do all that Minty goodness with ShortStat if you took the time to do it. I already had hacks for weekly and monthly stats and some nice styling as well. I agree with Mary about it being too busy. There’s is a lot there that frankly has little good use. I suppose it appeases the stats-freaks though. Not for me I’m afraid.
I didn’t have much problem with the performance of the old ShortStat zem though thebombsite wasn’t as busy then as it is now. I might just re-install it and see what happens.
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Re: Did anybody try mint?
Stuart, take a look at SlimStat. Its quicker and I like the stats. Not too busy, actually the layout is thoughtfully done.
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I read your first post and have downloaded it to have a look. I’ll see if I can make it look like Mint then sell the CSS for $10.00. How does that sound? ;)
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> jstubbs wrote:
> Someone here recommended SlimStat – an offshoot of ShortStat. I installed it from scratch and it’s much better then shortstat. From what I see, it uses indexes on the tables.
http://wettone.com/code/slimstat
the ‘problem’ is that it does not list search strings yet…
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colak, it does list search strings.
Stuart, who wants all that java script anyway? ;-) But I’d likely pay you the 10 bucks anyway for your hard work!
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How am I doing? There’s not a lot I can do with the “rounded corners” and alternate line colours without going into the main code and hacking it and I don’t fancy doing that. :)
Last edited by thebombsite (2005-11-07 19:21:19)
Stuart
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That looks pretty good Stuart! :D
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