I find this absolutely hilarious and fascinating.
Mint, a php-based web-stats application released recently, received a lot of encouraging comments. If you know about this new hype around it, you might have noticed that all the “elite” accessibility designers (Shaun Inman, Mike Davidson, etc) have been using Mint for quite a while now, creating a private group that outsiders want to get in badly. After this little program was released, many people congraduated Shaun Inman (the maker of Mint) on the greatest creation on the web.
Now this kid pops up and throws out some undeniably true statements about Mint. Read the comments — see how so many members of that elite group put out come-backs as if that blog entry was directed towards them? Jacob, owner of BloggingPro, steps in and takes the stand of the innocent kid who is being bombarded with all the ugly crap.
It’s like in 1998, when the few oddities who discovered the brilliance of Macs and became the center of the blaming and insults.
Ah. Everyone is having a spazz-a-thon over there. Esp. Mike Davidson. Amazing how full grown adults can suddenly turn into whining kicking little children. Good times.
Hilarious.
Well in the video it does look quite good, but if you have a slow(er) computer some of those sliding menus may start to get really annoying! I would guess it took more time to develop the menus than it did to create the script for creating the stats!
Anthony Yeung: What you call “Spaz-a-thon”, I call accountability. If you spread bullshit on the web, be prepared to get called on it.
I don’t mind being the caller, in case you couldn’t tell.
Leo, with that guess, you would be wrong. That’s a canned effect I’ve used on a number of projects to date.
It’s uninformed judgments like this that everyone is (rightly) getting their panties in a bunch over.
Speaking from a neutral stand, I just purchased Mint (http://mtsix.com/mint/) and it works great as a stats tool. All the client-side features including the Ajax functions are very coherent with the actual stats and are a very important part of the application.