Finally, the true Mint 2.0 compatible Trends has been released. I’ve spent the last week or so looking over what the new Mint 2.0 API can do, and utilized what made sense in Trends. Inside Trends 3.0 you’ll find Mint 2.0’s new on-the-fly time interval switching on every tab. This will hopefully make it easier to get the specific data you’re after. I’ve noticed this has come particularly handy on the New / Old tabs. By being able to change the time on the fly, you can find those pages which have recently been created but just aren’t popular enough to make the Popular tab.
Besides the new time changing ability, Trends has a few more tricks up its sleeve. It now supports hourly page history (a previous limitation). This will help when you’re taking advantage of the time changing ability. Also, the page history will stop displaying rows when the rest will be zero (a problem when comparing by weeks and having a limited database size). Finally, a number of nasty bugs have been squashed that have somehow slipped past Brett and myself through the version we’ve released. Most notably the time on the New and Old tabs was horribly off.
I hope you enjoy this new version. If you have any more suggestions about what you’d like to see in Trends, keep them coming. You can download Trends 3.0 in Mint’s Peppermill, the only place it will be available from here on out.
