“Once again I give you thanks for your merciful love, kindest Lord, for having found
another way of arousing me from my inertia.”
--
St. Gertrude the Great
The epitome of progressivism. The idea that everything must always be changing, moving “forward” to something “better,” rejecting any concept of objective quality, but often only ending up making what was once good little more than a piece of junk.
[...] perfectly well, SiteMeter turned their hit-counter service into something completely unusable. The Anchoress: Unusable…Awful. I’ll have to find a new product. Ann Althouse: This is the worst [...]
[...] version of its popular web-traffic system this weekend, and the results were …, well, poor in the extreme. How could they misunderstand their market so badly? Internet customers want open [...]
I’ll second (third) Statcounter. It has its glitches and login/logout blips, but it works 95% of the time and has everything that the average person could want so long as your site can handle javascript.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I’ve switched over to Statcounter: http://www.statcounter.com
So far, so good.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
The epitome of progressivism. The idea that everything must always be changing, moving “forward” to something “better,” rejecting any concept of objective quality, but often only ending up making what was once good little more than a piece of junk.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I’m a big fan of statcounter.com for all my stat counting needs…
September 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
As soon as i got “migrated” I haven’t been able to get back in it.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
[...] perfectly well, SiteMeter turned their hit-counter service into something completely unusable. The Anchoress: Unusable…Awful. I’ll have to find a new product. Ann Althouse: This is the worst [...]
September 14th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Wordpress!!
September 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
They’re rolling back to the previous version.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Yep, it sucketh much.
Perhaps they could have actually canvassed some of their users ahead of time (a radical concept called a “beta test”).
What a freaking debacle.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
[...] version of its popular web-traffic system this weekend, and the results were …, well, poor in the extreme. How could they misunderstand their market so badly? Internet customers want open [...]
September 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I’ll second (third) Statcounter. It has its glitches and login/logout blips, but it works 95% of the time and has everything that the average person could want so long as your site can handle javascript.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Sitemeter to Revert to Former System…
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September 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
[...] I: Glad I am not the only one who does not like this new [...]
September 14th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Get Clicky!
September 14th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I agree. It sucks. Royally.
I’ve switched to BlogPatrol.com. Easy, readable, clear.