The new calendar is hung on the wall and it's time to take stock of the past year.
In 2025, 3,596 users registered on the vint.ee and 7,672 tournaments took place.
Major updates in 2025
- At the beginning of the year, we got significantly better (harder) at playing draughts with the computer .
- To celebrate our 18th birthday, we released our entire statistics history .
- One big leap forward in terms of security and reliability was the move of vint.ee to Cloudflare . True, Cloudflare had a couple of incidents towards the end of the year where they took down half of the world's internet, but overall we have still won. There have been no cyberattacks for half a year and the total server traffic has decreased significantly (Cloudflare itself responds to most requests regarding static content (images and files)).
- We also took big steps to become a more international site: We moved all content pages and translation phrases used on the site into a database, which now allows for real-time translation of the site. In addition , we translated the entire forum history , and now all new posts are automatically translated.
- We invested some time in improving the lives of chess players and made several changes to the way chess is played .
- There were also exciting developments in sudoku: First, Sudokus can now be printed , and in December, sudokus that were hand-compiled by Tiit Vunk could be solved in the sudoku advent calendar. For this, the functionality for compiling sudokus had to be developed, which we hope we can use more in the future.
- At the end of the year , we released streaks functionality , which could motivate our users to visit the vinti every day and play a few games here. Practice makes perfect!
- To sum up, the year 2025 is also not over and beyond the development of AI from the perspective of developer tools . Based on personal experience, I can say that the development of AI has made the development of vint.ee significantly faster and better. You no longer have to think up solutions for different user interfaces yourself, but AI can propose and implement best practices itself.
A total of 186,585 man-hours were played on the vint.ee portal in 2025.
The top 6 games were:
- Sasku - 31351 man-hours
- Sudoku - 30027
- Chess - 21490
- Draughts - 19192
- Thousand - 15231
- Bridge - 11777
We'll also highlight one more exciting number (which we haven't revealed before):
Namely, vint.ee distributed 30,956 credits to its users in 2025!
Credit was received within a year then
- Best in tournament series
- Daily leaderboards
- The best in nightly VIP freerolls
What will 2026 bring?
- We need to start investing more in social media . To be in the picture and remind our users that a great mental sports portal exists. I actually took one step today - I created the vint__ee Instagram account . Let's try to make 100 posts this year!
- An exciting idea came to me last night while sitting in the hot tub - our users have spent a lot of time in the pool and achieved various great records. We could display these achievements on the user profile ! I probably don't even know / remember which records I've set in which games - it would be great if they were all listed in one place!
- We would also like to make Vinti a more social platform where people can communicate more with each other. I don't know if our users would like to upload pictures to Vint and start commenting on them, but friend lists could be something beneficial. Why not display information about who has visited your profile . Highlighting the most popular profiles? The previous point about displaying achievements would definitely help here. In addition - if you just managed to play a nice game of checkers or set a record in solving sudoku - you could generate it into a short video with one click and share it on your Facebook / Instagram account. You could see the birthdays of usernames in the big hall, anniversaries could be celebrated in a more special way.
- If we want to be a truly international environment, we need to invest more in internationalisation: The event calendar needs to become multilingual, and game comments and profile posts could also be automatically translated .
- And of course, we can always find the energy and motivation to bring a new game to the table. Here we could mention Scrabble or Minesweeper. Or some other good idea will come up during the year. We have developed our platform to be flexible enough to develop all kinds of exciting games here.
I would also like to thank all of our supporters and VIP users - you keep this portal running!
I wish everyone an exciting and fun-filled New Year!
Marten Meikop
Founder of Vint.ee
