Vint.ee got a new design and became an international gaming environment

Hello and Happy New Year 2022!

New design
At the end of last year, a major project was completed on the 15-year-old portal vint.ee: In two years, the entire environment got a new design. The project codename was Vint.ee 3.0 . Playing on mobile has become significantly better. If you haven't tried it yet, I recommend it! The number of mobile users is also on the rise at the moment, with a growth of 22% -> 32% over the year. Last year, we rebuilt the entire game space and I would like to thank all users for their patience - there were several errors in the first version and fixing them took quite a while. By now, the game space should be working well for all users!

International user community
The portal vint.ee has several unique functionalities on a global scale. For example, we regularly host international gomoku, rendžu and othello tournaments. Vint.ee has already been translated into 11 languages ! International interest is also visible in the numbers: While in 2020 there were 14% of users outside Estonia, in 2021 this number was already 25% !
Most popular countries in 2021:

1. China - 17,700 unique users!
2. Russia - 5300
3. USA - 4000
4. Brazil - 1600
5. Finland - 1500
6. Japan - 1000

Las Vegas gaming room
After a long time, we brought two new games to Vint: Video Poker and Black Jack . We put these games in the same room as Texas Holdem and called the room Las Vegas!

We are moving towards a more formal and professional image
Various large online tournaments have already taken place on the vint.ee portal: European and world championships, Estonian (and Ukrainian!) internal championships. In the future, what will distinguish us from other gaming portals is that official online tournaments are played here, where people play under their own names. To support this functionality, we introduced verified user accounts and tournaments designed only for them. At least chess players have already adopted this mindset - in the last chess tournament series, 19 users out of the TOP 20 played under their own names! In addition, we took a step against cyberbullying and banned anonymous chat and forum posts - in the future, users who are either verified (name published in the profile) or VIP users (the person's name is known to the vint.ee team) will be able to speak.

The year 2021 in numbers
During the year, Vint was visited 848,000 times and the average session length was 23 minutes and 48 seconds. In total, 336,000 hours were spent on Vint! It is also noteworthy that for the first time, the number of our unique visitors reached six figures - 115,700 unique users!

The most popular game was still sasku , followed by chess , sudoku , and checkers .
Compared to 2020, the biggest increase was of course Othello: While 392 man-hours of Othello were played in 2020, in 2021 it was already 10,654 hours !

6670 accounts were registered and 10749 tournaments took place during the year!

What will 2022 bring?
If you look at our new ideas forum, the priorities could be:

• Fix bugs in existing games ( Texas Holdem , sasku , double tournaments )
• Maybe we'll even be able to bring in some new games. Keywords could be Bridge and Scrabble.
• Making a vint.ee mobile app could also be a separate topic!

I would like to thank all users, and especially our supporters and VIP users, without whom this portal would not exist.

In addition, I wish everyone an exciting year full of good ideas!

Marten Meikop
Founder of Vint.ee

Development is always a good thing, especially when it is moving in the right direction. The new design, which despite many suggestions, was still made based on users with phones and their interests, is not the best according to the old-timers and in any case is a functional step back for regular/computer users! 1 example: to see the tournament standings, you have to "step" back to the starting room and often scroll there to find out what position you are in at the moment, this is especially important before the last rounds! A complete step back! I am very happy with the new design of some of the game rooms - Chess, Checkers, Doubles, even Sudoku, but at the same time I absolutely do not like the old "traps" that have been introduced! In other words, Casino, in its most vulgar and retro-styled cheap menu. Vint.ee could still find more normal moves to find money! If you don't know, ask specialists for advice
Now about verification. So, beak closed: tail open! That people agree to show their name, but not their pseudonym, which is completely logical, and differently, that people agree to play with a pseudonym on this site, but do not want these 2 things to be combined! So!: The so-called verified person chooses for himself whether he wants to link his pseudonym to his real name, it must be voluntary!! If you verify yourself, the requirement that your real name also appear on this site is completely illegal!! Believe it or not, but this order must be fixed!!

Russian flags are out here these days.

Which country killed women and children in the Vietnam War? Who were the allies of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War and left Soviet soldiers in Estonia to keep the peace so that the fascists would not come to Estonia again? Who took possession of the areas behind Narva, Pechersk, and Pskov for 3 months (they even organized a victory parade there) under the name of a liberation operation (like Russia does in Ukraine now) in the War of Independence? Associate Professor, if you dare to answer me honestly, then the flags of Great Britain, the USA, Russia, and the Republic of Estonia should be removed from here.

I forgot to mention Germany, its flags should also be removed from Vind.