According to a tweet from Moolah, MINT is temporarely offline due to "daemon" issues. They say they have contacted the devs. I have absolutely no idea what a "daemon" issue is but MINT will be back as soon as this is resolved
Mintpal should have rephrased it like this,
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Our new batch of programmers are not really good at their jobs, so can you please have your Mintcoin programmers fix what our programmers broke,
Thank you.
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FYI :
Cryptsy has been working great.
More coins to trade with too.

P.S.
a daemon (/ˈdiːmən/ or /ˈdeɪmən/)[1] is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.