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the random thread button.
#7959026 - 01/31/08 02:36 AM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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how about a button that pulls up a thread at random from the database. A different thread everytime.
what yall think.?
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7959035 - 01/31/08 02:45 AM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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and like the google "im feeling lucky" button, it can say "Im feeling shroomy!".
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7959345 - 01/31/08 07:50 AM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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Awesome! StumbleShroomery FTW
There might be an epidemic of asinine, irrelevant posts though.
OTDers stumbling across MRP threads... will be interesting.
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7960737 - 01/31/08 03:38 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Ythan]
#7960746 - 01/31/08 03:41 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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yay. that didn't take long.
/me starts randomizing.
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Ythan]
#7961018 - 01/31/08 04:47 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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Quote:
Ythan said: Here ya go. 
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/random.html
Awesome Thanx ythan!!!
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7961171 - 01/31/08 05:23 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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why is it only in mush cult?
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its not. Ive had threads pop up from all over.
Its awesome. Ive come accross threads i would have never seen had the button not been there!
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7961207 - 01/31/08 05:34 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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i clicked it like 5 times and it was all mush cult.
and is this link the only way to have the button?
I mean it is awesome to get this, and i am programming illiterate, but would it be so hard just to incorporate it into the actual GUI?
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Quote:
YawningAnus said: why is it only in mush cult?
I'm getting a variety.
Thanks Y -- this is cool.
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Theres a link at the top of the page under the 'invite' button. it has a single die as the icon.
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Edited by sui (01/31/08 05:36 PM)
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: sui]
#7961628 - 01/31/08 07:02 PM (16 years, 1 day ago) |
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love it!
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It doesn't seem to be entirely random...
For example, this thread has popped up four times in twenty or so clicks.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/264823#Post264823
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It's as random as I can make it, but it's not truly random because I had to cheat to get acceptable performance. We have so many posts that I can't just ask MySQL to return a random row. It takes over 5 seconds and locks the database. This is especially problematic because I expect people who are using the 'Random Thread' button to keep hitting it in fairly rapid succession.
So instead, I generate a random number between MIN_POST_NUM and MAX_POST_NUM and then select the first post that's greater than or equal to that number. This only takes a fraction of a second and doesn't adversely affect the server. However, there's a problem with this method which is clear from a simple example: if the post numbers in the database are 1, 3, 4 and 5, then '3' is greater then or equal to both 2 and 3, so it will come up twice as often. Restrictions due to forum permissions and the varying number of replies for each thread create additional 'holes' in the consecutive numbering scheme which further detract from the randomness.
Still, the sheer number of posts should make this effect significantly less noticeable. Having a post come up 20% of the time sounds like a fluke to me, even with all the cheating going on behind the scenes.
(And I bet you thought this was a simple feature. )
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Hey, that thread came up for me too.
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Ythan]
#7963671 - 02/01/08 06:59 AM (16 years, 16 hours ago) |
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Ok, cool
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Ythan]
#7989563 - 02/06/08 10:26 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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What do you think about a random button for active threads? Or newer than a week?
Cool feature either way.
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Cowgold]
#7990073 - 02/07/08 01:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I had a bunch of idea for improving the random thread button, including being able to limit it to new threads, specific forums and certain posters. I wanted to see if it was popular first though. It seems to be getting some use so I'll add that stuff to my to-do list, although not as high priority I'm afraid.
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Re: the random thread button. [Re: Ythan]
#7990105 - 02/07/08 01:18 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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thanks ythan three cocks for you  
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