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I was surprised by your post, as I don't recall any discussions about changing that, and then I wondered how to change that. I looked around in the site-level and category-level settings both here...
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Monica Cellio
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2023-07-31T22:54:35Z (9 months ago)
- I was surprised by your post, as I don't recall any discussions about changing that, and then I wondered _how_ to change that. I looked around in the site-level and category-level settings both here and on a community that has the "random" button, and I couldn't find anything.
- Then I got a "no wait, we didn't, did we...?" feeling and checked [the Q&A category here](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/46). Yup -- it has a "random" button. The challenges category does not.
I _suspect_ that when we added this, we thought the obvious utility was for "main" categories and we wanted to exclude Meta. But instead of excluding Meta, I wonder if we hard-wired "Q&A". I'm going to have to do some more digging to find out; this paragraph is all guesswork.And now I'm wondering about other categories. _Should_ all categories, including Meta, support a random sort? It seems like it would make sense for some other non-Q&A categories, like Cooking's recipes.
- I was surprised by your post, as I don't recall any discussions about changing that, and then I wondered _how_ to change that. I looked around in the site-level and category-level settings both here and on a community that has the "random" button, and I couldn't find anything.
- Then I got a "no wait, we didn't, did we...?" feeling and checked [the Q&A category here](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/46). Yup -- it has a "random" button. The challenges category does not.
- I _suspect_ that when we added this, we thought the obvious utility was for "main" categories and we wanted to exclude Meta. But instead of excluding Meta, I wonder if we hard-wired "Q&A". ~~I'm going to have to do some more digging to find out; this paragraph is all guesswork.~~ Found it. Yes, the code special-cases this button to categories named "Q&A".
- And now I'm wondering about other categories. _Should_ all categories, including Meta, support a random sort? It seems like it would make sense for some other non-Q&A categories, like Cooking's recipes. My inclination is to remove that line, not instead change it to "anything but Meta".
#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2023-07-31T22:48:28Z (9 months ago)
I was surprised by your post, as I don't recall any discussions about changing that, and then I wondered _how_ to change that. I looked around in the site-level and category-level settings both here and on a community that has the "random" button, and I couldn't find anything. Then I got a "no wait, we didn't, did we...?" feeling and checked [the Q&A category here](https://codegolf.codidact.com/categories/46). Yup -- it has a "random" button. The challenges category does not. I _suspect_ that when we added this, we thought the obvious utility was for "main" categories and we wanted to exclude Meta. But instead of excluding Meta, I wonder if we hard-wired "Q&A". I'm going to have to do some more digging to find out; this paragraph is all guesswork. And now I'm wondering about other categories. _Should_ all categories, including Meta, support a random sort? It seems like it would make sense for some other non-Q&A categories, like Cooking's recipes.