IIRC there were plans to do this for Danbooru 2, if it's ever actually launched.
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evazion said:
IIRC there were plans to do this for Danbooru 2, if it's ever actually launched.
That's good to hear, but the way you make it sound its like danbooru 2 won't ever launch... On a side note, I hope Albert plans on implementing order:random search tag in the next upgrade.
Action_Kamen said:
On a side note, I hope Albert plans on implementing order:random search tag in the next upgrade.
Albert closed the trac about that five months ago as wontfix.
RaisingK said:
Albert closed the trac about that five months ago as wontfix.
Despite it being incredibly useful and completely possible to implement efficiently.
edit: reopened the ticket cause I can.
Updated by Coconut
Coconut said:
Despite it being incredibly useful and completely possible to implement efficiently.
That looks like a single query into a single table. Does that still apply to more complicated tag searches?
And what about pages in a search? Treat them as entirely separate searches (making the page system pointless), or somehow keep track of all posts in the previous pages?
Keep in mind that the page-1000+ system is broken when the order isn't ID-descending...
Updated by RaisingK
True, that does look like a single table query, but even if it's only a little bit better in our case, the standard random query is already reasonable. The random button on Mr_GT's profile is reasonably snappy.
Pages would be unnecessary, I'd say. The only merit would be that different pages would contain guaranteed unique images, which isn't really that big a deal. The primary use-case of order:random would be to look for interesting images from within a very large set, so the odds of a post coming up multiple times should be low anyway.