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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: mustang6172 on 21 Dec 2012, 23:02

Title: Random Button
Post by: mustang6172 on 21 Dec 2012, 23:02

It's taking me to random comics.  New random comics!

When did it start working again?

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Dec 2012, 23:08

Two months ago - see this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28279.0.html) (which is still on the first page of Comic threads).

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: mustang6172 on 21 Dec 2012, 23:46

Well now I just feel like a horse's ass.

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Pilchard123 on 22 Dec 2012, 05:59

Do I want to know how you know what a horse's ass feels like?

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: PintsizeForPresident on 22 Dec 2012, 16:15

Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: cesium133 on 22 Dec 2012, 16:16

Quote from: PintsizeForPresident on 22 Dec 2012, 16:15

Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.

Does that make me Hanners-like if I already noticed that?  :psyduck:

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: pwhodges on 23 Dec 2012, 00:45

Why is it even a surprise that two instances of a random function are different?

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: PintsizeForPresident on 23 Dec 2012, 01:23

Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Dec 2012, 00:45

Why is it even a surprise that two instances of a random function are different?

If I'd have programmed it, I would not have made them two different instances, just two copies of the same instance. I think it was implemented in PHP, in which case that is not very hard to do.

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: PintsizeForPresident on 23 Dec 2012, 01:25

Quote from: cesium133 on 22 Dec 2012, 16:16

Quote from: PintsizeForPresident on 22 Dec 2012, 16:15

Not sure if anyone else has noticed, but the random buttons above and below the comic point to *different* random pages.

I'm obviously not counting Hannelore: of course she has noticed, and she probably even refreshed the page over and over until both were the same by accident.

Does that make me Hanners-like if I already noticed that?  :psyduck:

I'm not sure... Did you try refreshing until they were the same?

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Barmymoo on 23 Dec 2012, 03:21

But they probably are both the same - in that they are both programmed to pull up an entirely random comic. I mean, that's what random is.

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Rimwolf on 23 Dec 2012, 06:11

"Ah shit, ah shit, they all fall down" -- recently reported variation

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 23 Dec 2012, 06:24

http://xkcd.com/221/

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Pilchard123 on 23 Dec 2012, 06:25

Quote from: Rimwolf on 23 Dec 2012, 06:11

"Ah shit, ah shit, they all fall down" -- recently reported variation

Wrong thread?  :-D

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: cesium133 on 23 Dec 2012, 08:07

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Dec 2012, 06:24

http://xkcd.com/221/

That's the old random button.

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Dec 2012, 23:51

But the new ones are backwards-compatable...

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: PintsizeForPresident on 28 Dec 2012, 03:57

Only some of the time, and unpredictably so.  :wink:

Title: Re: Random Button
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 28 Dec 2012, 08:17

And getting less so every day.