Random thread option?

[tapwater]

I was just thinking about how on wikipedia you can click a button and it'll send you onto a random article on their website, and thought that could maybe be a cool idea for here too. It could range from threads, articles, etc. I also think it would be a good way to find pages you may never have thought to look for before, and come across some good information you might have missed otherwise.

 

[YellowGuppy]

Bonus points if there's the option to see, for example "random thread from this week" or "top threads of the month" or whatever (perhaps tallied by total reacts or posts?) so you don't end up with someone's stocking question from 2012 that never received a response.

 

[mattgirl]

Maybe I don't understand but isn't this what the "Did you know" does? I know it has taken me to some threads and information I hadn't thought to look for before.

 

[tapwater]

Maybe I don't understand but isn't this what the "Did you know" does? I know it has taken me to some threads and information I hadn't thought to look for before.

Not exactly. The Did you know? section is a randomized section of things Mike (I'm assuming) has written out and provided links to, while what I'm talking about would take you to a completely random, not pre-selected by a admin or mod, page within the site. This would be similar to wikipedia's random article feature/
Here's a link to an image to help illustrate what I'm talking about: https://slackerize.com/wp-content/uploads/wikipedia-random-article.png

 

[StarGirl]

I was wondering what you guys were talking about too. Gotcha now. I was thinking Isn't that the Search button? lol

 

[Mike]

That is a cool idea and I'd really like to find a way to highlight some of the great threads we've had here over the years but... I don't see any sort of randomized threads thing in the "widgets" section for xenforo. So that would be custom development and I don't want to add anything right now because of an upgrade that is coming soonish.

After the upgrade maybe we can make a thread asking for input on some of the top threads here and then I could randomize those threads like I did for that "Did you know" box.

EDIT: Actually I'll make a thread in General Discussion asking for input from everyone on great threads and then I can just grab those thread links and make the widget once we get a handful of them.

EDIT #2: Here is that thread: Great threads on Fishlore | General Discussion Forum | 495568