Probably the least of FACs problems

SmilinJuanValdez · Member Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 63

I've noticed that the random submissions link doesn't appear to be very random. It often shows the same pictures over and over and even shows the same artist multiple times on a single page. The random selector seems to be stuck in a rut.

Stratadrake · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject:

Indeed. Right now it generated a page full of all very old pictures.

Denis, can you check how it is selecting the pictures for bugs?
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cstdenis · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:26 am Post subject:

The random submissions system is not completely random because if done as completely random is takes too much processing power on the database server.

Right now, it basically selects a random picture, then shows the next 25 after it.

Now that the DB server has been upgraded I can look into making it actually random again tho.

cstdenis · Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:26 am Post subject:

I have reprogrammed the random selection to use a new method that should generate better results almost as efficently.

SmilinJuanValdez · Member Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 63

You can really see a difference! Thx ctsdenis.