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What is the 'lottery' button for?

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While browsing through different sites I notices the 'Lottery' button in the header of the Posts pages. It shows next to 'Activity', 'Age', and 'Score', so it is indeed a way to order the questions.

The name seems quite straight forward, so I assume it is a kind of 'show me the list of questions randomly', but I just wanted to make sure since I could not find any documentation about it.

Also, what is the number as alt text that shows when hovering? It seems to match the number of questions in the specific category. In any case, I think an improved version could be in a form of:

List the (X) questions randomly.

(I wonder if something like [faq] questions could be included, so documentation keeps being created by users themselves)

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Corsaka‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I've seen this problem with unnecessarily changing the sorting system. "Age" doesn't immediately say "Oldest to Newest" OR "Newest to Oldest". "Lottery" can be worked out but is it really necessary to use it instead of "Random"? We shouldn't cause confusion for the sake of being different.

fedorqui‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@Corsake some alt text will most probably solve the confusion.