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Bug on Random from category (https://meta.codidact.com/ca)

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In the page, there's a ad type which is "Random from category". The image link look like this :

https://meta.codidact.com/ca/category/X.png
Replace X with the category ID

Category ID of Q&A in Codidact meta is 3. So, the link look like this

https://meta.codidact.com/ca/category/3.png

The title of the ad is saying random from category but, when I visit above link than I just can see newest question (Even, after asking the question I just can see the following picture).

ad

I think it is just show hot post not random post.

The feature maybe this. But, according to the comment there's some bug. That's why I am marking it as bug.

1 hours later when checked that link again this question's title had shown. That's also on hot post

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luap42‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Can't repo right now; image shows the "mark read" question for me right now. I suppose there is some activity check for the image selection, but I'm not 100%-ly sure and will look later and add a response here.

Canina‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

https://meta.codidact.com/ca/category/3.png shows Ability pages 404 when logged out unless they're for a specific user ("?for=" in the URL) (another hot post) for me now, so there's clearly some degree of randomness involved at least.

deleted user wrote over 3 years ago

@Canina I think it changes few hours later. Cause, when I first checked that was showing me community-promoted...... when i checked one hours later it was showing When clicking "mark read" it shows a 0 when..... When I checked again (now) Ability pages 404.... was showing. So, it is changes in few hours