Random Page Junkie

A person who has so much time and/or is so addicted that reading Recent Changes is not enough^[1] but needs to surf through Senseis by clicking on Random Page all the time.

Known Members:

1. Dieter
2. RP :--)
3. Michael Lesniak
4. Hikaru79
5. Simen
6. Quicksilvre
7. Chris Dams
8. PMurphy
9. Tas
10. tapir (Admitted. I have also a Random Tsumego link in my bookmarks.)
11. Bootmii

See also: Recent Changes Junkies

Tips and tricks

The random page function can be customized to some extent. Instead of using an URL of random=1 you can use phpwiki:?random=key&term=value where

key is one of 'pagetype', 'difficulty', or 'keyword'

value is a matching term, such as 'Homepage' (pagetype,) 'Beginner' (difficulty,) or 'proverb' (keyword.)

You can prepend the term with a dash '-' for a random page for everything but that term.

Value can have more than one term: separate the terms with space (note: spaces in URLs are written as '+').

Examples

• Random Page
• Random joseki page
• Random beginner page
• Random page (but no homepage)
• Random page (but no homepage and no alias)

See also: SL tips and tricks

[1]

Robert Pauli: This would imply that each Random Page Junkie has to be a Recent Change Junkie: not true.

unkx80: Mathematically this is not true, but I suppose this is a reasonable assumption? It is hard to imagine one clicking through random pages all the time before reading the recent changes, no?

Robert Pauli: Why not stay off the main stream for a while ? And, is just looking over RC already being an RC Junkie ? Isn't it rather clicking on each diff there :-)

unkx80: Okay, if you insist. =)

Hikaru79: And here I thought I was the only one :D I love the random page feature so much that it's been added to my SL User Sidebar as well as my toolbar bookmarks on my Firefox browser so whenever I have a free moment, I call up a random page and read :) SL sure is big... it's very rare still to get a page I've thoroughly examined already before ^ ^

Simen: I agree with Robert. Personally, I am a dedicated RP junkie, but not so much a RC junkie. As Hikaru79 points out, SL is big enough to support heavy abuse of the RP feature, and I like the suspense of never knowing what will come next. When the day comes that I seldomly get a new fix from RP surfing, I will have to give in and become a real RC junkie...

Chris Dams: It has been a time since I was on SL for the last time, so maybe I am not so much of a junkie. On the other hand when I am here, I mostly surf through pages using the "Random Page" link. Of course, I ended up here via the RP-link. Actually I think that random pages are more interesting than recently changed pages. Does this make sense?

Fwiffo: Is there any way to exclude problem solutions and attempts from Random Page? They're subpages, so they don't have keywords or page types, and I don't want to just exclude all subpages... I don't like getting spoilers while browsing randomly.

DrStraw: Is it possible to change the Random Page so that it does not offer up solution pages or attempt pages? It is kind of annoying to select a random page and get the answer before the question.