Random thread picker

[SteveDallas]

Share and enjoy.

http://www.deathtongue.net/cellar/random.pl

(note: all this does is pick a random number between 1 and 14678 and plug it in where the thread number goes. The number that comes back may refer to a thread that's been deleted, is in a restricted area, etc. etc.)

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Share and enjoy.

http://www.deathtongue.net/cellar/random.pl

(note: all this does is pick a random number between 1 and 14678 and plug it in where the thread number goes. The number that comes back may refer to a thread that's been deleted, is in a restricted area, etc. etc.)

Thanks, SD. That's a lot easier than what I'd been doing with the spreadsheet. Is 14678 the number of threads as of today?

One interesting thing that I noticed: If I open an old thread, like 2002, it comes up with 15 posts to a page and red borders, but the newer ones are 40 to a page and blue borders, which is what I've set up in my options.

PS -- Is dayafter.jpg posted somewhere in the Cellar?

[xoxoxoBruce]

The dayafter jpg.

[Griff]

SD you are the be all and end all!

[HungLikeJesus]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Share and enjoy.

http://www.deathtongue.net/cellar/random.pl

(note: all this does is pick a random number between 1 and 14678 and plug it in where the thread number goes. The number that comes back may refer to a thread that's been deleted, is in a restricted area, etc. etc.)

SteveDallas, I would like to request two changes to the random thread picker. It creates a link to http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=XXX, where XXX is between 1 and 14678.

1) could you remove the www (i.e. change it to http://cellar.org/...)? For some reason, using the www results in a different format and one where the user (at least for me) is not logged in.

2) Could you increase the upper range to include more recent threads? I don't know what that number should be.