This has broken the random functionality on my rdx for Reddit app and possibly other apps. They keep breaking one feature or another and it’s getting hard to maintain the app now.
They also removed these other features:
1/ Subdomain subreddit redirect: This is where “<anything>.reddit.com” is currently redirected to “reddit.com/r/<anything>”, 2. r/random, r/randnsfw, r/myrandom, and reddit.com/random 3. old.reddit.com Snoovatars 4. Saving posts and comments with category or by subreddit.
The don’t even announce it on announcements. This is the post https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1fojw02/cleaning_up_some_lowusage_features/
Does this functionality exist on lemmy yet? I would like a random and a random-nsfw feed that samples the entire fediverse.
It does with Sync for a Lemmy, sadly the app is busted with most instances I guess.
Yes, on the next release! I requested it a while back and it was implemented, but it just barely didn’t make the cut for the current release
There’s no random NSFW (yet), but you can get random for local communities, which would work on an NSFW instance
Not sure if it’s just per client but Voyager has a “random community” button on the search tab.
It’s a little cludgy because it’s a hack, it really only works well on lemmy.world. There is a new API end point in the next version of Lemmy though, and Voyager will use that if your instance is upgraded.
Starter idea: it could conceivably fit in the Sort Type dropdown - respects the other settings (Subscribed/Local/All, Posts/Comments) and just throw results through a
RAND()(sic) function.