Random Save Button

  • Aegis12314
    12th Jun 2014 Member 6 Permalink

    So i was thinking to myself, "what if i don't know what i want when i search through tpt, maybe if i had a button that gave me something completely random then i could discover unsung great saves or completely terrible ones"

     

    So how about in the save browser a button that brings up a completely random save? what does everyone think?

    Edited once by Aegis12314. Last: 12th Jun 2014
  • Cocoa_Bits
    12th Jun 2014 Member 2 Permalink

    Maybe good.. In just one click. You can find not discovered great saves or the terrible/bad saves. :)

  • Protcom
    12th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    Or use the script console and type !load random

    Edited once by Protcom. Last: 12th Jun 2014
  • tery215
    12th Jun 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    @Protcom (View Post)

     Doesn't work..

     

    Support.

    Maybe the button would fit in with by Votes and by Date.

  • Aegis12314
    12th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    I really thought the idea could work, because i was on tpt today and thought, "i really want a save from out of nowhere"

  • FeynmanLogomaker
    12th Jun 2014 Member 2 Permalink
    Good thing I made exactly what you're describing a while ago.
    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=17860&PageNum=0#Message=256925
  • NF
    12th Jun 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    @Aegis12314 (View Post)

    I support this button very much.

  • Schicko
    12th Jun 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    @FeynmanLogomaker (View Post)

     Could you maybe add another button which when clicked would allow us to view the initial preview box which has the comments section, description and saveid clicky at the bottom? That would be great!

     

    (Edit) Question: would you happen to know why instead of displaying the usual 404 save in the event of trying to open saveids linked to saves that don't exist anymore, it instead loads a version of @gunz 's choose a logo save?

     

     

    Edit2: Could you also add an option that would let us decide the range of the number it would generate? I.e., if say I put a range of 10000-20000 it would only generate save ids from 10000-20000. This would be useful if we want to see saves from a particular era.

    Edited 2 times by Schicko. Last: 12th Jun 2014
  • Aegis12314
    12th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @Schicko I think your Edit2 is also good, but could be typed in the search bar?

    Edited once by Aegis12314. Last: 12th Jun 2014
  • jacob1
    12th Jun 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Schicko (View Post)
    no idea, it's a bug that Simon tried fixing once but couldn't figure out, and opted to just do nothing instead of inserting a hack to fix it.

    I deleted the save, lets see what happens now :P. Seems to still redirect to it even though it shouldn't exist ...