DiceStack website
(www.isimonbrown.co.uk/dicestack/)
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Fetches a random question from a Stack Exchange site of your choice.
License
Free-to-use webapp. Source not available.
Features
- Ability to filter by tags, score and answer status
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6awesome, we always get requests for "show me a random question!" I might suggest having a minimum threshold of votes/views to ensure you don't get total junk Qs thoughJeff Atwood– Jeff Atwood2010-09-28 23:53:25 +00:00Commented Sep 28, 2010 at 23:53
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Bou how can I access that application?chanchal1987– chanchal19872010-09-29 20:09:28 +00:00Commented Sep 29, 2010 at 20:09
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@chanchal1987: Click the link at the top of the page.Gelatin– Gelatin2010-09-29 20:49:06 +00:00Commented Sep 29, 2010 at 20:49
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2Seems to have disappeared. I get an empty white screen.TRiG– TRiG2014-05-22 18:23:43 +00:00Commented May 22, 2014 at 18:23
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@TRiG: I guess I need to update it to use the latest API version.Gelatin– Gelatin2014-05-23 21:50:08 +00:00Commented May 23, 2014 at 21:50
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I use your app to look for low quality posts that need cleanup that have gone undetected. Can you bring back the filter that lets me specify a range of votes. So I can select: -20 to 0 ?Eric Leschinski– Eric Leschinski2016-09-03 15:11:08 +00:00Commented Sep 3, 2016 at 15:11
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7 Answers
Hey Simon.
Interesting idea but, in my opinion, given the vast array of topics, for something like this to be engaging you will need to provide a tag selector at the least.
Maintaining a local index of tags, updated daily perhaps, to feed a work-alike tag selector as available on SE sites would be my next step.
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Gelatin
I've added the ability to filter by tags, but decided against auto-completion. As I don't like the idea of regularly going through every page of tags on every site and calling the API as the user types would be slow and hog resources.
It seems that the HTML entities are escaped, in the results. Can this be fixed?
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I'd love it to bring up x questions. Is that possible?
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I'd recommend filtering by answered/unanswered as a very useful first filter option.
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I suggest giving a list of 10/15/20 questions instead of redirecting.
Now I click "Go", wait until the question is loaded and if its not satisfactory I need to go back, click "Go", ... Quite a lengthy process (about 5-6 s). If submitting just gave me a list of 10/15/20 question, I could
- read the titles first,
- open the questions I'm interested in in new tabs.
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Gelatin
I'm not sure if that would be practical, since it would use the API very heavily.
Another feature that could be useful is to ignore some tags. That would help in not getting unwanted questions in sites such as SO.
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This seems to bring up closed questions as well as questions that have been migrated off the site.
