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DiceStack

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About

Fetches a random question from a StackExchange site of your choice. I may add some filtering options later.

License

Free-to-use webapp. Source not available.

Features

  • Ability to filter by tags (no auto-completion yet, though), score and answer status

Contact

My email address is in my profile.

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awesome, 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 though – Jeff Atwood♦ Sep 28 '10 at 23:53
Bou how can I access that application? – chanchal1987 Sep 29 '10 at 20:09
@chanchal1987: Click the link at the top of the page. – Gelatin Sep 29 '10 at 20:49
@Simon Brown Thanks – chanchal1987 Sep 29 '10 at 20:50

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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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Thanks, I'll consider it. – Gelatin Sep 28 '10 at 23:07
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. – Gelatin Oct 10 '10 at 21:23
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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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I'd recommend filtering by answered/unanswered as a very useful first filter option.

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This seems to bring up closed questions as well as questions that have been migrated off the site.

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I'd love it to bring up x questions. Is that possible?

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