• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      71·
      4 miesiące temu

      Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.

      Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        4 miesiące temu

        Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.

        Upon page load the website makes a call to the /rand.php endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.

        (lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.

          • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            4 miesiące temu

            the extra comic panel was introduced as an incentive to do so - you would see it after voting

            We’re talking about the “random” comic link.