Media Gallery Widget "random media" breaks widget

[🔥Iggy🔥]

Affected version

2.3.3

hello,
am i missing something here?
seems like a bug, i cant imagine what config could prevent that...
"latest media" works, "random media" makes the widget not display.

kind regards

 

[Deleted member 184953]

How many medias in your Gallery?

 

[🔥Iggy🔥]

you know i was just wondering that....it may not be enough to be "random" but i thought it would at least show what there is like the latest media one....its enough to slide, but yeah hmm...

 

[Deleted member 184953]

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MG 2.2 Thread 'Widget carousel media bug ? Or not...'

Nov 19, 2021

Hello,

How many photos minimum is needed in a category for the widget to be set to random images?

Because I have a widget set to random image and there are 11 photos in the category, and the widget should display 6 but most of the time it shows only one, two, three, sometimes 4 but never all 6. It even happens that it does not display any photos and there it completely disappears from its location. With a setting on recent images no problem.

Thanks !

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[🔥Iggy🔥]

oh yes thank you...that seems to explain why xf will rather not show it than show it broken....is there an official min # for random to work by now?

regards

 

[Deleted member 184953]

is there an official min #

Nope.

 

[ekool]

Bump, and my reply from the other thread: I'm running into this same issue. This is legitimately broken behavior. At least let the user set a toggle that says to use the high performance way that's easier on the server, or the way that works properly all the time.

 

[🔥Iggy🔥]

how i understand it, "the way that works properly all the time" is having enough media files....which we dont exactly know how many so it seems like you just have to test it sometimes.....with our larger filesystem its never once been a problem but trying to do custom sliders from only one category or such doesnt really work..

regards

 

[ekool]

how i understand it, "the way that works properly all the time" is having enough media files....which we dont exactly know how many so it seems like you just have to test it sometimes.....with our larger filesystem its never once been a problem but trying to do custom sliders from only one category or such doesnt really work..

regards

The way they have it just makes zero sense, and is broken. It's not 100% broken, but it's still broken.

 

[🔥Iggy🔥]

im still trying to determine the number required to perform random.....it seems like several thousand....like something around 10k?.....its a little unreasonable really, would be really nice to see this code improved.

The way they have it just makes zero sense, and is broken. It's not 100% broken, but it's still broken.