MG 2.0 Random media widget

[abdfahim]

My Random media widget shows same 5 images, no matter how many times I refresh the page, though I have 10 images in my gallery. Display from categories is set at all category.

Isn't the purpose of showing random media is to show random images everytime the page is loaded?

 

[abdfahim]

Oh, now I set individual categories as "Display from categories", it's working as expected. Thanks.

 

[Chris D]

Also the random images are actually cached for a period of time for performance reasons (MySQL sucks at sorting randomly) there should still be some variance - at least the order of the images should vary. But realistically the random option is really not great if there’s only a small amount of images in the gallery. Naturally you will see more repetition with a smaller pool of items to select from.