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Every day that we come onto this wonderful site, we see the little section for birthdays of that particular day. I almost always give a quick glance to see if anyone I know is having their birthday, but also almost always forget to click the view all birthdays today button.

 

I am unsure of what method is used to choose which five people will be shown all day, but what I am suggesting, is that there be a randomizer of some sort. That way, on days with say, 15 birthdays, everyone will be on the front page at one point or another.

 

I realize this isnt really a big concern, I am just throwing out the idea.

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It's probably based on something like who joined first to who joined last or something like that because I joined when there was roughly 350 members on the site and that was a while ago.

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  On 2012-12-14 at 12:57 AM, Simcity11100 said:
It's probably based on something like who joined first to who joined last or something like that because I joined when there was roughly 350 members on the site and that was a while ago.

That's how it worked for today's birthdays, the first one in the list joined the earliest, the last one is the latest. I think it'd be fair to have a randomizer, it would give everypony a chance to appear on the front page, even if they're the newest member!


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  On 2012-12-14 at 11:09 AM, Kapi said:
That's how it worked for today's birthdays, the first one in the list joined the earliest, the last one is the latest. I think it'd be fair to have a randomizer, it would give everypony a chance to appear on the front page, even if they're the newest member!
 Well, if that is so, then that presents a disadvantage for many, especcially as you said, new members.  I just skiimed ahead to my birthday, 6 people have birthdays on that day, so I am just getting knocked off the list. I also checked and none of them have been online either in a long time, or were only online to make a few posts and never be heard from again., or have been active contributors to the forum.

 

This just furthers my point for a rotator / randomizer.


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I'd agree that tweaking the birthdays hook is in order, with the sheer number of birthdays MLP Forums has these days. It's a pretty reasonable suggestion. It is not exactly a high-priority task at this time, however, so while Scootacool and I will certainly keep it in mind, there is absolutely no ETA or guarantee we can provide on when/if this can happen.

 

Just wanted to give the acknowledgment that some great ideas were presented here that I can see us implementing at some point. :)

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