Okay, so right now, having the tag 'order:random' in a search makes it so you only get one page of random results. You can re-shuffle it by refreshing the page, but you tend to get a lot of repeat images, and quickly lose track of what you've already seen. It gets confusing. I think pages should be enabled, and all images you've already seen get knocked out of the list of possible results. This way, you'd see every image once, and get no repeats.

topic #18140 asked for this and got denied--though that was before the current build.

I can work on the pagination not showing. It was disabled because it gave the wrong impression of progress through pages without offering different results. I added the randseed metatag with the new site, which means that it's now possible to obtain a shuffle like behavior. newt order:random randseed:123 theoretically has a stable sorting order, and changing the number gives you a different configuration. Pagination is still currently disabled if the order is set to random, but I'll see about special casing it if randseed is specified.

P.S. To link to topics, use the topic # dtext instead of forum #. forum # is there to make old posts continue to work, but doesn't have much meaning anymore.

Nice addition. Randomizing by seed should make some tagging projects less tedious...

You might also want to consider using -voted:me to remove images you've already voted on:

order:random randseed:123 -voted:me

I tested, it works.

@KiraNoot: How about a keyword like randseed:rand or randseed:shuffle? User types or clicks that, server generates a random seed and replaces the keyword with it in the URL and search box.