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.
Not for me. Did you maybe find an easter egg?
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?
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.phpendpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.<script> $.get("/rand.php",function(data){ $('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data); }); </script>(lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.
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We’re talking about the “random” comic link.