ID Page showing only one page of observations when order is set to "Random"

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Platform: Web via Mac

Browser: Firefox 145.0

URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&taxon_id=1

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Description of problem:

When the ID page is sorted by “Random” it does not show that there are additional pages of observations to ID, nor provide the buttons to advance to those pages.

Step 1: Search for Animals needing IDs, see that there are thousands of pages of them.

Step 2: Sort by “Random,” see that there are no buttons to move to additional pages.

Step 3: Manually add “&page=2” to end of URL and see that another page of observations to ID comes up, but again the part of the page indicating that there are multiple pages of observations is missing.

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This isn’t a bug, it’s an intentional design. As the results are random, we’re not paginating them. It’s always been like this when sorting by Random.

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The ‘View More’ button will allow you to see more observations.

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4

Thank you! Weird that I never noticed before!

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