I know it requires a lot of changes, but really, there is a field in "cur" for the **random page** feature... why not a field for the page creation date, which can be used for a lot of things (especially for a blog extension ;-) or a lot of other extensions that I can't think of yet)
Reactions? (no I didn't criticised the supremely useful random page feature:-))
François
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