Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25230922-20150704031010/@comment-25941663-20150704171157

Underscorre wrote: The purpose of the special page isn't just to pick a random page, it is what gets the list of threads. It does this by loading an external page (the board page for whatever category's being targeted). This couldn't be done in the template itself, especially if said template was going on the home page, since we're loading two pages in one, we'd effectively be doubling load times on the home page (very bad for the end user). Ah, I thought that the code was getting the threads from the servers' databases or something.

I haven't done much in PHP, so I don't know if it's possible to save these threads in the servers ourselves. If not, then the way it is currently set up is probably the best.