"Random" new card order does absolutely nothing — same cards first every single time, no matter what I try (v3 scheduler)

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@ArsenioLupin

“pittoresk”

Off topic but interesting choice. FYI, if you are learning german and don’t specifically need this word, you could drop it. As a german, I don’t think I have seen or heard “pittoresk” being used, ever.

@ArsenioLupin

Searching the forum I found several other people reporting what looks like the same symptom (e.g. “V3 Scheduler random not working”, “Anki unable to pick up new cards at RANDOM order”)

I’ll just post the links here as a service for others that may want to read those:

V3 Scheduler random not working

In testing things to make a video, I found I cannot get “random” to work on the new card sort order. I can get pretty much everything else working, but I never get the cards randomized. Just wanted to bring this to your attention @dae in case it hasn’t been mentioned yet

Anki unable to pickup up new cards at RANDOM order

I have so much trouble in getting Anki present new cards at random order. I have this options <I’ll paste in next post, there;s some limit> And it seems to work initially. But If I make any shifting of cards between decks (typically combining items into one bigger deck), this starts to fail and is not random at all. The only thing that works for me is using “Random Sequential Order” - this shows a warning that it is not recommended with v3 scheduler. But this in turn requires me to turn this …