Get random community

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

I would like a way to fetch a random community

Describe the solution you'd like.

GET /api/v3/community/random?type_=All

Returns:

GetCommunityResponse

Describe alternatives you've considered.

There is no good alternative. You could get a random page of communities, but there is no way to determine the total number of federated communities for a site (you can only determine # of local communities in site aggregates).

Also, page # is being phased out in favor of page cursor (which is good, but will make the above workaround no longer possible)

Additional context

There is definite user interest for this feature with Voyager.