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Uhm, if the owner of the site is here, the “random” button presents you with an xml.
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Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.
Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?
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Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.
Upon page load the website makes a call to the /rand.php endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.
<script>
$.get("/rand.php",function(data){
$('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data);
});
</script>
(lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.