EDIT 09-22-2023: This morning, Lucky Draw worked briefly and then stopped working again, so I've changed this to a bug since it seems more like a glitch than an intentional change now.

A while back, Zep added a "Lucky Draw" sort to the BBS cart mode view that would pull in a not quite random assortment of cartridges based on a behind-the-scenes algorithm. You could get to it using this link: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7#sub=0&page=1&mode=carts&orderby=lucky or in SPLORE by switching to Lucky Draw.

I'm not sure how popular or even well-known it was, but it's been my go-to cart discovery method since it was created. I check it a few times a week to find interesting looking carts I haven't seen or played before. As of this morning though, it seems to be either gone or broken (it just returns a blank content area - if you change "lucky" to "ts" in the link above, you get cart view sorted by new as usual). It also doesn't work in SPLORE in PICO-8 0.2.5g, with an error saying "Could Not Connect To BBS" if you try to update the list.

On the web, I'm on Firefox 117.0.1 on Linux. Not seeing any errors in the browser dev tools. Anyone else use this and notice it not working anymore? I'm hesitant to call this a bug since it feels more likely that it was removed on purpose. If it's gone, I'll miss it!

+1 not working for me in splore either, and I too found it quite valuable for discovering new carts.

I'm also in this boat.

@megashub @pico-8 Gamer It actually seems to be working again for me this morning! Maybe it was just a glitch after all?

EDIT: OK, it worked once and then stopped again. I'm going to change this to Bug since now I think it's not intentional.