+1 on this
This has been an issue for as long as I can remember.
I maintain a Netflix-like rotation of Collections visible on my Home/Shared Home pages using Kometa and some personal scripts, so this duplication bug is quite annoying and makes scrolling the home page much less inviting
I feel like I remember this being the case for non-Smart collections as well when they were set to Random sort, but this was no longer an issue when I moved all of those to Kometa, that way I’m able to set it to Random Order through Kometa instead, which randomizes the order once as Kometa runs, but Plex sees it as Custom order, so it doesn’t bug out when scrolling on the home page
It’d be great if there were a simple option in Plex settings to decide the frequency of randomization of the Smart Collections
EDIT: been looking this up some more and it seems to be an ongoing bug for the last 4+ years:
- Bug report: Smart Collections Sorted Randomly visible on "Recommended" repeat some movies
- BUG: 3 years now, can we please fix - random sorted hubs showing duplicates
- Collection Visible on Home Screen: When randomly sorted, duplicate movie posters are shown
That was just from one quick search, im sure this issue has popped up elsewhere as well
