Yeah. I've also noticed this. I think it only happens when multiple GAs are ending at the same time.
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This must be the explanation, because I do see the games in the same order. I believe (unless my faulty memory is now inventing things instead of only forgetting them!) that there was a fix a year or two ago that mostly resolved this issue. It was worse as every page reload gave a different order.
Knowing a fix was put in, I find this continued problem strange/"unforgiveable" because every timestamp that I have ever seen is accurate to a very fine point - perhaps milliseconds. As such, even games ending at the "same" time should (almost) always have a set order among them.
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There's websites I use that duplicate elements when this happens, so I don't mind this.
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That's what happens when you make a SQL query with only 1 sort order... Should be ordered by <first criteria> then one more, like <id> (because you can have multiple giveaways of the same game with the same name).
SELECT * FROM <table> ORDER BY <your sort order>,<id>
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Please see https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/N1vSQIQ.
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If the giveaways have the same value being sorted (e.g. by new), the order is not the same every load.
If someone makes more giveaways than they fit on a single page or their giveaways span 2 pages, then often you see the same giveaway twice (or more) and thus you don't see certain giveaways.
Example of different order sorted by new on 2 page loads:
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