Follow up to https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/704:
Seems to be that locale.module remembers the path at which the translated string was first seen, then provides a path to that location? Perhaps that's so that you can try and find if a string is used on that page. However... not very useful for something like site_name which is literally on every page. If we can find a way to suppress this behavior when strings are translated through config, that would be preferable. Most config strings will probably be shown in lots of places (e.g. field labels and descriptions, view names, block titles, etc)
For reference, in D8 there's now a separate table for locale location and it better represents config strings:
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That would actually be a nice usability improvement. A lot of people already build search pages with Views, so having an easier way to convert the default search results into a View would make...
[UX] Convert search to a view.
Try using caching in the View settings, set to 24 hours. This should work for anonymous site visitors. I haven't tested this in practice, so this is just a guess.
View to show a different node each day
Have you already played with Views random seed? I belief, what you try to achieve would work with that module. Show only one node and set the sort order to "Global: Random seed" with "...
View to show a different node each day