Follow-up of #2040 which changed the expected behavior for site builders/admins. Since it is likely to upset a portion of users (the ones that are using Backdrop to build and maintain sites - these are the ones we are trying to get to adopt Backdrop), it'd be best to follow up with a more solid/intuitive solution:
I think that when error messages are disabled, showing an error badge in the admin bar would be gold for site admins. We'd be putting existing, recently added functionality (badges) to good use and upsetting admins less with our choice of end-user-favoring defaults.
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You might need to add a Relationship in the View to Flags. Or there might be a setting on the content type. I can't recall for certain but I think it's possible.
No Flag fields in Views
Try using caching in the View settings, set to 24 hours. This should work for anonymous site visitors.
View to show a different node each day
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.