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Answers should take the form of feature requests/modifications that are either obviously beyond the scope of v1 and or have been status-declined or status-deferred

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Move the id value into the query string

In that the id is vectorized, it is designed to represent multiple values.

Currently the id field is a component of the url. This severely constrains the number of records that can be retrieved far below the stated maximum of the max pagesize which is 100.

Another, more serious, implication of this limitation is that, with id in the url, the limit is arbitrary and undefined, which is never a good thing, requiring trial and error to find the max url length in respect to the variable length id, or make many single id requests increasing load on the server.

If the id were a query string component, it is quite possible to issue a request for 100 items even with large id. Currently, using short id values, the server starts issuing errors at ~30 items.

What I would like to see:

/path?id=123;456;789

Which would obviate the necessary hack described here

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User Authentication

This is an obvious one (and a stated goal for V2, I think).

The basics would be for some way to authenticate a user against his StackOverflow/etc user. Also, a way to access the "linked accounts" information would be great (so authenticating a StackOverflow user will automatically give the application knowledge of his other accounts which are linked to the same user).

That last part might be problematic, so some way of letting the user disallow sharing the linked info/informing the user is important.

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  • Do you have a source for the "stated goal for V2" bit? The "I think" bit suggests not, I guess...
    – Charles Stewart
    Commented Dec 22, 2010 at 23:43
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Users's Favorite Tags

Having access to a given user's favorite tags would make it much easier to provide a customized user experience where tailoring to the user's preferences could be automatic.

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  • this one should be an easy expose and does not seem to pose any privacy issues. too bad it didn't get suggested a few weeks ago.
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 7:03
  • this was suggested a while back on the old stack apps beta site and was marked as postponed until v2.
    – lfoust
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 14:00
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The ability to post questions/answers.

This is important for the question-answering robot I'll be making.

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  • Was I right in interpreting the second sentence of your answer as a joke? :)
    – Maxim Zaslavsky
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 5:07
  • @Maxim: Actually, no... I really am going to write an app that searches the question for key words and then uses an algorithm to look up possible answers on search engines and posts them :)
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 5:18
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    Nooo.... How are people supposed to get lots of rep by answering the same noob question every week about their language of choice :)
    – Igor Zevaka
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 6:39
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The ability to post comments.

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Administration abilities

This would allow users with high enough reputation to use apps that could alert them of questions that may need to be closed and provide them the means to close said question within the same application.

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Ability to get at the questions user voted on

At this stage I see no way to get what questions and answers user has voted on. It would be good to have this ability for future releases of my app.

Seeing other user's votes is a pretty bad idea as they are meant to be private.

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  • this information is intentionally omitted. the potential for abuse is far too high. Favorites are the best you gonna get.
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 4:48
  • @code: But in v2.0, this could probably be allowed via OAuth or some other authentication method.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 4:49
  • @geo - it's not a matter of determining/controlling who can see it, it is a matter of privacy. it will never happen.
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 4:56
  • @code: Well... you can see your own votes. Why can't an app authenticating on your behalf see them too?
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 4:59
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    @geo - ok, i was not looking at it from that perspective. in the context of igor's app, i can see a use case. but spying on another user's up/downs will never happen, which is what i should have said clearly.
    – Sky Sanders
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 5:08
  • Oh. It's obvious, now that you said it.
    – Igor Zevaka
    Commented Jun 30, 2010 at 5:18

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