Questions tagged [status-bydesign]
Indicates that a submitted issue is actually due to the existing design of the system and is not considered erroneous behaviour.
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Collectives Articles endpoint broken
I would like to access a list of all Collective Articles on SO. I tried
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.3/articles?order=desc&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
which is the sample from here. ...
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“Try It” URL has wrong URI
On API doc pages, the “link” link at the top-right of the “Try It” sections presents a URL with the wrong domain name:
For example, on docs/similar, the URL displayed will be:
https://api....
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Link field on notification type
There is no link field on notification. Is this by design or a bug? If it's by design can it be changes so it's included, I can't see how to build the URL with only a post id, and not know what type ...
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The inname parameter does not work with multiple parameters
I am trying to get details by passing semicolon delimited list in inname paramter but it is not working.
I tried below API call:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.0/tags?order=desc&sort=popular&...
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Badges displayed incorrectly?
It seems that there's something odd going on with badges. If we take some random user, say 1719, which has one account, and check the user page http://stackexchange.com/users/1719/jelon, then we can ...
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Why doesn't the API return suggested edits on tag wikis?
Is there a reason why the API doesn't return suggested edits on tag wikis on the suggested-edits route?
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2.0 tags API returns only created tags
Searching for tags, using the inname parameter AND a date range returns only the tags that were created in that period, not the tags that were used in that period. When searching by inname only, or ...
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Error occurs when retrieving timeline for this question
Here is the question:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51812/the-api-sandbox
Here is the API URL:
http://api.meta.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions/51812/timeline?pagesize=100?page=2
Here is ...
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Comments in user timeline are returning Markdown
In users/{id}/timeline, the detail field for comment events is formatted with Markdown and not HTML. Is it normal?
I saw in the question Comments are returning markdown that the API should return HTML ...
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1.1 sites - SO and MSO
In 1.1 with the new related sites, is it intentional that MSO and SO are not related?
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API 'search' method with 'min' parameter
If you search for questions posted on time 1296897085 or later (by specifying sort=creation and min=1296897085), it may still return questions posted before that date:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1....
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user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
the suggested_buffer_size of user.about_me is currently 3000.
it is apparent that this is the server-side field length.
the problem is that the text is stored server-side in markdown but when served ...
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Bug - Getting partial results for questions
When processing http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/1156985 I only get partial results. Many of the missing fields are mandatory fields, including the owner of the question.
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questions/id is sometimes missing an owner?
Every once in a while when I query: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/questions/id I get a question back that is missing the owner field. Is this expected? I haven't seen anything about owner being ...
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On Stackauth /sites new meta sites have wrong name
This should be the correct behaviour:
name: "Stack Overflow Meta"
name: "Web Apps Meta"
name: "Gaming Meta"
..
For the newcomers Server Fault and Super User, Meta is before the parent site in the ...
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Where are the new Metas?
According to the most recent blog post, ServerFault and SuperUser each got their own Meta.
Shouldn't this be showing up in StackAuth?
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nottagged parameter not documented
It appears that the /questions method still takes the nottagged which specifies a list of tags to exclude questions by but this parameter is not mentioned in the documentation. Is this parameter ...
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Site in closed beta but api working
Webapps has been added yesterday, website is in closed beta and it's not possible to see something on the website when you are not logged.
But if you use the API you can get information.
http://api....
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redundant data in users
this is an example of truly redundant data. the paths are documented. they don't need to be included in the results.
"user_questions_url": "/users/22656/questions",
"user_answers_url": "/users/...
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redundant question fields
These are simply pointing to known endpoints. This is truly 100% redundant data.
"question_timeline_url": "/questions/3078600/timeline",
"question_comments_url": "/questions/3078600/comments",
"...
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Server has stopped obeying Accept-encoding header
Either today or yesterday, besides /questions/tagged having disappeared, the server started ignoring the Accept-encoding header:
Ligação estabelecida com 69.59.196.211 na porta 80
GET /0.8/questions/?...
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Answers suddenly not getting returned.
Try:
http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/questions/212
None of the answers are present.
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API having more rights than a 0 rep user.
The fact that the API has total_upvotes and total_downvotes makes the fact that you need 1000 rep on the sites a bit weird. Are there more things that the API knows by default, which you can only ...
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Inconsistent sort ordering on users?
I'm trying to get a list of the 10 oldest users. This is the endpoint I'm using:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users?key=(key)&order=asc&sort=creation&pagesize=10&page=0
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Post body is optional field in questions method?
"body": {
"description": "body of this post",
"values": "string",
"optional": true
},
Post body is optional field in questions method? Shouldn't all the posts have body field?
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