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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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Answers suddenly not getting returned.

Try: http://api.stackapps.com/0.8/questions/212 None of the answers are present.
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Are these fields redundant?

Why do we have total_upvotes + total_downvotes as well as score? Doesn't score = total_upvotes - total_downvotes Is this always true? If so, isn't it redundant?
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Method /users/{id} doesn't return "about_me" if the user has never modified it

There are lots more. The problem is that having something blank doesn't convey that the user hasn't filled it in... just that it's blank. I think it should stay the way it is.
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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 t …
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Link field on notification type

This is possible. Just use the format below: http://some_site.stackexchange.com/q/ {post_id} This will work regardless of whether the post is a question or answer. If the post is an answer, 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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What happened to nothingtoinstall.com?

This is weird: { "name": "Web Applications", "logo_url": "http://sstatic.net/webapps/img/logo.png", "api_endpoint": "http://api.webapps.stackexchange.com", "site_url": "http:/ …
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Why are StackAuth methods not returning rate-limit headers?

Visiting the page: http://stackauth.com/1.1/sites yields the following headers: Notably absent are the X-RateLimit-Max and X-RateLimit-Current headers that show up in API queries to the sites thems …
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Runtime error getting thrown with certain parameters on older 1.1 methods

This v1.1 URL is creating a runtime error: http://api.stackapps.com/1.1/comments&min=1323731212 Example output:
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How to sort answers to question?

If I retrieve a question like so: http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/questions/1429951&sort=votes I expect the answers to be sorted by votes, but they're not. How can I do this?
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stackauth.com/1.0/users/{id}/associated not returning display_name for some sites

This is because the user hasn't specified a username on those sites yet. The name you see on SuperUser, for example, is somehow derived from his/her OpenID.
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