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It's about time this thing got under way. If you're participating in the private beta, you should receive an email to that effect. If you were also a member of the V1.0 private beta, you'll notice w …

The inbox methods have a number of aliases to aid in their consumption. /me/inbox is provided for those apps that are single site focused. /users/{ids}/inbox is provided for symmetry with every other …

At this point in the beta, there really isn't a good solution. You can't share the secret safely, nor can you instruct others to generate keys (unless they are in the beta). However, the proper way …

While technically they work, they don't do much of value. I'd keep them around for symmetry if they were the only method in the API which didn't need them, but they're already missing from other me …

View data isn't stored in a way that makes "views over time" easy to calculate, nor is the final result reliable. Given the move away from views elsewhere in the API (dropping sorts, fields, etc. ; f …

link is the best way to distinguish between items. No two items should have the same link, and inbox items aren't updated after they are created; they're snapshots of activity more than references to …

Hmm, I agree with a bit of this... but not all of it. sorts descend conceptually from the sorts exposed on the sites, you'll note this most strongly from the question sorts (hot, week, month, activit …

As work has progressed on the upcoming second version of our API, we've come to a bit of an impasse that's going to force a semi-radical change. Here's the root of the issue: once you've gotten an au …

As has been announced, we're starting the public beta and spinning up a contest (as we did with V1.0). As such, some of the guidelines for the private beta no longer apply. The api-v2-beta tag no lo …

The following method names have been changed for reasons of consistency. /access-tokens/{accessTokens}/read is now /access-tokens/{accessTokens} /filter/create is now /filters/create /filter/{filter …

It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality. So let …

Starting in V2, the API will honor deflate Accept-Encodings (it still defaults to GZIP in the absence of an Accept-Encoding). So, if deflate is an option then you've got a work around. I'm curious a …

I'm going to lay some ground work about authentication and access tokens before answering, because I think you have some misconceptions. When a user authenticates an application they have given per …

"Agile" API releases are a really bad idea, frankly. The StackOverflow code base undergoes rapid iteration already, just watch the build numbers. On average we deploy at least once a day. Oftentime …

Its far to early to even speculate as to how v2 of the API will be released, or as to any of the fanfare surrounding it.