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Indicates that a request (usually a feature request) has been considered, but will not be implemented. Generally speaking, a developer will leave a comment as to why, or the community will come to consensus that the request is unnecessary.

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Installing user scripts on site?

The problem with this isn't so much the security (though that's a concern), it's that we don't want the backwards compatibility constraints such blessed installations imply on our HTML and javascript. …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote
Accepted

Can we have the display_name field in the /me/associated route?

This is by design, for reasons of technical limitations. Unfortunately, we don't have easy access to display names at a "network level". What's available (and what's backing the API) is very normali …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote
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What happened to the JSON documentation for the API?

This was dropped intentionally. The problem is that maintaining this sort of meta-api is both intensive (lots of v1.1 was spent not breaking v1.0 because of the way introspection was working) and of …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote

Include Full Post Details In /users/{id}/timeline

You shouldn't be making more than 4 requests in this case. fetch a page of /users/{ids}/timeline group the ids by type (question, answers, comments) since the max pagesize fo users/{ids}/timeline i …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
0 votes
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Is there any way we could have more information about tags in /questions?

So... no, I'm status-declined-ing this. Fetching that sort of data for each tag on each question becomes unpleasantly slow when you're dealing with batches of questions (which most request are). How …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
0 votes
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Add last_access_date field to the shallow_user object

The shallow_user type contains only fields that are "fast" to fetch, as it's always returned as a member of other (potentially expensive to fetch) types. Accordingly, we can't add any fields to shall …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
3 votes
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Site categories in API?

Categories aren't sufficiently stable to expose in the API. It is entirely possible (even likely, in my opinion) that we'll revisit and rework the proposal categorization significantly in the coming …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote

Relevance value on /similar route

There actually isn't much sensible that we could return as a "relevance rank", what we essentially get out of Lucene is just the order of posts to return. Internally, relevance ordering doesn't make …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote
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Can we have a flag for sites with mature content?

The Sexuality site was an experiment, one which failed. We may revisit this in the future, but for now there's no point in the flag as it's one use case is gone.
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
6 votes
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Self-mined Badge Progress via 2.0+ API

I'm declining this, not because I don't see the merit in it, but because we don't have the data to return in anything approaching a reasonable time. Our badge awarding code is very complex, and inten …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
2 votes
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How about a regex filter in the tags API?

No, we won't be implementing this. Not that I don't see a use case for it, but we'd never be able to accept and execute arbitrary regular expressions against the database. It'd just be far too easy …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote

Global Inbox **Unviewed Count** API

Chat notices from private rooms (mostly available to moderators) and careers messages go into the inbox. These things are private, and will not be exposed prior to authentication. I'm declining this …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote
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Provide a method to search for sites

Pagination on /sites is solely so [app]s don't have to pull down any unknown, large, and constantly growing chunk of a data in a single request. It is expected that every consumer would grab all site …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
1 vote

Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts

Unfortunately, there are no performance savings to be had if reputation is returned; this is simple the way the Stack Exchange network works at the moment. I will say that I'm hoping that by API 2.0 …
Kevin Montrose's user avatar
2 votes

Remove [app] questions from active

No, we still want people looking at updated app listings for vandalism and the like. Plus I dislike the idea of having the active tab differ in meaning only on StackApps. There's still something to …
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