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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?

Based on a reasonable response for Stack Apps, this has now been done. Merged stack-exchange into support (which many of the questions already had) and deleted support from those posts where it didn' …
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Should we "Burninate" the [stack-exchange] tag?

The Stack Apps topic help makes it clear that all questions here must pertain to Stack Exchange in some way: If your question is about … the Stack Exchange API applications built on the …
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!

feature-requeststatus-planned The Stack Apps home pages are not giving new users the best impression. Several obsolete, placeholder, beta, and low-scoring apps and scripts are placed prominently there …
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Stack Apps updated site theme is ready for testing!

bugfeature-request Can we get the home page to show all the tags for a post. And also, ideally, the post's score: EG, from: To:
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Are bounties on Stack Apps productive?

My opinion is that they probably do not help, but that could change if you post a large enough bounty and are somehow able to "advertise" it (maybe in chat) to enough people that can answer (or upvote …
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What should we do about dead listings?

Yes, obsolete listings (script / app / library) should at the very least, be made obvious at a glance and ideally obvious in search results. For reference, there are currently only 754 listings that a …
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Request for a userscript to activate the "Wheel of Blame" Easter egg in chat

Okay, here's a script that adds a button to launch those Easter eggs: Once installed, merely select the desired Easter egg from the drop-down then press the EEgg button. (Then weep for the poor pu …
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What API do I call to measure popularity growth for specific tags over time?

Do you mean something like this plot? : (Generated by SEDE: /query/201360?ShowScore=0&Tag1=excel&Tag2=python&Tag3=NA&Tag4=NA#graph) Use the data explorer (SEDE) for that. To do this with the API, …
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How to get deleted answers?

This question is nearly a duplicate of: Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted -- which has been "status planned" for 6+ years. In general, it is very hard to search f …
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Permission to link to Stack Overflow webpages from my app?

Sounds like you are technically not "linking" the pages (to open in Chrome, Firefox, etc.). Google suspects you of "bundling" someone else's content: We don’t allow apps whose primary purpose is …
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How to get new questions continuously?

Probably the most cost-effective way is to poll /questions every minute or two. (Results are cached so, polling more than once a minute probably won't do anything but chew up your quota.) Related: P …
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1 vote

Default Stack Exchange behavior interferes with my "Mark answers as favorites" code?

Don't use the default button. That's bad UI anyway. Add your own favorite button for each answer. And, since you will be using your own classes, like: <a class="myStarOff" href="#" data-ansID="1234 …
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How to get total visited days and consecutives of an user?

You cannot get the days visited, nor consecutive, information for a user because that is private information(Poster is SE representative). Stack Exchange is supposed to be about the content, not the p …
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Can I retrieve question comment count as part of a search query?

See the question object. comment_count has been available since API version 2.2 but it is not returned by default. You must create and use a custom filter that includes comment_count. So:         /2 …
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Are the inbox routes (`inbox_item`) missing some item types?

1) Answer is already in the inbox_item object. Note the entry for item_type in the doc page: one of comment, chat_message, new_answer, careers_message, careers_invitations, meta_question, post_not …
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