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Delay from editing question to seeing the edit in API

Sure a delay of about a minute is not much, but when you consider that if you post a question the API sees it immediately, and often something using the API is ahead of the stackoverflow site, then it …
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site status: Closed_beta

Will stackauth ever show a site as closed_beta? Is there much point if it's closed?
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Abuse potential in API write-access?

Same limits as the normal site I think, as apps and things can be built using HTML Parsers and POST and such stuff. The API should just make it easier, than fiddling around with HTMl or whatever. I t …
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Posting questions and answers via API

The current version of the API is read only, meaning you can not have users login and post answers/comments/questions. Theres documentation on the API, which you can get by click on the API documentat …
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How can I see the next page of favorites using the SO API?

Look at the documentation: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/help/method?method=users/{id}/favorites You can use the parameter pagesize to change the size of results: eg: http://api.stackoverflow.com …
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Application marketing ideas

I think a banner like the "You have one new response" banner at the top of each site to "advertise" Stacklist as place to find apps would be best. Even if only for 1 day or 2. I don't see how that is …
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Logging out so another user can log in

This is how I managed to completely log out the user, I'm not sure about the URL I use, it's not documented by the SE API, but it's the one users get sent to when logging out on the website themselves …
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Filtering tags should provide exact matches at top

Take this query for example: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/tags?pagesize=25&filter=ip No where is there the valid tag [ip]. It is further down the page. This is quite annoying when searching for t …
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Locked vs Closed

Whats the difference between locked and closed API wise. What I mean is why is this question locked: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/4755/should-i-get-a-credit-card-closed But this one clos …
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Let's delete the off topic questions?

There's like 5 in the top few of the front page and it's a little annoying as they get in the way so can a mod just delete them they serve no useful purpose.
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Site Icon Hash in stackauth.com/sites

How do I cache the images properly, I think asked this somewhere before, but it hasn't affected me until gameing site went out of beta. It's HTTP headers or something isn't Ok I used George's answ …
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Maximum tags for a question on any SE site [closed]

Is the maximum tags for all SE sites (and those in the future) 5?
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Draft Specification for API v2.0

(Should this be an answer?) I don't understand why there is an /users/{ids}/inbox. Surely there only should be /users/me/inbox? And it is nice to see the /events route (just wish there was webhooks …
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Once authorized, is there a way to auto-login with a browser?

Why not provide the site login first? Then when they've logged in through that, show the API auth dialog, which will use the cookies/etc from the initial login, so the user will only have to press acc …
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Area 51 sites api

This is because area51 doesn't have an API. It's not a traditional stack exchange site and runs differently.
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