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This page sums up request limits pretty well. Basically: Don't make more than 30 requests per second Without a key you can make 300 requests per day, with a key you can make 10,000 requests per day …

It seems to have slowed to a trickle (why would anyone develop for an API that gets no publicity, no updating and little support) So how about an update with some read only additions leading to eventually … Based on the recent closed questions, otherwise it just proves the lack of support. …

I don't understand the difference between ascending and descending? Surely ascending means the most active/recent/popular/A first, and descending means the least active/recent/popular/Z first? But it …

In the documentation it tells you to set the sort parameter to hot, week or month (or votes, creation, featured, or activity (default)) EG: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/questions?sort=hot

On stackauth theres: stackauth.com/sites stackauth.com/1.0/sites Which one should be used (bearing that yesterday the one with the API version was unavailable)

You can register apps that aren't web apps. This page: http://api.stackexchange.com/docs/authentication, gives details for registering a Desktop Application. A mobile phone app comes under the categ …

The documentation says that each user gets 5 distinct quotas of 10,000 requests per 24 hours, and as I interpret it, per app. If an application does have an access_token, then the application is …

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 …

Would it be possible to get an example of each type returned by the inbox, Eg careers messages, and whatever meta questions are. Do careers invites/chat messages/etc have ids? And what is their site? …

I think I may have asked this before. Would it be possible to have example responses for the inbox route. Eg I have no idea what a careers_invite would be like.

It is not currently possible. At the moment it is only possible to post comments with the API. (and when/if posting answers can be done using the API, it will follow the restrictions of the site, if …

Other that invalidating an access token doesn't remove the app from the apps tab (why not?) whats the difference between these two methods?

How would you provide a logout button for an app that uses authentication. (Not so that the user has to choose to accept or reject the app, that's deleting the app from their tab) Basically force the …

The title pretty much says it all, I couldn't find in the Authentication doc much about the errors (other than the HTTP code will be 400)?

usually in the owner dictionary there is a display_name value to give the username. But in a few questions it simply doesn't exist and I can't see why only those questions: eg, this excerpt from the 0 …