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This tag indicates a proposal for a new feature for the Stack Exchange API, or a change to an existing feature.
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/user/{id}/notifications API call
I was contemplating adding notifications to my app, Droidstack. I would've liked to be able to add notifications for when new answers are posted to a user's (favorite) questions, when new comments are …
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Endpoints in associated accounts call
Slightly related:
Add reputation and site URL to 1.1 associated accounts
Currently, the only way to identify a site from the associated accounts route is by its name. This is pretty error-prone …
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Provide a way to discover associated meta sites
Currently, the API doesn't specify what the associated Meta site is for a certain site (I'm talking about the stackauth.com/1.0/sites route). Sure, we could just prepend "meta." to the domain name, bu …
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Make site icons have transparent backgrounds
This is a request to make the site's icons have transparent backgrounds. They are already PNGs, so they support that. This would make applications such as Droidstack look much better.
Although stac …
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Shouldn't there be a separate call for featured questions?
I find it rather peculiar that you can sort questions by featured. My arguments:
What does order mean in this case? It could mean the bounty amount (e.g. using desc would return the questions with t …
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Don't include answers in question lists by default
Right now, question list API queries (such as /questions, /questions/unanswered, /user/{id}/questions and so on) also return at most 30 answers (apparently) for each question. While this might be usef …
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Get a user's "interesting tags"
The current implementation of the API does not provide a way for us to fetch a user's "interesting tags". The /users/{id}/tags unfortunately returns all tags a user has participated in, which I'm not …
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Write access (post answers, comments etc. on behalf of users)
From what I can tell, there's currently no way to write to StackExchange sites using the API. Are there any plans to support this? This would mean some implementation headaches, such as providing a wa …