Timeline for What's the [api] tag for?
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| Aug 15, 2019 at 12:33 | vote | accept | Toby Speight | ||
| Aug 15, 2019 at 12:19 | answer | added | MastMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCodeReview/status/1071056886164807680 | ||
| Dec 7, 2018 at 4:08 | comment | added | user1118321 | "A lot of them are about interacting with network services of one sort or another." This is an unfortunate recent development in computing where the term API is being co-opted to mean specifically a REST API. This use of API has infected many parts of SE, unfortunately. As someone who develops a non-network-related API, it's pretty annoying. | |
| Dec 6, 2018 at 3:25 | comment | added | Andrew T. | Looking from the oldest questions, the oldest was about writing an API, but came from SO. The second oldest was also about writing an API. To crosscheck if some of them were added later, the oldest activity was done to this question which was already tagged with 'api'. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | Mast Mod | Fully agree with you there. IMO the tag should only be used when writing an API (as in, the question posted contains code that is an actual API or part of providing it, not merely using one from a third party), but I don't know enough about it's origin to say what it's supposed to be used for. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 11:45 | comment | added | Toby Speight | I'd like to know what the community consensus is. If there's a known original meaning, then that's useful input (but is unlikely to be the last word). More than anything, I'd like to avoid having a tag that has wildly varying interpretations, as that doesn't serve the site well. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 11:00 | comment | added | Mast Mod | IMO the content of that tag-info should be replaced completely, since it's currently a copy-paste of a Wiki article. There's a policy against that (somewhere). Do you want to (re-)define the scope of the tag or want to know what the author of the tag had in mind? If the latter, ask him. He's still around every once in a while. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 10:44 | history | asked | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |