Suggestions for improving the API, to make it more valuable for data mining and analytics. This assumes more historical data is available. 1. Provide a way to

Suggestions for improving the API, to make it more valuable for data mining and analytics. This assumes more historical data is available. 1. Provide a way to bulk download the data (that's a click, instead of scraping the API) 2. Add a field for the maximum position a story reached on the front page 3. Add the numerical score for the comment (at least on comments that are N days old, which won't interfere with the reason to hide the scores on the main comments) Some other changes that would be awesome (but are less realistic) include: 4. A historical event log of votes (even better would be relating those votes back to users, but I imagine that's not going to happen for privacy reasons. An intermediate possibility would be a vote log connected back to anonymized user ids, assuming the anonymous id -> real user id mapping is difficult) 5. A historical event log of display position changes for stories & comments 6. An event log of pageviews with as much metadata as possible to release without infringing on privacy