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Difficulty: Medium

When navigation to a course page on Piazza, any network requests are made to the Piazza backend (specifically, the piazza.com/api endpoint) to load data that’s then rendered onto the page. Here are a few examples:

  • /api?method=content.get - fetches post content
  • /api?method=user_profile.get - fetches user profile
  • /api?method=network.get_my_feed - fetches user feed
  • /api?method=network.get_online_users - fetches number of online users

Task Questions

  1. For this semester’s Introduction post, select all TA’s and Instructors who marked followup @8_f11 as a “Good Comment”.