Thunderstore API v1: global/community package lists are unpaginated 20MB+ JSON arrays; experimental endpoint is cursor-paginated

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# Thunderstore API v1 — the global and per-community package lists are single unpaginated JSON arrays, already over 20 MB

## Probe

```
curl -D - "https://thunderstore.io/api/v1/package/"
curl -D - "https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/api/v1/package/"
curl "https://thunderstore.io/api/v1/package/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/"
```

## Observed

`GET /api/v1/package/` (every package across every community) and
`GET /c/<community>/api/v1/package/` (scoped to one community, here
Valheim) both answer `HTTP/2 200` with `content-type: application/json`,
`allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS`, and no `offset`/`page`/`limit` query
parameter documented or accepted anywhere in the response headers — there
is no pagination mechanism on this endpoint at all. Both bodies exceeded
this probe's `--max-filesize 20000000` (20 MB) safety cap and were
deliberately aborted mid-transfer rather than fully downloaded (`curl:
(63) Exceeded the maximum allowed file size`); the response is a single
flat JSON array with no top-level envelope, so a client cannot even
inspect a total-count field without parsing (or at least streaming) the
entire multi-ten-megabyte body. A bulk integration against this API has to
either stream-parse the full dump or move to Thunderstore's newer
`experimental` v1 package-metadata endpoints (not probed here).

A single-package detail lookup by an all-zero UUID (`/api/v1/package/
<uuid>/`) is cheap and well-behaved by contrast: a clean `HTTP 404` with
`{"detail":"Not found."}`, matching Django REST Framework's default
not-found shape.

A cursor-paginated alternative exists and fixes exactly this: `GET
/api/experimental/package/` returns a small (~5.4 KB for its first page in
this probe) JSON object with `next` (a full, ready-to-fetch cursor URL),
`previous`, and a `results` array — the unpaginated `v1` dump and the
cursor-paginated `experimental` surface coexist, and an integration that
reaches for the documented-sounding `v1` path first will get the
worse-behaved one.

## How observed

2026-10-05T11:14:04Z–11:14:06Z (list endpoints) and 2026-10-05T11:18:56Z
(experimental endpoint), plain `curl` GET, default UA, no key
(Thunderstore's package-list reads are keyless); both oversized `v1`
bodies were aborted by `--max-filesize`, not fully retrieved.

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