Metaculus recorded its first binary prediction [in October of 2015](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/1/will-advanced-ligo-announce-discovery-of-gravitational-waves-by-jan-31-2016/). Since then the platform has added support for continuous questions, comment threads, question groups, and so much more.

Below is a changelog starting 2022-11-11. It will list all notable changes to the platform, each section giving the changes since the last update. Each update will also be posted as a comment, for easy discussion.

### 2022-12-19 changes

Improvements:

- [Project](https://www.metaculus.com/organization/forecasting-projects/) / [Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/organization/tournaments/) / [Public Figure](https://www.metaculus.com/organization/public-figures/#) tiles look much nicer. This will keep improving over the next few weeks.

- St Louis Fed's FRED (fred.stlouisfed.org) and EIA (eia.gov) embeds are now white-listed. Example [here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13997/us-cpi-inflation-falls-below-3/).

- The Point Rankings page now shows points totals for questions resolved in the last 3 months. This makes the rankings more interesting and dynamic, escpecially for new forecasters.

- New visitors no longer see the welcome modal when they first reach www.metaculus.com. They do see a sign up / login modal when first predicting.

- You can now find your draft questions by going to the main feed, opening the filter next to search, and selecting the "Draft" Status. Shortcut [here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/?order_by=-activity&status=draft&main-feed).

- On question pages, the Share icon is now more visible, and there is a dedicated Embed button.


Bug fixes:

- The twitter embeds failing to load no longer causes the comment text box to stay open after clicking Post.

- Subquestions in their hidden periods are no longer out of order in fan graphs.

### 2022-12-02 changes

Improvements:

- When a comment links to a tweet, it is now automatically embedded. Example [here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3600/iowa-hosts-first-caucus-by-2029/#comment-108599). Improvements to make the embeds look more seamless have been added to the backlog.

- The navigation bar at the top of the screen is now sticky, and stays visible when you scroll. This only applies on desktop for now.

- The US government's [Alternative Fuels Data Center](http://afdc.energy.gov/) has been added to the embed whitelist. You can now embed iframes from that website in question texts.

Bug fixes:

- Banning users is now less resource-intensive on the backend. This will have no bearing on our [Moderation Rules](https://www.metaculus.com/help/guidelines/#moderation) whatsoever.

- Editing pending questions and other posts no longer changes their types to binary.

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### 2022-11-18 changes

- Fan Graphs now show the community prediction by default. This fixes an issue where the Fan Graphs were almost empty when only one question in a group was resolved.

- Fan Graphs now appear on question tiles in question feeds and lists. You can see an example in the question list for the [Cultured Meat Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/cultured-meat-tournament/).

- The contrast of the up/down vote buttons has been increased. It's now easier to see which comments and questions you've up/down voted.

- Small bug fixes.


### 2022-11-11 changes

<small>This is the first update, it only covers changes since 2022-11-04.</small>

- Made Fan Graphs look more consistent with Forecast Timelines.

- Fixed a bug where Fan Graphs would display incorrectly when quartiles were too close to the bounds.

- Fixed a bug where Fan Graphs had too many ticks on the y axis.

- Fixed a bug where large and small numbers were formatted incorrectly on graphs.

- Small bug fixes.

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