**Update:** The December Virtual Metaculus Meetup will be held at 10 AM US central time (4 PM UTC) on Wednesday December 28.

We'll use Jitsi for the meetup, here's a link to join: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/06041654c8bc63d9b16aa2c21cb8c8a6620a21e91cd1a439edbca3297a1dc8b6

[Here's a link to an ics calendar invite](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BlaxNDiLIERnW3npiB-og_sSahb_Uht/view?usp=share_link) you can download if you wish to add it to your calendar.

See you there!

---

We’re holding another virtual meetup (last held in [November of 2022](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13535/november-2022-virtual-metaculus-meetup/)). This is an opportunity to chat with your fellow Metaculites and a few Metaculus Admins about anything on your mind related to forecasting, interesting questions on the site, rationales for your forecasts, questions for Admins, questions you want to see on the site, or anything else.

Fill out this when2meet to indicate your availability: https://www.when2meet.com/?18057684-tIDKJ

We’ll select a time and announce it prior to the meetup. If there are no objections the meetup will be held on [Jitsi](https://meet.jit.si/), which is free to use, and we’ll post a link to the meeting when the time is announced.

We’ve also launched a forecasting question asking for the peak number of attendees for the December forecasting meetup, [see if you can predict the attendance here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/12559/metaculus-meetup-peak-attendees/).

We hope to see you there!

# In Case You Missed It

In celebration of reaching one million forecasts we hosted a [Hackathon](https://metaculus.medium.com/announcing-metaculuss-million-predictions-hackathon-91c2dfa3f39) and a series of forecasting talks from experts and researchers involved in forecasting. We’ve been digging into the work of our community members who participated in the Hackathon and we hope to use their insights to make Metaculus even better! You can view the [discussion post for the talks with links to recordings](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13853/metaculus-talks-recordings-now-up/), or a [YouTube playlist of the talks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCnxUBxw-E&list=PLj1zvQDzywGKEI3ORS1Z5xLrH407QYt3y).

In November, we launched the [Beginner Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/beginner-tournament/), a tournament with periodic short term questions ideal to give new forecasters quick feedback on how they did. It will end on December 31, so get your forecasts in on the remaining questions!

In December we launched the [Sagan Space Tournament](https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/sagan-tournament/) with a number of fascinating questions about future progress in space exploration and the space industry. Join the tournament for a chance to win part of the $5,000 prize pool, $2,500 of which is set aside for the best comments submitted before January 1, 2024.

We welcomed our new [Community Manager Evan Harper](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13765/introducing-community-manager-evan-harper/), we’re excited to have him on board and are glad to have Evan as a valuable resource for the community.

We launched a new [Economic Indicators](https://www.metaculus.com/project/2018/) project, where the community can make forecasts on a number of economic indicators over a recurring period. We’ll continue adding interesting global economic indicators to this project. Forecast on these questions and see how well you can predict the health of the world economy over the coming years!

# Platform Improvements

We’ve started to publicly track changes to the site in the [Metaculus Changelog](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/13660/metaculus-changelog/). Check there for all the details, but we’ll highlight a few notable improvements here each month. Here are some from the past month:

* Fan graphs have been added to question tiles in the main feed
* Links to Tweets will now automatically embed the Tweet in your comment
* The project and tournament pages now [look much nicer](https://www.metaculus.com/organization/tournaments/)
* The navbar has been reorganized to make it easier to find projects and useful resources about forecasting on Metaculus
* You can more easily find your draft questions using the “draft” filter in the question feed (direct link [here](https://www.metaculus.com/questions/?order_by=-activity&status=draft&main-feed))
* You can now embed charts from the St. Louis Fed’s FRED, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), and Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) (in addition to embeds from Our World in Data) in Metaculus questions.