I’m very happy to announce two much requested features: finding questions you follow, and withdrawing from questions.

# The new “Following” feed

Now you can easily find all questions you’re following! Select the “Following” feed in the feed sidebar:

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It has, as the name suggests, all the questions you’re following. To follow a question, go to the question page and click the Follow button.

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“Followed” is also now an option in the advanced filter menu, under the “My participation” section:

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This lets you combine it with other filters to find the exact questions you want.

# Withdrawing from a question

At long last, it is now possible to withdraw from a question!

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Once you’ve withdrawn, you no longer have a prediction standing for that question. Of course, after withdrawing, you can make a new prediction any time and start accruing scores again. Concretely, this means that, starting from the moment you withdrew and until you make a new prediction:

* You stop accruing scores, including Peer scores, Baseline scores, etc.
* You stop accruing Coverage for the Peer leaderboards.
* You aren’t part of the Community Prediction or other aggregates.

To be extra clear, none of those behaviours are retroactive: you still get scores and coverage for times up until you withdrew, and your past predictions are not removed from the Community Prediction.

To see a worked example, head to the [FAQ](/faq/#howwithdraw).

To quickly see which questions you’ve ever predicted, withdrawn from, or still have a standing prediction on, there are new filters in the filter menu:

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And withdrawals show up as crosses in the timeline graphs:

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Note: the ability to withdraw is a big change to how predictions happen on Metaculus. We are currently enabling it on all questions that are not linked to a prize pool. We expect to learn a lot about how you all use this new capability, and the effects it has on Metaculus in the next few weeks and months.

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We hope you find both of those features useful. If you have thoughts, feedback, or ideas, please share them below!