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Following

One place to say what you're interested in. The Following app holds the teams, shows, podcasts, feeds, sites, schools and people you follow, and what's new with each. It replaces the separate Sports, Feeds and Podcasts apps on the web, and the follow box that used to sit in Calendar. Open it at /apps/following, or from the grid button next to the message box.

Following something

Type into the box at the top — a team, a show, a podcast, a feed, a website, a school, a person — and Pepper finds it. Anything you already follow that matches comes first, then new things you could follow, then Follow as typed if you want exactly what you wrote. If none of it is right, Not it? Ask Pepper hands the search to the conversation. You can also just say it in chat: "follow the Giants", "follow Caitlin Clark", "subscribe me to Stratechery" work as they always have, and end up in the same list.

Following a website brings in both its events and its posts, as one row: its upcoming events appear beside your calendar and its new posts in Reading. If the site has posts and Pepper's first look at it finds no events coming up, the row carries on with just the posts. Unfollowing the site stops both.

Right after you follow something, a small card can offer ways to refine it. Following a league offers the teams in it; a big event like the World Cup offers its countries; a school asks which audiences apply; a team, feed, podcast, person or topic can offer related things worth following. Tap a pick to follow it, and Done closes the card. These suggestions only appear right after you follow — an existing row doesn't offer them.

Your follows

Your follows is one list, latest activity first, with any live game at the top. Each row's grey line is its most recent activity. The chips above it filter the list: All, Sports, Shows, Reading, Podcasts and Events (sites, schools, people and topics).

Open a row to see what it has been doing — a team's recent results and next games, a show's episodes, a feed's five most recent items (marked as new if you haven't seen them, with episode length for podcasts), or the upcoming events of a site, school or person. Where it applies, you also see the host and when Pepper last checked, and how many podcast episodes are still being transcribed. Visit site opens the source and Unfollow stops following it. An unfollowed row stays on the list, struck through, with Follow again if you change your mind.

Below that are the settings each kind of follow already had:

Something has stopped working

Anything that needs attention shows as a banner at the very top: a feed that's paused or failing, a calendar follow that's gone stale, a score provider that's down. Banners stack, and past two the rest fold behind a "more" link.

Finding more

Reading and the daily briefing

The Reading chip is the old Feeds app: your sites, newsletters and blogs with what's new in each. The Daily feed briefing setting sits at the top of that chip — the time, and where it reaches you. See Feeds & news for what the briefing is and how feeds reach your morning brief. The old Feeds, Sports and Podcasts pages on the web now open Following, on Reading, Sports or Podcasts.

Sports

The Sports chip holds your teams, leagues, players and big events. See Sports for what Pepper covers and how scores work.

Podcasts

The Podcasts chip holds the shows you follow — find one by name in the box, or paste its feed or site. Open a show's row to play an episode, read its transcript or show notes, or mark it played; Older episodes goes further back. While something plays, the player stays pinned to the bottom of Following. There's no queue: when an episode ends it's marked played and the player closes. See Feeds & news for transcripts and how listening works.

Posting a room's reading into a topic

A room's Following can post what it reads into one of the room's topics. Under Post new items to a topic on the room's Following, pick a topic and choose Post here; any member of the room can set it or Stop it, and asking Pepper in the room ("post Following into #news") does the same. The last few items from each feed arrive right away, then each new item as the feed publishes it, checked every few minutes. Podcasts post too; teams and calendar follows don't.

Each item is a card with the feed as its author: the publisher's icon, the headline, and the feed's own summary as it wrote it, never one Pepper wrote. Read more opens the article as the feed sent it, text, links and images, without leaving the room; Open on goes to the original, and Comments, when the feed names a discussion page (Hacker News does), goes to that. The conversation about an item lives on its card: reply in the box at its foot, react as on any message, and the latest ten replies show, with older ones behind N earlier. A new reply brings its card down to the bottom of the topic, so an item people are talking about stays in view; the card keeps the time it was posted. Replies on a card reach Pepper only when someone @mentions Pepper, and Pepper answers on the same card. When someone @mentions you on a card, the reply that mentions you is highlighted and the card is marked until you reply there, and a "You were mentioned on a card" button at the top of the topic jumps to each one in turn.

Calendar

Manage calendars, at the top of the calendar, still lists each follow as a row so you can set its visibility and Counts as busy, with a Manage in Following link. In a room, the calendar has Manage in Following instead, which opens that room's own Following.

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