Discontinuing the User Following feature

Starting today, you can no longer follow other users on Observable. You can export the lists of whom you follow and who follows you in Settings as JSON or OPML, compatible with RSS readers, until February 19.

To enable the transfer of User Following functionality to external RSS readers, the ability to append ?sort=edited to RSS feeds has been enabled.

Observable is primarily utilized as an authoring tool by the majority of our users, with a preference for leveraging other platforms such as social networks and group chats for sharing notebooks within their public or private communities.