Follow topics

Following a topic adds it to Your topics. The topics you follow come first on the front page, appear on the Topics page, and are offered on News results so you can run any search inside them in one click.

#Follow a topic

The first time, the site asks to keep your list in this browser:

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Select Enable cookies and follow to turn on Saved preferences and follow the topic. Not now saves nothing; All privacy choices opens the full privacy window. See Saved preferences.

#Where your topics appear

• On the front page, in a Your topics section above the site's groups, with today's stories for each topic you follow. See The front page by topic.

• On the Topics page, under Your topics, as cards.

  

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• On News results, in the Your topics row of the Search within a topic box: select one to run your search inside it.

• In the topic finder, under Search in your topics, when you search for topics.

#Stop following

Select Following on the topic's page, or the filled star on any of its cards. A note says Removed from your topics.

#Common questions

How many topics can I follow?

Up to 50 on each site. The front page shows groups for the first eight.

Will my topics follow me to my phone or another site?

No. The list lives in the browser where you made it, and each site of the 4 Network keeps its own.

I followed topics but they are gone. Why?

Clearing cookies or site data, a private window, or turning off Saved preferences removes the list. Follow the topics again once Saved preferences is on.

Which topics come first?

The ones you followed most recently.