User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-126761-20100517132650

Good morning! This is our current plan: This is not the full list, but the most interesting stuff. I don't have an ETA to announce at the moment, but it shouldn't be long.
 * Special:Following will always be private. The public/private option will apply only to the user page sidebar. (By the way, the list here only shows live content namespace pages - our stats show users have been really interested in these links).
 * We are working on making the user sidebar more useful (and less disruptive).
 * We recognise there are issues with red links on the Special:Following list due to how they interact with talk page archives and deleting pages. We are considering removing them from that list to reduce confusion. You will still get any related emails, and they will still be removable via Special:Watchlist/edit or the pages themselves.