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Text-formatting Tools for this forum (code block, spoiler text, hide text, scrollable content)
If you haven’t clicked the gear icon when composing, it offers many useful functions. Many of these functions also work when typed inline as formatting. Spoiler Blur The simplest is the [spoiler] [/spoiler] tags which … |
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3 | 74 | June 18, 2025 |
New Users: Your first post!
Welcome New Users and Lurkers! We’re glad to have people here to discuss IF of all kinds. We understand it can be daunting to post for that first time and we know some people like to create posts in a word processor or … |
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2 | 1722 | May 22, 2024 |
FAQ/Guidelines/Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion The intfiction.org forums are a place for all authors and players, long-time enthusiasts and newcomers to discuss Interactive Fiction. Please treat this d… |
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0 | 1938 | February 25, 2019 |
Discourse New User Guide
This is a community-created guide to navigating and using a Discourse forum on Discourse Meta, the main forum from our friends who created the software. This is a topic posted on their discussion board - it will look an… |
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1 | 1622 | March 13, 2020 |
Please check your profiles for correct information
Please check your profile and the “full name” field. The full name field is visible on your posts, so please check and edit this if it’s not how you want it. Your email address is not visible to anyone but Staff. I was … |
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4 | 1908 | February 28, 2019 |
About the General category |
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0 | 1251 | February 25, 2019 |
Introducing Ourselves |
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1682 | 229937 | June 24, 2025 |
Phil Goes to Narrascope 2025 |
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16 | 287 | June 23, 2025 |
What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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5140 | 65250 | June 23, 2025 |
What are you reading these days? |
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665 | 13472 | June 23, 2025 |
Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup July 2025 |
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0 | 39 | June 21, 2025 |
New user approvals
The forum is currently under a bit of a flood of spam, so I have turned on manual approval for new users. Apologies to any new people, but we’ll attempt to not keep you waiting too long. Please sign up with a meaningful … |
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45 | 2262 | June 21, 2025 |
Narrascope 2024 videos audio poll - requires your ears |
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11 | 141 | June 21, 2025 |
Incoming forum emails weren't working |
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2 | 564 | June 21, 2025 |
What are you listening to? |
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1219 | 20746 | June 20, 2025 |
Fire Towers on the Appalachian Trail (and an actual fire) |
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2 | 74 | June 20, 2025 |
Going in-person to NarraScope 2025? |
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3 | 203 | June 15, 2025 |
ChoiceBeat - Issue 14 |
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0 | 76 | June 15, 2025 |
The Guild of Thieves for Android by StrandGames |
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1 | 99 | June 14, 2025 |
The "Hooray for Future Plans" Thread (Plans for future stewardship of comps and community resources) |
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32 | 903 | June 13, 2025 |
"Crystal Ball" Personalized Game Recommendations |
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20 | 332 | June 13, 2025 |
Off-topic video games thread |
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257 | 7266 | June 6, 2025 |
Narrascope Showcase |
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3 | 144 | June 13, 2025 |
Announcing the IFTF Patreon! |
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15 | 204 | June 11, 2025 |
Do you wear glasses? |
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53 | 1014 | June 9, 2025 |
Game Recommendations from "The Bat" - Poll Data (from you!) Wanted |
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1 | 149 | June 5, 2025 |
Narrascope 2024 videos? |
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26 | 679 | June 5, 2025 |
Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup June 2025 |
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0 | 53 | June 5, 2025 |
IFDB quarterly backup? |
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7 | 216 | June 5, 2025 |
IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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4 | 210 | June 2, 2025 |