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Events Discuss and schedule meetups, gatherings, and events, online or IRL. All events from every category can be viewed by clicking the “Calendar” link at the top of the forum. Education Discussions about the reading and writing of IF for educational purposes, at all education levels. IFTF News and Feedback The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) is the non-profit that ensures the ongoing maintenance, improvement, and preservation of tools and services crucial to the creation and distribution of interactive fiction, including this forum. In this sub-category, we’ll post news and updates as well requests for volunteers from our committees and programs. We welcome feedback and suggestions from the community. IF Community Resources Have a question about IFDB, IFWiki, IFArchive, or another online resource? This is the place to discuss uploading and archiving content, cataloging and hosting it online, or creating a Wiki page. Forum Announcements Announcements from the administration of the IF Forum. Off-Topic Discussion We welcome our regular members to discuss non-IF topics in this thread. Inappropriate commercial links, spam, and non-civil conversations are subject to moderation and/or removal.
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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 circle with a plus 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] [/s… |
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New Users: Your first post!
Welcome New Users and Lurkers! We’re glad to have people here to discuss IF of all kinds. You may not have immediate access to all forum features, please see this post about Forum Trust. We understand it can be daunt… |
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0 | 1886 | September 1, 2022 |
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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 | 2114 | February 25, 2019 |
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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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0 | 1680 | March 13, 2020 |
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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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| About the General category |
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0 | 1269 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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| IFWiki: September 2026 security incident |
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4 | 239 | October 10, 2026 |
| "Coding" versus "scripting" |
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46 | 688 | October 10, 2026 |
| Does parser IF make you sleeepy? |
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4 | 245 | October 9, 2026 |
| Who’s been getting spam emails praising their games? |
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73 | 1062 | October 9, 2026 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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| Finding/cataloguing postmortems |
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18 | 354 | October 9, 2026 |
| Pinkunz Update (Hopefully the last, please help) Resolved! |
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21 | 749 | October 8, 2026 |
| "Catch-Up" Reading |
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18 | 300 | October 8, 2026 |
| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2026 |
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11 | 415 | October 5, 2026 |
| This news article seems relevant to IFComp |
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16 | 411 | October 3, 2026 |
| IF Weekly Roundup |
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34 | 2530 | October 2, 2026 |
| ScummVM now supports "The Fool's Errand" |
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1 | 150 | October 2, 2026 |
| The QMan graphic novel |
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9 | 166 | October 1, 2026 |
| The stress of being a game dev |
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3 | 264 | October 1, 2026 |
| Would you like to give an online talk about IF? |
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4 | 241 | October 1, 2026 |
| Three Tac Toe |
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0 | 82 | September 30, 2026 |
| SF Bay IF Meetup Hybrid Online / In Person Saturday Oct 3 1pm |
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0 | 48 | September 30, 2026 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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893 | 22942 | October 10, 2026 |
| Interactive Theater/Performance |
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11 | 194 | September 27, 2026 |
| CYOA for adult readers |
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14 | 356 | September 25, 2026 |
| HTML offline mapper, AI-made |
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3 | 125 | September 25, 2026 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1339 | 28860 | September 23, 2026 |
| Radio K: Ask/Tell #12 |
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21 | 1198 | September 23, 2026 |