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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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7 | 172 | August 3, 2025 |
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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. 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 | 1737 | May 22, 2024 |
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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 | 1951 | 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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1 | 1626 | 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 | 1252 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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| Itch.io is delisting NSFW/Adult-tagged games |
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84 | 1417 | August 4, 2025 |
| Announcing... the IFDB Tag Manipulator! |
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34 | 580 | August 3, 2025 |
| Exercise Enthusiasts and Accountability Partners |
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5 | 148 | August 3, 2025 |
| UK Online Safety Act |
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55 | 785 | August 3, 2025 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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692 | 14290 | August 3, 2025 |
| Horizon Theme |
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4 | 97 | August 3, 2025 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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5267 | 68264 | August 2, 2025 |
| Rich-text editor for IFDB |
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0 | 74 | August 2, 2025 |
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Server corruption/outage and backup restored
We’re back! Our host Linode had a major incident which affected most IFTF sites. While the others came back online after not too long, the forum’s server seems to have suffered actual damage or corruption. We’ve been ab… |
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51 | 557 | August 1, 2025 |
| IFDB profile and author name merging/cleanup |
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3 | 125 | August 1, 2025 |
| What are your IF Hot Takes and Unpopular Opinions? |
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553 | 8019 | July 31, 2025 |
| Dangerous Visions: The Dolomite Affair |
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9 | 70 | July 30, 2025 |
| Fascism - Off Topic |
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33 | 340 | July 26, 2025 |
| Anyone else unhappy with the method of finding what to play? |
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39 | 482 | July 24, 2025 |
| What can be considered an IF? |
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10 | 133 | July 23, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1228 | 21525 | July 22, 2025 |
| Lessons from creating my first text adventure |
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6 | 208 | July 22, 2025 |
| Game Recommendations from "The Bat" - Poll Data (from you!) Wanted |
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2 | 202 | July 20, 2025 |
| Off-topic video games thread |
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264 | 7502 | July 20, 2025 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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599 | 9829 | July 20, 2025 |
| A Question About the History of Computer Storage and OS Sizes |
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23 | 304 | July 18, 2025 |
| Spicy Stories Club - curious to know what you think |
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0 | 73 | July 18, 2025 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup September 2025 |
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