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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. 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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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 | 1994 | 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 | 1641 | 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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| Introducing Ourselves |
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| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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| Jessica's Spider Thread |
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70 | 804 | December 5, 2025 |
| Intfiction demographic survey |
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17 | 214 | December 5, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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| An idea for IFDB: optional automatic tagging for polls and reclists? |
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| What are you reading these days? |
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| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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13 | 530 | December 1, 2025 |
| IF Weekly Roundup |
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27 | 1837 | November 30, 2025 |
| Bumping a poll about cover art (and interested in people's preferences) |
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9 | 236 | November 26, 2025 |
| Update on IFWiki's new software database |
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10 | 689 | November 25, 2025 |
| Simple visual novels for education |
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4 | 87 | November 25, 2025 |
| Cloudflare outage |
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5 | 181 | November 20, 2025 |
| Linguistics Trivia and Discussion |
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0 | 92 | November 18, 2025 |
| What is your opinion on interactive film games ( choice based narrative dramas) |
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11 | 178 | November 18, 2025 |
| IF Archive geoblocking progress |
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3 | 262 | November 18, 2025 |
| Wishbringer--Free |
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5 | 209 | November 17, 2025 |
| Sharing our own poetry |
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23 | 571 | November 16, 2025 |
| School IF Competition |
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13 | 330 | November 16, 2025 |
| Let's Talk about Collecting Narrative Games in Libraries |
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23 | 3098 | November 16, 2025 |
| Non-entertainment IF |
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64 | 722 | November 14, 2025 |
| The Magician (Retires) |
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0 | 108 | November 10, 2025 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup November 2025 |
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0 | 49 | November 8, 2025 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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