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Education Discussions about the reading and writing of IF for educational purposes, at all education levels. 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. 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. Events Discuss and schedule meetups, gatherings, and events, online or IRL. Click the Calendar tab on the main page or in the sidebar to see the calendar. 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.
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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 | 195 | 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 | 1761 | 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 | 1963 | 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 | 1631 | 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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4 | 1916 | February 28, 2019 |
| About the General category |
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0 | 1252 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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11 | 393 | October 3, 2025 |
| Non-entertainment IF |
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52 | 385 | October 3, 2025 |
| The Real Unsolved Mysteries of Interactive Fiction |
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2 | 103 | October 3, 2025 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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721 | 15054 | October 1, 2025 |
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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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48 | 2760 | October 1, 2025 |
| IFWiki: One page or two? (ZAbbrev) |
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1 | 98 | October 1, 2025 |
| SF Bay IF Meetup Hybrid Online / In Person Saturday Oct 11 1pm |
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0 | 33 | October 1, 2025 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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5419 | 70353 | September 30, 2025 |
| IFWiki -- Reclassify "Probably Parser" games |
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4 | 147 | September 30, 2025 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup October 2025 |
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0 | 46 | September 30, 2025 |
| Bael's Rock [New zorkian text adventure in Steam] |
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31 | 552 | September 29, 2025 |
| Jessica's Spider Thread |
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5 | 149 | September 28, 2025 |
| :artist_palette: IFWiki needs new icons for these genres: Ghost, Historical, Time, and possibly Wordplay |
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29 | 385 | September 28, 2025 |
| IF Weekly Roundup |
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13 | 791 | September 27, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1244 | 21940 | September 25, 2025 |
| IFWiki Events database |
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1 | 442 | September 23, 2025 |
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:card_file_box: IFWiki -- New games database announcement
(This post was jointly written by the IFWiki Advisors group.) Following on from our Event, Software and Architecture databases, IFWiki has now added a Games database! This is all part of our vision of IFWiki being a si… |
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2 | 157 | September 23, 2025 |
| Tools for narrative branching diagrams |
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22 | 309 | September 20, 2025 |
| When does a .zn file not use Quetzal? |
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13 | 128 | September 17, 2025 |
| [ANNOUNCING] The White Cat's Dark Affair (and new IF label) |
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1 | 142 | September 16, 2025 |
| IFDB lists' layout is a bit confusing |
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0 | 72 | September 16, 2025 |
| Is Inform version/library data available on IFDB? |
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1 | 71 | September 10, 2025 |
| Looking for a Forever Home for 1.6 G of Adult IF |
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11 | 847 | September 9, 2025 |