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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 | 1668 | 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 | 1869 | 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 | 1605 | 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 | 1894 | February 28, 2019 |
| About the General category |
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0 | 1243 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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1640 | 225836 | November 30, 2024 |
| What are your IF Hot Takes and Unpopular Opinions? |
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180 | 868 | December 1, 2024 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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4429 | 51435 | December 1, 2024 |
| Advent (pre-xmas time) |
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10 | 112 | December 1, 2024 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1107 | 18021 | December 1, 2024 |
| Sharing our own poetry |
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15 | 301 | November 30, 2024 |
| Black Friday sales (mine, others's's) |
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1 | 66 | November 30, 2024 |
| PC CD ROMs of Discworld II and Starship Titanic available |
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2 | 90 | November 30, 2024 |
| Empirical studies of trigger/content warnings |
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31 | 267 | November 29, 2024 |
| Mathematicians? |
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151 | 3335 | November 29, 2024 |
| Itch Creator Day is today (Friday 29th) |
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0 | 39 | November 29, 2024 |
| Any way to make Bluesky's discover algorithm interesting? |
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7 | 170 | November 29, 2024 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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524 | 7767 | November 28, 2024 |
| 500 Signs You Don't Know Enough IF |
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48 | 3955 | November 28, 2024 |
| Off-topic video games thread |
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230 | 5939 | November 26, 2024 |
| Have you ever used any of my IFDB lists before? |
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9 | 186 | November 26, 2024 |
| Gen AI disclosure on itch.io |
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7 | 283 | November 24, 2024 |
| Big Studios and the Red Herring of Photorealistic Graphics |
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60 | 825 | November 24, 2024 |
| IFTF Grant at work in Indonesia! |
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4 | 137 | November 23, 2024 |
| IFDB: Field for length of time? (Update: This feature is now live!) |
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66 | 602 | November 23, 2024 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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507 | 9297 | November 22, 2024 |
| Favorite Number |
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78 | 516 | November 21, 2024 |
| Estimated play time votes on IFDB are now publicly attributed to you |
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11 | 129 | November 20, 2024 |
| Non-IF works by the IF community |
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62 | 982 | November 20, 2024 |
| ReZORK - ZORK Reimagined |
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10 | 197 | November 18, 2024 |