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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!
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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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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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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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