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Education Discussions about the reading and writing of IF for educational purposes, at all education levels. 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. 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. Forum Announcements Announcements from the administration of the IF Forum. 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. 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.
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NarraScope 2025 - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA - June 20-22, 2025
We are delighted to announce our sixth conference – NarraScope 2025! NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th to 22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We are anticipating record numbers of attendees, and we ho… |
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13 | 456 | March 7, 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 | 1717 | 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 | 1935 | 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 | 1621 | 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 | 1908 | February 28, 2019 |
| About the General category |
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0 | 1251 | February 25, 2019 |
| Introducing Ourselves |
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1680 | 228138 | June 7, 2025 |
| What's one positive/neutral thing that's happened today? |
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5118 | 60766 | June 16, 2025 |
| Going in-person to NarraScope 2025? |
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3 | 185 | June 15, 2025 |
| ChoiceBeat - Issue 14 |
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0 | 64 | June 15, 2025 |
| The Guild of Thieves for Android by StrandGames |
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1 | 80 | June 14, 2025 |
| The "Hooray for Future Plans" Thread (Plans for future stewardship of comps and community resources) |
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32 | 867 | June 13, 2025 |
| "Crystal Ball" Personalized Game Recommendations |
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20 | 309 | June 13, 2025 |
| Interactive Fiction feature for my newsletter |
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7 | 250 | June 13, 2025 |
| Off-topic video games thread |
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257 | 6953 | June 6, 2025 |
| Narrascope Showcase |
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3 | 140 | June 13, 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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44 | 2124 | June 12, 2025 |
| Announcing the IFTF Patreon! |
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15 | 176 | June 11, 2025 |
| What are you reading these days? |
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660 | 12456 | June 10, 2025 |
| Do you wear glasses? |
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53 | 982 | June 9, 2025 |
| Game Recommendations from "The Bat" - Poll Data (from you!) Wanted |
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1 | 149 | June 5, 2025 |
| Narrascope 2024 videos? |
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26 | 670 | June 5, 2025 |
| Seattle/Tacoma IF Meetup June 2025 |
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0 | 43 | June 5, 2025 |
| IFDB quarterly backup? |
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7 | 203 | June 5, 2025 |
| What are you listening to? |
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1216 | 19851 | June 4, 2025 |
| IFWiki reports for IFTF Board during 2025 |
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4 | 207 | June 2, 2025 |
| Movie Recommendations and Discussion |
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596 | 9014 | May 29, 2025 |
| Search box on IFWiki (case-insensitive suggestions wanted) |
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7 | 104 | May 25, 2025 |
| Radio K: Ask/Tell #12 |
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20 | 818 | May 25, 2025 |
| Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! |
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1 | 104 | May 23, 2025 |