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From: Andrew Plotkin <erkyr...@eblong.com>
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Subject: Re: I haven't visited in a few years. Is this newsgroup still active?
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:26:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Here, Fiziwig <fizi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm seeing mostly spam. Are there still people here or has everybody
> migrated to web-based forum by now?

People are still here, but the discussion has essentially all moved to
intfiction.org.
 
> The reason I ask is I'm working on a server-side IF engine for playing
> IF games directly in a browser.

You're not the only one. :) TADS 3.1 allows that sort of setup now,
and I believe Dave Cornelson is working on something similar which is
Inform-based. 

We've already had a lot of movement towards client-side solutions (IF
*entirely* in a browser, no server component).

--Z

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