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Laura E. Hall Feb 3, 2025

Big news! For a decade, the Unforum was the backbone of the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) community. In 2017, a server crash took the site offline...until today

Now, the Unforum has been brought back as a static archive: http://forums.unfiction.com

Read about the restoration effort: https://cfia.org/preserving-the-unforum/

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Laura E. Hall

Want to know how it all worked?
@BrianEnigma posted about the complicated technical process of getting the old Unfiction forums up and running in order to capture a static snapshot: http://netninja.com/2025/02/09/reviving-the-unfiction-forums/

#ARG #ARGs #AlternateRealityGames #DigitalPreservation

Reviving the Unfiction Forums

I set out to take a static snapshot of the Unfiction forums. Its now-15-year-old server software crashed and fell offline 8 years ago. This is how I did it.

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