Is there a software-preservation angle to discuss? This came up in IF Archive volunteer chat.
I would imagine that you can’t just make the source of StoryNexus worlds publicly available. (But I am not a lawyer.) Is there a way to poll authors for permission to include their work in an exported dump? I’m imagining the (hypothetical!) possibility of a future “emulator” to make them playable again.
I gotta ask, is all…