# Flash Flash Revolution

> Flash Flash Revolution (FFR) is a free online rhythm game and community,
> running since 2002. Players hit notes in time with music across thousands
> of community-created step charts ("levels"), earn scores and ranks, keep
> public profiles, and discuss the game on the forums.

This file curates the site's main entry points for crawlers and AI agents.
The complete URL inventory (news posts, songs, forum threads, and active
player profiles — ~1.6M URLs) is in the XML sitemap.

## Main sections

- [Home](https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/): site front page and latest news.
- [Community Forums](https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/): discussion, support, and announcements.
- [Sitemap index](https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/sitemap.xml): links to all child sitemaps (posts, songs, threads, profiles).
- [robots.txt](https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/robots.txt): crawl directives.

## URL patterns

- Song / level stats: `https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/levelstats.php?level=N` (N = level ID; the full list is in the songs sitemap).
- Player profiles: `https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/profile/USERNAME/` (public profile pages; the full list of active players is in the profiles sitemaps).
- Forum threads: `https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/node/ID` (canonical thread URLs; the full list is in the threads sitemaps).
- News posts: `https://www.flashflashrevolution.com/CATEGORY/POST-SLUG/` (WordPress permalinks; the full list is in the posts sitemap).

## Notes for crawlers

- Prefer the XML sitemap for discovery; it carries per-URL lastmod where available.
- `/dev`, `/dev_v4`, `/leaderboards`, and `/cdn-cgi/` are disallowed in robots.txt.
- The `/api/` endpoint is a credentialed game-data API, not a public document set.