Original instructions from pssst: "Post a link and picture of the rider in an obscure place in a track thereby setting your balloon. The person after you has to go pop it and place their own somewhere or on another track."
(Moving version of this thread here)
First balloon: https://freerider.app/frhd/971508
And an extra set while spelunking for fun, someone should try to get through number 6 here (the down tube), made it through once and then botched it.
hey guys. so two years ago, March 20, 2024, I released the first version of freerider.app.
Click here to see the full blog post.
Made a propeller required track, will publish in the next couple days. Here's a fun one: If you are using the propeller and the rider gets inverted, the propeller pushes in the opposite direction of pedaling. In this screenshot, pedaling pushing the rider left, the propeller pushes the rider right. Pedaling is slightly stronger depending on the terrain, but they almost cancel each other out.
what's up guys, got a new update for y'all.
so @Pie42 and I have been working on a new version of ghosts for a while now. the idea was seemingly simple: a ghost format that, instead of saving keypresses, would save the bike's position and state every frame.
this would allow riders to make ghosts using any mod, like propeller or mini-bike, and maybe most interestingly, rewind and slow-mode. another cool aspect of this ghost format is the potential for Live Rider! being able to send the current state of the vehicles at any moment works out pretty well.
with this new db, there's a cool opportunity for a new ghosting system and leaderboard. but there are a few issues: the fr.app "ecosystem" is very open and free. switching gears and locking it down hard enough to make a fair leaderboard would be contrary to the site's goals.
so for the moment, the ghosts are simply a fun way to share your replays, play with mods, and just have a good time. check the now-playing tab and click on a ghost or a live rider to have the camera focus on them and watch them play!
and please be aware, these ghosts are in beta. very little has been done to safeguard these leaderboards from being cheesed, and the ghosts themselves may have unforeseen bugs. maybe in the future things will be set-up to have a more competitive ghosting mode, but that'll be left for the future after community discussions.
hope you guys enjoy!
hello appers (my new name for frapp enjoyers i workshopped lmk lol). i am hosting a creativity month thread where all who enter endeavour to create one thing each day to post in this thread. could be a track, a photo, a poem, a recount of your day (wow year 1 throwback), a painting, a song, a recipe... idgaf what it is i just want to see some awesome creativity flowing
it starts this wednesday the 11th of march 12am gmt be there or be square. ONE creation each day idgaf how big or small it is. if you see this you MUST enter or ness will explode your account. tag your friendos to join ^.^
@Coager i want to see some movement in here big bro
im wondering about the possibility of adding "favourites" to the database, ala bhr style? in a way it would be similar to playlists just for the individual. im finding so many old classics on here that i love but dont look at often (usually unfeatured stuff, valdez by shep comes to mind). asking this with 0 idea of how difficult this would be to implement, but think it would fit the spirit of the site very well (and selfishly id really love it)
i doubt there'd be anyone on these forums that isn't already aware of this but just in case, the 2026 GHOSTING COLLAB is currently in the works. also posting this here cause the final track is gonna go on freerider.app (i hope) (lol)
original post from the lame forums:
what is the ghosting collab?
the ghosting collab is a thing that the community does every so often where we get together and make a really long and hard track! here are some examples of previous ghosting collabs:
2014 - https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/50123
2015 - https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/676621
2017 - https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/464513
2020 - https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/730436
to give you an idea of how these tracks play, here's RedOrBlue ghosting the most recent ghosting collab, the 2020 one.
why are you hosting this?
well, it's been a while since the last ghosting collab got finished, and i think one in the current era of the game could be neat. i believe this is also the first attempt at hosting one of these since the freerider.app editor came out, so i believe this one will be extra interesting with all the new tools available to us.
why hasn't there been any since 2020?
simply put, we tried. there have been two (?) other attempts at hosting the ghosting collab since 2020, but they unfortunately fell through. this is the first one that i've hosted, so this year i will try really hard to make sure this one gets completed.
how do i join?
just make a post in this thread letting us know that you're in, and you're part of the collab!
how is this even going to work?
previous ghosting collaborations have been made by one person receiving the code, adding their part, then getting the code passed on to the next person. however, this approach is vulnerable to dragging out the process, flakey collab members, etc. so this year i'm going to host it similar to how the This Can't Be Real Life community collab was constructed.
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/727034-this-cant-be-real-life
basically you guys will make your part separately and send them to me, and i will stich them all together into one track!
what should i put in my part?
just like previous collabs, anything goes. you could put in some really hard trial stuff, you could even make something really easy! that is also allowed. your part is allowed to have anything you like as long as it is possible with both bikes. this also comes with the caveat that if i don't think your part is good enough, or contains anything i find objectionable, i am allowed to modify anything i like within it. this will rarely happen though, as my standards are not that high and most of you are reasonable (i hope).
**how do i send the collab part to you?**
just send me a forums message with the code of your part. if you don't want to do that for some reason, discord is fine. (my account is @logestt7)
is there a deadline?
i'm gonna make the deadline 12:00 AM (GMT), March 14th. so this gives you roughly two months to work on your part. however if it's clear to a lot of people that they're not finishing their part, then i can extend the deadline.
any other question that someone may have
just ask in this thread and i'll try answer you. don't ask anything stupid though because then i'll call you stupid
people we possibly have working on this:
@loge_0 (me)
triip
@Sir__Human
@Eunos
@TPlacella
@Anonyymi
Cerasium
KidCharlemagne
@Hth
MuchoPanda
@Innominate
JustAGDFan
Egona
@funbunone
@Cryx
Clash06
@Ponjoja
ST4RSWillShine
@Coager
@nitro
hello free rider app community. i love you all. and so this here thread is an opportunity to ask me quite literally anything you like and i will reply with complete honesty and transparency. there are some ground rules though.
ONE:- if you are annoying... 
TWO:- if you ask something weird i will order @Pete to dox you.
THREE:- coager is dark as hell bro wtf 
FOUR:- anything that i write here in this thread is 100% TRUE. i do not possess the ability to lie. so dont think you can come into this thread with pete and "fact check" me. this rule guarantees that everything i say has already been fact checked with the relevant authorities.
hey guys, absolutely psyched to show you the latest revision to freerider.app.
if you know me, you know I'm super passionate about Free Rider tracks and history. I believe tracks are works of art, and as such deserve to be both preserved and showcased.
so without further ado, I'd like to unveil the freerider.app DB.
accessible by clicking the Import icon and clicking browse the database or by navigating to https://freerider.app/tracks, you will find:
over 960k tracks (and counting) from Free Rider HD,
over 1m tracks from Canvas Rider,
and ~4.5k tracks from the thought-to-be-lost Black Hat Rider database, courtesy of Renée.
in addition to the full archives, a personally curated DB of 1000 tracks is available to browse, with custom thumbnails and playlists, along with metadata such as collaborators, reuploads across databases, remixes, contest entries, and more.
and in an effort to have every track be playable as they were, all CR and BHR autos/hold-ups now fully work on freerider.app, and helicopter, truck, balloon, and blob can now be played as starting/base vehicles, no powerups needed.
I hope you guys enjoying playing through the archive. if you have any requests for tracks to be added to the DB or playlist ideas, feel free to share in the thread.
see the next post for part 2 of this revision!
Im bringing the music thread over to these forums
Post some tracks you're listening to, post some album charts, talk about what you like, etc, etc, you know the drill! 
Some things I have been listening to:
Orange (live) — Adrianne Lenker: I listened to this live album a few times but this time this track really stuck out, very beautiful and fills me with a kind of energy I want to ride out until I get bored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5Y2F9ebYY
SET ESTRAGADO 1.0 — d.silvestre, DJ VITTIN MG, DJ MR 011, DJ FERRARI DO TS, Dj Raffide:
Something very different but this track is crazy to me I didn't know Brazilian Phonk could have niche ambient experimental aura like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9AGVxcVitY
Peckham — username: Nice and serene chill vibe footwork https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLbZGbHeD1g
Good Magicians — Sidney Gish: Nice and catchy jovial vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD3ZOFjdwxE
Bomb S** — DJ Blackpower: My goat so goated I thought I listened to everything thoroughly but I still uncover releases I slept on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-cssT3fW-A
Birds — Electralane: Listened to one of their EPs ages ago but never tapped in until I stumbled across one of their songs a few weeks back which led me to listen to this album and it was surprisingly very solid with many W tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43AA5meBXg
I might post a weekly, biweekly, or monthly chart to keep the thread active or something. Here's my most recent monthly chart:
Happy posting! 
I was messing around with Triip's "Gate III" track in the editor, which uses some fancy portal technique to essentially lock an area of the track behind a portal, and I noticed that in fr.app editor it's broken, while in the frhd editor it works normally. Is this a difference in game physics?
As a related suggestion, could portals be visually connected in the editor by a line (like when you are placing them), even after they are placed? This would help keep track of which portals link to each other and where they go.
I have no idea how TAS works so this may not work at all.
Here's the idea: make a track with a slow, ten second wheelie that then leads into the track, but specify that if you're a REAL ONE you won't race past that wheelie section. The race begins at the first checkpoint, after the wheelie.
Would it be possible to make a ghost using TAS that wouldn't skip the wheelie section to create the fastest route?
I know the old forums had it so I wanted to add it to this one. but I suggestion I had was custom grid numbers and a grid offset because I'm making a track that has a lot of tunnels right now and its kinda annoying for me to count how many tiles there are this might make the grid settings thingy more cluttered but idk I think it would be cool
so why exactly does it change direction of the bike then you hit undo? it does this in the freeriderhd.com editor as well im just asking here because it just seems like the right place to ask. my guess is when kano was making the editor they made the undo shortcut before they put the button in, so when they added the undo button they just made it send a ctrl + z action to the editor, and z, of course, flips the bike
