Players got renamed to visitors, games are experiences, and now friends are just connections, Roblox is completely disconnected from their audience. We know how important safety, well-being and connection is to creators and everyone on Roblox; it’s important to us too and foundational to everything we do. These tools and settings are part of our efforts to make sure everyone has the right controls to keep their time on Roblox positive, safe, and appropriate for their age.
This change won’t cause any breaking changes to the APIs you’re currently using for friend-related functionalities. If you’ve built custom UI or tools in your experiences that reference “Friends”, we recommend updating these references to “Connections” to align with our new terminology. As our platform grew, users weren’t just “friending” close acquaintances; they were adding people for shared game objectives, collaborations, or general interest.
This new data center is a major milestone in our long-term commitment to Brazil and our community of creators and players there. Investing in cutting-edge infrastructure directly in this region shows how seriously Roblox takes the potential of Brazil. This data center means a better experience for users and an even stronger foundation for creator innovation. Most of all, it shows our belief in the future of Brazilian creators– and we’re just getting started.
“OOF” is back as default sound on Roblox!
- Currently this seems to be the only forum people have found explaining the issue.
- This helps us ensure developmentally appropriate features are enabled for the right users, providing a more tailored and trusted experience for everyone.
- These tools and settings are part of our efforts to make sure everyone has the right controls to keep their time on Roblox positive, safe, and appropriate for their age.
- Renaming “Friends” to Connections across the platform.
- We are dedicated to supporting experiences that are both deeply engaging and empowering for players of all ages, while continuously innovating how all users connect and interact.
In addition, Roblox does not support sharing photos or videos in chat regardless of age. As we scale to 1 billion users our vision extends beyond simply playing and socializing. We are building a platform where people can collaborate, learn, create, and gather in digital spaces of all sizes.
I found numerous users were experiencing issues when accessing private server links. Currently this seems to be the only forum people have found explaining the issue. There are other platforms for this, I don’t know why Roblox keeps pushing this metaverse nonsense onto a gaming platform.
They are still continuing to push an stupid “immersive” world, where dating will soon be allowed. I do not know, who made this stupid embarrassing choice of the management, but this is absolutely stupid. Our efforts to make sure everyone has the right controls to keep their time on Roblox positive, safe, and appropriate for their age. This topic was automatically closed 14 days after the last reply. I can’t believe Brazil servers are finally coming, we’ve been asking for them for DECADES. That would be fair… if they didn’t already have Brazilian servers.
Ultimately, this helps us continue leading on safety by proactively shaping a clearer, more secure, and positive social experience for everyone on Roblox. I’m sorry, but this change is absolutely disgusting, stupid and embarassing. Renaming Friends to connections, sounds absolutely terrible. Dude, seriously, THERE are CHILDREN playing the gaming platform. With the introduction of Trusted Connections, more users interacting in your experiences may now have access to these richer communication tools. Think about how your game mechanics can benefit from users being able to speak openly or or engage in less filtered text chat with their Trusted Connections.
- Calling friends now “connections” on roblox is the most embarassing change I’ve ever seen.
- I mean, yes, this seems technical, but good to know.
- You can make it as solo or, as maximum, with five friends.
- That would be fair… if they didn’t already have Brazilian servers.
- The fact that they said “broken ground” suggests that they’re actually building the physical data center from scratch.
- If you are interested in participating send a message indicating your skills and showing some things you have worked on to @divad008 in a Direct Message in the Development Forum.
I wouldn’t say “fail”, i mean, there are really good developers out there, and just because you didn’t won doesn’t mean you’re not good. Ml they will be unanswered, but I still must ask them.If some questions are stupid or you just don’t want to answer them – skip it, but please don’t just ignore other questions. This is basically a remote game jam where Developer Engagement Team provides you a deadline to make a game based on the upcoming theme. You can make it as solo or, as maximum, with five friends. Rewards will be distributed in September after the event.
Stop. This is a gaming platform.
The fact that they said “broken ground” suggests that they’re actually building the physical data center from scratch. It’s possible that the testing servers were just rented from local providers or were generic leased office spaces that housed the test server equipment. With the upcoming servers in Brazil, what will be the environmental impact, particularly in terms of carbon footprint? I apologize if I’m being a bit too focused on this, but it’s something I’m really curious about. Anyway, I do know a lot of people from South America that play Roblox.
This meant the term “friend” became a broad umbrella that didn’t accurately reflect the varying levels of trust and familiarity within a user’s network. We want to explain the thinking behind our decision to rename “Friends” to Connections. From Roblox’s inception as “DynaBlocks” in 2004 (officially Roblox in 2006), social interaction and building community have always been core to our experience.
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This topic was automatically opened after 9 minutes. We’re excited to bring back such an iconic sound to the platform. There’s also a number of other character sounds beyond “Died”. The quickest way to replace the default character sounds in Roblox is to edit the RbxCharacterSounds LocalScript. Roblox HAS To protect children, not ATTACKING Them with people who are 18+ saying bad stuff in the chat with NO FILTERS.
This additional freedom to chat more openly with trusted connections reduces the incentive for teens to move interactions off platform, where they may be exposed to greater risk. We are dedicated to supporting experiences that pin up bet are both deeply engaging and empowering for players of all ages, while continuously innovating how all users connect and interact. This month, we’re rolling out important updates to how users connect and communicate and announcing an expansion of our safety platform. I will never call Friends “connections”, doesn’t fit to the platform, and even having an chat for 18+ people to say stuff without filters, is absolutely dangerous to children under 9 or 13. I do not know why y’all making this change, but this has to litterally stop.
On everybody’s soul we are going to use Connections instead of Friends!! Jokes aside, the name is terrible, Roblox platform is neither LinkedIn or Meta. Nobody is going to rename “Friends” to “Connections”, in-fact, I’m sure people will make extensions to change the name back to “Friends” again. Seems like, Roblox did not stopped the metaverse.
