Yes, I know, website themes with extensions like Stylus exist, however they aren’t fully accurate and by far as of posting this the “2014-esque” theme is broken and no longer supported.
I decided to make my own recreation of the old website including a decorative Internet Explorer 7 window as a hub game where you can search for games by inputting their ID (like Rii Menu) and also favoriting them. There’s games like LegacyVerse and GoingTo2014 which also utilize the old roblox website as a hub but it is only used to play games within their own game, if you know what i mean, while this game I’m making will be used to join any existing game on ROBLOX which so far I haven’t seen be done before other than with the Xbox UI Launcher.
I’ve been completely reliant on Internet Archive alongside old screenshots for accuracy, been working on the entire thing solo.
Here is the game link if you wish to test and provide feedback
Unlike Xbox UI Launcher I currently do not have a way of making it grab games off the front page.
The project itself is incredibly barebones with only basic features like loading and joining games with an incomplete game page as well as loading the home page with your avatar and friends. I’m not sure if I’ll go around to ever making this fully complete as this is just a thing I originally wanted to use for myself. Including that I also wanted to make a mobile app simulator for the game.
Any opinions would be appreciated.
UPDATE 06/06/2025: ratings (currently non functional until i figure out how to grab them) and game description , the url and tab text also dynamically change
UPDATE 07/06/2025: Added these tabs under the game page, got the ratings to work, updated the way the explorer tabs work a bit and added the footer thingy, currently the only idea I have is to have the recommendations tab show completely random games from a select pool. You can also go to games by putting their link inside the url bar.
UPDATE 08/06/2025: Functional recommended tab under the game page, it has no algorithm and just pulls game IDs from a table. Most functionality is still kinda jank but it does the job for now
UPDATE 09/07/2025: A temporary solution has been added for better mobile support, including better scaling of things with the window. Also added functionality to recent games where each time you join a game through this one it will appear on recents though it’s still a bit buggy
PS: I know this is a bit of a devlog but I’m also looking for feedback and opinions if you have any
