As a Roblox developer and for developers, we all acknowledge that some Roblox updates are insanely great or updates that need proper feedback. I know I’m speaking for the millions of developers out there, but there are some updates that users particularly don’t want, nor probably even need, so I made this post to create a connection or a bond between Roblox and their members.
Idea
I suggest that adding a post/poll before any major update would improve updates a lot more. You can see constructive criticism, see if people like/dislike the update, and maybe even improve further. This way, mostly everybody will enjoy these type of updates. Sure, not everybody will like them, but at least a majority of the community agrees on something.
Reasoning
I proposed this idea because there are an insane amount of criticism from Roblox’s community, even people outside the community. Take Rthro for an example. I’m not trying to say that we all hate it, but most of the community lacks faith into it. Also, more players are drifting away from the platform.
Conclusion
I feel like adding a poll every update is important for me and the community because you can be verified by the community if the update is good for Roblox, and maybe even possibly increase the amount of players that join or come back on Roblox!
As much as this would be a great idea, it would have zero effect.
We can already reply to announcement posts and such, as well as hearting posts if we like them (hearting an announcement to signify we like an update - a lack of hearts shows the opposite, of course) but feedback to updates is basically pointless depending on what the update actually is.
In the past I’ve noticed (and even said this before) that Roblox will rush out updates they know people will dislike (audio update barely gave enough time for devs to recover/prepare, charging originally 100 robux for clothing uploads was released in under a week if memory serves correctly, and look at how under wraps the whole sunsetting r6 thing is for something that was supposed to be starting within the next few months)
In comparison however, they will gladly take as much time as they like for updates that people want/need (highlights took months, we still don’t have videos, we still don’t have public audios, it took literally more than several years for 2 factor and pins to be introduced after much begging, and the logging out cookies on ip changes feature took several years more on top of that as it was only released a few months ago)
With this in mind, if an update that people would obviously dislike is going to happen, it’s already either released or being released in/rolled out across a very short time with zero room to fix whatever is wrong with it (or toss it out entirely), and if people like an update that’s going to happen (if at all) it’s as good as marker on a whiteboard at that point and won’t get touched for far too long, no matter how much demand there is.