As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to choose who is able to invite me to team create or choose which users are allowed to collaborate with me.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because a lot of developers, star creators and ugc makers, might want to add fans to their friends list, however they might only want to let their real friends join them in experiences or add them to collaboration.
(In this post I will also be reffering to “Groups” as “Communities” because of the upcoming updates that were shown at RDC24)
Roblox’s privacy settings received a new look with the Parental controls update, which I honestly really like! However, I believe there’s a few features that a lot of developers might take advantage of, such as choosing who can add users to collaborations/team create or adding specific users only, to be able to join us in-games.
Let’s talk about collaboration first.
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Here’s a mockup of the settings tab in the privacy settings:
I would expect the page to be something similar to this. If you’re selecting “Custom” you would be prompted with a list where you can add up to 1000 total entities, users or communities/groups.
The prompt you receive in here, would be pretty similar to adding users to your private servers, where you have a list of groups and a list of users which can add you to team create.
The reason for this feature, is that a few developers, such as myself, will be accepting a few more “Fans” into the friends list once the friends list update will be out, and I’d like to make sure not everybody can add me to “Team Create” because you never know if somebody’s account gets hacked into, or the user just wants to create inappropriate experiences on their profile, and this would keep people away from getting their accounts falsely moderated or terminated, because of somebody in their friends list breaking the rules and inviting them to collaborate on that experience.
This would make sure that users aren’t added in team create without their consent.
Other privacy settings:
More Options
Who can join games:
I would be very happy, if I could choose whoever from my friends list is able to join me in experiences, as previously mentioned, I add people who are fans of mine, and also people I worked for on UGC Commissions.
I would like to be able to only allow people I talk with daily to join me in-games and not those that I added for commissions or stuff like that.
Similarity to the collaboration settings, there’s a “Custom” setting which would allow you to select usernames that can join you (or communities, if you’d like to invite all the members of a community to join you), as well as an option to allow all friends and members of communities/groups that the user owns.
Total Visits & Sales on group/community pages & Profile pages:
It would also be nice to have a “Total Visits & Total sales” Option for both users and groups to toggle on/off similar to how groups are able to show their total group funds if they choose to do that.
Profile Pages:
Group Pages:
These settings would allow more players, than just game developers to showcase their achievements on their profile.
With this change, I would also love to see total sales & visits from owned groups on the user’s profile, as well as visits & sales from items & experiences they’re added to, as a collaborator.
