Hi folks, I retitled the thread from “Members should be able to post in regular areas, until regular promotions come back” to “All forum users should have a path forward to be able to post in feature requests” after discussing with DarkPixlz in DM. Thanks DarkPixlz for accommodating!
In recent history we have solved many concerns mentioned originally on this thread:
- We have turned on the ability for everyone to reply to #updates:release-notes.
- For #bug-reports, after spending a lot of time and effort internally to scale up how we handle bugs across Roblox’s product engineering teams, we finally have a solution available here: The Big Bug Reporting Update.
- Everybody here in the current topic that made a post or Liked one of the posts (as of Mar 19) has had their join request accepted if they submitted one.
- For everybody else that participates here later than this reply, please follow the instructions in the linked announcement above on how to get your join request in. We are slowly accepting people from the backlog to make sure we don’t overwhelm internal teams, but it is our goal to clear out the backlog. It will take us some time before we’re caught up with requests so appreciate your patience here.
The remaining item is how we intake “feature request” kind of feedback from creators. This is currently still restricted to a group of people with no reasonable way to get access as a new creator coming into the forum.
In the future, we are going to revisit how this works, similar to what we did for bug reports. We are also going to take a look into if the “feature request” categories right now are working as creators expect or if we should completely overhaul how we intake non-bug-report feedback (maybe that means deprecating “feature request” categories and replacing it with something in a different form).
This is all still being discussed and there is no concrete timeline or approach in place yet, but I wanted to let you know that we are still thinking about this problem and I expect that we will solve it in the future similar to what we have done recently with bug reporting.
I also want to highlight we have done significant improvements outside of “feature requests” to give you an opportunity to comment on our roadmap and direction, with the Roblox Creator Roadmap and with AMAs (1, 2) with our engineering/product leadership.
The overall goal we have remains the same: if you have access to a Roblox feature and are an active user of the product, you should have a way forward to give us your feedback. The goal is not to restrict this, we just need to overcome any scale limitations and making the process efficient, so that we’re not just taking your feedback and then not being able to action or respond to it in a way that respects your time and effort.
Thank you so much for everyone who weighed in on this topic so far and for your patience as we work through these problems.