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You are not alone. My experience has also seen drop-off suspiciously lower than ever since these changes have been implemented.
Don’t think it’s outage related. Unfortunately and respectfully, previous algorithm changes that have hindered experience engagement, no matter the significance, have a precedent of not being addressed: (see this, and this).
I don’t expect this change to be any different.
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If possible can you guys post this here:
We’re trying to get an engineer to look into it
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This update is terrible. I shouldn’t have to scroll down a wall of random games to find my continue sort. And no way to change it?? Furthermore, devs are complaining their home recommendations have tanked, wonder if this correlates to that, regardless of the explicitness in the post talking about how they supposedly didn’t change the algorithm. Maybe the actual appearance of the page might have it’s own implications??
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Any time you see an update like this assume the worst. This is literally awful.
This change had a huge negative impact on the CCU for many games including mine, this topic Huge Unexplained Drop in Home Recommendations - #37 by FP_Nation has a compilation of people that have suffered this change. Please look at it as the decrease in CCU is very significant.
When I realized that my game’s average CCU lowered unexpectedly I assumed it would recover later, but it hasn’t yet. I’m assuming the problem is this update.
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Has this actually rolled out yet? I’ve been checking over the past few weeks and I’ve not seen the “People You May Know” sort once
Edit: It is my personal opinion that the continue sort should always be at the top of the list - perhaps even above the friends section (i know its not currently like that anyway, but yeah)
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Hey Creators,
Thanks for all the great feedback so far on this announcement! We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
To clarify, the personalization update we announced relates to how sections on the homepage are positioned based on user engagement patterns. We’ve been building personalization through features like Recommended for You, Thumbnail Personalization, and dynamic sort ordering on the homepage, and we will continue to invest in this area.
We understand your desire for more control and customization, and appreciate your specific feedback around pinning favorites, customizing section order, reducing clutter, and improving the relevance of “Recommended For You.” We’re actively discussing these points as we plan future updates. We also noted the positive feedback about rediscovering experiences in Search through Recently Visited.
Your feedback is invaluable as we iterate and improve. We’re listening and will keep you updated.
Roblox Discovery Team
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I actually had a little chat about this with someone, the best way to make this possible is by letting the users manually curate their content instead of fully automating it.
In other words, the recommendation system could be improved by basing it on user input rather than full automation.
In other other words, we’re tired of automation choosing everything for us. Stop with this madness!!!
Anyways, here are some methods this could be done. I sure wish I had access to feature requests.
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We should be able to select certain genres and subgenres we are interested in, which will prevent us from being recommended anything outside of this genre. Upon selecting a genre, every subgenre should automatically be selected, however, you should be able to deselect some to blacklist them as well.
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I know the “Horror” subgenre works really weird, so if you blacklist a subgenre that shows up in other genres, it should automatically be blacklisted everywhere. Users will manually be able to select a blacklisted subgenre for specific main genres.
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Just to be more clear for the above point, if a user selects another main genre after blacklisting a recurring subgenre, it will also be blacklisted by default when selecting other genres, even if turned on for a specific main genre.
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Favorited games should not be recommended since… they’re already favorited and the user has an easy way to find them. Same with games a user is banned from. Games users have liked should be recommended to them still, but disliked games shouldn’t.
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We should get “like recommendation”, “dislike recommendation”, “refresh recommendations”, and “Refresh Algorithm” buttons.
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Like recommendation (Interested in this content) will favor similar games in the algorithm.
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Dislike recommendation (Not interested in this content) will do the opposite, remove the game from the recommended tab immediately, and prevent the disliked game from being recommended again.
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Refresh recommendations will give you the ability to automatically refresh the recommended page with new games based on your likes and dislikes, letting you curate content instantly. It’s sorta like the server list, if you refresh it and a friend joins, you’ll be able to see them.
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Refresh Algorithm (Discard former selections) should reset recommendations back to zero, with a confirmation warning. This will not reset the genre selections, there should be a separate button for that. This will reset all likes and dislikes (through the recommendation system, not for games) the user has made.
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Also, here’s a concern from a fellow developer about how the recommendation system works for different genders.
Hopefully a solution comes up.
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Can you clarify how exactly this is released? Is this fully rolled out as implied on the original topic or only partially?
As I’ve stated in my last reply on this topic, I’ve not seen any updates at all to my home page and the “People You May Know” sort has not showed once. However, when logging into another account on the same device, I can see this sort immediately.
What criteria is required for the “People You May Know” sort to appear?
Hi Creators,
Following the launch of dynamic ranking for People You May Know and Continue, we’re now bringing personalized positioning to Today’s Picks! This means Today’s Picks will now be positioned on Home based on users’ engagement patterns.
We’re adding this feature to provide you with:
- Enhanced Relevance: Your creations have the potential to reach a more targeted audience. The dynamic placement of Today’s Picks (and other sorts) optimizes for the right content to find the right user.
- Continued Visibility: While the positioning may adjust, Today’s Picks remains a valuable platform for curated content, ensuring your experiences are still discoverable by engaged users.
In the coming weeks, we’ll continue to evolve Home with dynamic positioning and new sorts, including the dynamic ranking of the Sponsored sort, helping your content reach targeted audiences and improve user discovery.
Please share any feedback with us below. Thank you!
Continue and Favorites to be at the top of the HOME page and not chosen by an AI. This is the feedback given in a majority of the posts here and hasn’t been addressed a SINGLE time FWIK.
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Sigh… When you guys will understand no one wants slop being at the top of their home page… I mean just look at this mess…
literally they can mess with ANYTHING else, just put continue and favorites at the top
it’s MY home page, I should be seeing stuff relevant to ME, charts is the page to discover new content as they stated themself
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Feedback: either give us manual personalization, keep things such as continue and favorites pinned to the top and have everything else shuffle, or just give us no personalization at all (aka static home page)
this dynamic AI position shifting is simply a hurdle and doesn’t actually help promote stuff, all it really does it motivate website users to forcefully turn it off
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Ah yes, thanks for recommending me a ripoff of another game roblox. You guys totally cooked with this one…
its a sponsored section, games pay to be there so irdk why you’re blaming roblox
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because they’re putting it at the very top, FORCING EVERYONE to scroll past them, when a large amount of players simply just want three things from the home page, those being(in this order)
Friends
Continue
Favorites
they can do whatever they want after those three, I honestly don’t care, but stop making us HAVE to scroll past often ripoff/junk games, just give us what we actually will use/care about instead of having what I would argue is probably one of the worst things anyone/thing can do to their homepage, and that’s have it “dynamic”.
anyway, now to rant not specifically to you, but more-so towards the entire post
a homepage should be static, it should stay nearly identical during it’s lifetime, having the homepage reorganize itself adds confusion
Also with the addition of how many “sponsored” and “recommended”(“For You” is just relabeled “recommended”, and you can’t change my mind) things they put in, it just looks like roblox is trying to milk us of any and all revenue they can, rather than caring about what their playerbase wishes
I understand roblox is a company and needs to make money, but honestly, if you drive a decent portion of your players away, will you actually profit more from forcing players to look at sponsored games
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he was complaining about the recommendations not the placement