Cannot join private servers via links

Bug Reports Roblox Application and Website Bugs
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#1

Browser: Firefox 132 on Windows 11
System information: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U 8GB w/ Radeon graphics

I had the ‘strict’ fingerprinting filter enabled, but added https://www.roblox.com as an exception.
I’ve also tried disabling my adblocker, uBlock Origin.

Started happening as of Friday this week (15th November).

Repo:
Clicking on a private server link like this one:

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will send me to the game page, but the “Get ready to play” message does not appear.

Also, it appears the play button does not work at all (clicking on it results in… nothing happening?). ← This only happens when using a private server link. ctrl + r and ctrl + shift + r does not resolve the issue.

I tried to join games via the client (not via browser) and this does work (though it is impossible to join private servers without being friends with the owner this way).

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Unable to join private servers through invite links
#2

The same thing happens to me.

Browser: Chrome on Windows 10

I have no ad blockers, none of that type of stuff and randomly unable to join private servers.

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#3

There was a duplicate report by @BobRBLX
where he caught the error: “Uncaught ReferenceError: RobloxLaunch is not defined”

in his chrome browser (and apparently most other browsers).

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#4

This is happening to me too and it would be really neat if this didn’t happen
Literally just opens the page and then does absolutely nothing

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#5

This happened during the weekend so I don’t think we should expect a response until a few business days…

#6

this appears to happen only on specific accounts, I’m guessing roblox is doing some sort of A/B testing, on the image the bottom part is a functional part of the page, and the top part is the new one with Google Analytics (RobloxLaunch._GoogleAnalyticsCallBack) that doesn’t work

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if you want to join on an account for which vip links don’t work, open the vip link, inspect element or press f12, paste this script into the console (don’t paste if you don’t trust the script)

var content = document.getElementsByClassName("content")[0].textContent;
content = content.slice(content.indexOf("xLaunch.Request")+55);
content = content.substring(0,content.indexOf(")")).replace(", null","");
console.log("Roblox.GameLauncher.joinPrivateGame("+content+");")

it will output a command under it like Roblox.GameLauncher.joinPrivateGame(…), paste that into another Roblox window which isn’t a vip link and it will join the server

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Can't join roblox private server links
#7

Code doesn’t work for me.

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#8

you posted an unrelated error, all.js is not what the google chrome console is called (which actually is VM###), once again this code needs to be ran on a page of an active vip link, if it doesn’t work try refreshing, this will only work if you see this error:
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#9

You can press override content and delete that line which is the currently way I am doing it

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#10

I see this error, yet it still does not work. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

#11

I got the link though when I paste it in, doesn’t seem to work.

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#12

you have to paste Roblox.GameLauncher.joinPrivateGame(…) into the console of another Roblox window which is functional (non vip link), you can even paste it in the home page

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#13

Thank you very much, you guys are very helpful.

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#14

Mildly surprising that not a single Roblox staff member has interacted with this post…
Not even the “logged in our database” guy has showed up.

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#15

Sorry for being late to this. We’ll investigate and follow up with updates.

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#16

You jinxed it, and they gave you a non-copy-pasted response apologizing for the delays too :sob: :joy:

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#17

Darn it. My bad guys, I guess this bug is going to be fixed within 2-5 business years.

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#18

I don’t know anything about what I’m going to say but some users have reported that they are required to log into roblox (while they are already logged in) when they click on private server links

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#19

I am having this issue right now too, few days ago I was able to use the method you provided.

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#20

Did not have this issue yesterday, but woke up with it today.
When I open a https://www.roblox.com/share?code=[shareCode]&type=Server link it sends me to the login page, but if i alredy have the https://www.roblox.com/games/[PlaceId]/[Name]?privateServerLinkCode=[code] link I can still use the previous roundabout solution (provided by kornelek09) to join private servers.

So the biggest issue im encountering is that i cannot get ?privteServerLinkCode because of the “share?Code” not functioning as intended.

Is that the issue that you upvoters also have?
If so, does anyone have any way to get the ?privateServerLinkCode from a share?Code.
I would highly appreciate it if someone could share such a method if that is the case.

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