It honestly seems like a cool change!
1 Like
Part of the confusion comes down to the dual meaning of regular.
Regular, as in common. This is often used in the context of regular vs premium
Regular, as in frequent.
Cant say this is the case for everyone else, but for me, my first instinct when seeing regular in this context was to think “unexceptional”.
1 Like
It may be that the admins want to head towards using the default trust levels of the Discourse forum software.
The default trust levels are as follows:
-
A Member is trusted enough to use all the basic features, but is a little limited. Mainly, members cannot access the Lounge category.
-
A Regular has consistent forum activity and regularly makes decent contributions to a community’s discussion, and is trusted enough to use more features. Especially the Lounge category. Though by default, it demands a lot of effort to attain and keep.
-
A Leader is trusted by staff to use a forum’s moderation functions, such as merging or editing posts that are not their own.
Here’s the official page on trust levels.
2 Likes
Not a fan of this Update.
I think its still necessary to have a trial period for new members who just joined, and I hope actual new members who joined recently are still treated as new for a set period of time like 2 months?
6 Likes
I have had my posts flagged before, but never suspended. Does this mean I can’t be promoted to Regular?
2 Likes
Glad to see! I’ve never been a fan of elitism and the old names felt like classic elitism. I’ve been a developer on Roblox since at least 2010, I proved my ability a long time ago on the old Forum. To than be called a “New Member” was honestly insulting in the context of ability.
I still disagree on measuring trust based on activity and disagree with calling trusted members regulars. A visitor at a coffee shop could be a regular, I still wouldn’t trust them behind the counter.
4 Likes
They only renamed the Trust Levels, there are no difference in permissions
Member has the same permissions as what New Member had
Regular has the same permissions as what Member had
5 Likes
Soo I go from being a New Member for life to a Member for life minus the new part! I feel official even though I visit regularly. Everything Roblox does is great! Can I have a solved check? I’m trying to learn enough to get a solved check under my belt. Not unlocking the forum for developers that keep coming back is a shame. You could probably literally be a member for life based on?
2 Likes
Agreed, however I feel like the name change could have used a less ambiguous name for regulars. That’s what several people seem to be pointing out.
1 Like
This question seems to have been lost in the noise. Wondering if we could get an answer on this?
2 Likes
Great update and all, new member was misleading as it implied either
- you were introduced to the devforum just recently, some users have been new members for years
- you were new to development
Member just didn’t feel that much special.
But there are old, inactive accounts from before the whole new member system and the regular trust level for them is misleading as well.
What about a “Legacy” trust level for those OG users? They would have the same permissions as a Regular, but not as misleading
5 Likes
Exactly, I’ve been a member for a year exactly (I got my anniversary badge today) and I’m still recognized as a “New Member”.
2 Likes
I am quite new to the devforum and all that really goes on here. Anyways that would be really annoying if you have been on here for a year and still says new member even though there are people that just joined a day ago with that rank.
Your account was only registered since 2017, I believe the new member system was implemented before that.
I don’t know the forum history, but I believe the way it worked in 2016-2019 was you could send an application to be in the devforums, and then you’d have the new member (aka member) role. Before that though, it was just full member (aka regular), and there are a few inactive accounts from before the new member system.
1 Like
This forum is huge and there is a lot of legacy content/users, so it’s not possible to always make everything fully backwards-compatible/consistent with the current way the trust levels / forum permissions are managed every time an improvement is made. There will be people in Regular that do not belong there that aren’t active so they don’t come up on the radar, and there will be badly written feature requests / bug reports in Platform Feedback from many years ago. That’s just how it is with making changes like this. (fixing this would be much too invasive and time-consuming) What’s important is that there is good consistency going forward.
7 Likes
sry if someone writed something as this
Personally i dislike this, because when I compare New member and Member, I can see the difference. But when I compare Member and Regular, they look same. I think, that there are some better names as Member and Veteran member.
2 Likes
Because you’re used to “New Member” and “Member”. As time passes by, you’ll get used to “Member” and “Regular”. I am still used to the former trust level names as well.
As for this…
Being a regular doesn’t mean you are a veteran. I was accepted in January of last year through the activity-based system, and promoted to Regular on August of the same year. Only 7 months difference.
Fun fact, it’s been 7 months since that day :P
1 Like
THX for reading my post.
But still, when is someone new to developer forums, he can get confused, bec there isn’t big difference.
nah, they’ll get used to it. There will be newer people every day, people who probably never in their life heard about new member and member. All it takes is some time 
2 Likes
Since nobody responded to this… I wouldn’t worry. As long as you don’t get flagged an excessive amount of times, your moderation record shouldn’t be an issue. Checking someone’s moderation record is mostly for people who get everything they make removed.
3 Likes