Changes to Roblox Product Development Process

[catalys_ms]

I didn’t literally imply that there are problems with serialising to XML but rather I was implying that some people find the formats to be flawed or inconvenient to use (see @jitlua’s post, they pointed out an issue).

[Lightning_Game27 (Elitriare)]

Great to see Roblox re-evaluating their priorities. Help the developers (small/big) who keep the platform fun and running.

[o7_9]

@Roblox

We are going to do a better job explaining our long-term plans, our thought process, and addressing concerns to not leave you guessing. This will give us a chance to have better conversations with you on the future of the platform.

This is definitely a good thing. I’ve been waiting for this one. Love to hear you guys are planning to have a better response to feedback on updates, thank you

[Reditect]

You can change the icons:

Custom Studio Interface (Themes and Icons)

Our designers are working on icon iteration in line with feedback received. In the meantime, here is how to create custom icon packs with new studio channel, this will later turn into its own devforum announcement. How To create a custom Icon Pack: This will guide you on how to specifically override the insertable object icons (any object icon you see in the explorer). I will provide a brief overview, the detailed specs we use can be found here https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-th…

I’d recommend this:

Vanilla 3 - The pragmatic icon set for Roblox Studio

[vanilla-header] Vanilla is a professionally-designed, function first icon pack for Roblox Studio. Every icon was drawn with glance-ability, clear forms and a consistent style in mind, to serve as effective landmarks in dense UI. A pixel-perfect duotone look ensures maximum legibility and an efficient usage of pixels to convey shapes, edges and depth. Geometric angles and sharp corners give a robotic edge, while round corners and occasional organic forms retain a friendly feel. [vanilla-…

Responses have been given on the icons, many infact. Some on the announcement itself. You can’t please everyone, new or old icons. Some prefer the new, some the old. You can also make your own now if you wish.

From the resources I linked, it seems they’ve communicated a ton and worked with the community on that issue. More of a response on that issue, I feel, would take away something else that would more benefit from a response.

An example of which could be developer made pause menus, or rather the lack of being able to create an effective one due to constant issues regarding CoreGui locked content.

[Reditect]

This is my ultimate goal, or idea at least. Something like this would be great. Imagine if we could tackle a different issue each month or so. Maybe like a zoom meeting or something.

I don’t want this to sound weird but it could be like a government. Roblox is a digital country in a way and we could have a form of gathering, voting, and discussion.

I could create so many 5 paragraph essays or a whole book regarding different issues that plague my and others overall experiences on this platform. Would love to discuss each with players, developers, and Roblox staff one at a time.

Way too pretentious here, but a modern digital version of Alexander Hamilton and the forming of the United States. It’s an opportunity, ‘a shot’… or something.

[OneEDM (EDM)]

@Roblox

We are going to do a better job explaining our long-term plans, our thought process, and addressing concerns to not leave you guessing. This will give us a chance to have better conversations with you on the future of the platform.

Really hoping this means we will get an update on Apple Silicon Support for the Client/ Studio (approaching 3 years). Many. feature. requests. and discussions have. been. made but Roblox has remained completely silent. Any sort of news would be appreciated, and a roadmap or just some update on what is going on would be fantastic. I think I speak for all Apple Silicon users that we would appreciate at least acknowledgement from Roblox.

I know creating a native version isn’t easy, and I understand it takes time, but the lack of communication when many developers have been asking for years has been extremely disheartening.

Sorry for the long post, I guess I am just passionate about it. Really hoping this new leadership holds fast to their word, and I wish you all the best!

[pankii_kust (pankii_krust)]

@Roblox

We are rolling back the recent “Team Create is the default for new experiences” beta. Thank you for your feedback. We will work to improve Team Create based on all of the concerns you have raised.

This is what i’m looking for, having to create a place with Team Create floods my place list so much even if i created a new file and enabled a setting where it turns Team Create off (my god they don’t function properly)

[BillB1ox (Will)]

Hello Nick and Tian!

Welcome to Roblox!

I am wondering if Apple Silicon support is going to come to Roblox and Roblox Studio soon, because Roblox takes up a lot of battery and Ram currently.

[OnceCrowned]

I’m very dissatisfied with the current way things are being run and I am hoping this will change that. My bug reports and feature requests have ALL been seemingly disregarded for months on end. There’s been a lack of communication between the developers and … developer relations… yea. I’m glad initiative is being taken.

[Lisen_n]

I believe to truly have real transparency something similar to a discord chat should be created for the top developers and those who communicate with them, forgive me if this is already a thing but this would create real transparency and not the façade that emails back and forth uphold.

Thank you Elttob

[zeroRiley]

Team Create saving automatically has been a lifesaver for my lack of common sense.

[santafatso28 (TheOlive)]

no further responses…
I get how you can’t respond to everything but on the post where you said you would hear from us you haven’t actually acknowledged us.

[SmoothJaidan]

Great that you heard and listened to feedback about this. Now, could you listen to the feedback about the new ad system regarding U13 users not being able to see other user generated ads?

[Sushiriceforlife]

if they do that they wont be coppa certified from a business standpoint its better for business

[SmoothJaidan]

But what about the COPPA agreement is violated? Preventing 3rd party sites from advertising to younger children U13 is understandable. But what’s wrong with user generated advertisements? They don’t track data of children U13, they never have…

[2jammers]

You know, I was thinking the whole ‘this is a good update cuz it stops kids from seeing ads’, but I forgot about the part where COPPA agreements would only be violated if the ads tracked you, which is impossible since it’s a completely random bidding system.

[SmoothJaidan]

Honestly, it was never a good idea. It’s horrible for business.

[2jammers]

Yeah, I don’t understand why they did it. It isn’t needed at all and just hurts everyone equally.

[Sushiriceforlife]

I think advertising in general/ads/clickbait is what is bad but then there is the part of actual game icons which are also clickbait… I have no idea

[ylwfrog]

This is great news. I’d like to see the documentation (in particular guides) cover end-to-end journeys. Developing guides with a comprehensive context of what’s the ultimate goal of the creator might help speed up learning and adoption of features. Look at how the various pages that cover rigs, animation, importing models, animationController etc are all there but ultimately disconnected and leave gaps to be learned elsewhere (searches outside of Roblox creator site).