At the end of the day, a human readable format is going to be less efficient than a binary one. And when it comes to delivering game files to clients, they have to be as efficient as possible.
You’re welcome to argue in favor of a replacement to XML as a format (I would be open to something that’s easier to parse and write a schema for…) but you’ll have to trust me that giant tables of data aren’t any better.
Or even better, don’t take my word for it. Here’s Crossroads written as a Lua table:
I’m not sure how you’d write this in JSON but I’d imagine it’d be very similar. And equally undesirable.
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).
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
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.
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.
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!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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.