I can’t find an announcement about this change, nor the removal of the Friends Playing sort. If one was made, community sentiment could be given on these changes. Although I’ve seen most complain about the changes as they dislike them, that could just be the vocal minority.
Respectfully, I feel as though the Search and Discovery team are not effectively taking the community into account where they should be. This developer forum is Roblox’s way of communicating with most of the player and developer side of it’s community. That core value of ‘Respecting the community’ can/should shine here, on the forums. And, I’d like to see it be used more by the Search and Discovery team in a way that is more visible to the community.
Of course tests will happen where you’re not able to full-on communicate in the form of an announcement. But, when there are 3 different feature requests asking for the ‘friends activity removal’ update to be altered, something should be said somewhere.
This isn’t a new issue. And, I don’t work at Roblox, so I can’t possibly know how things run. I know the ratio of feature requests & bug reports to staff is insane, but I feel like a lot more could be done. Roblox, as a whole, each team, and individual, needs to be taking the community into account. And, I don’t feel like that’s happening.