When a user deactivates their account in the Roblox app, it will show in the friends list that their account has been deleted when they have just disabled it and can reactivate it at any time.
Roblox should have a separate message for when a user deactivates their account, as it is not a real account “Deletion.” Some people need breaks and could cause people to unadd each other when there account shows as deleted on the app.
TLDR: When an account is terminated, it should say “Account Deleted” as normal. When deactivated, it should read “Account Disabled.”
PLEASE FIX THIS! We should be able to know if the person actually got terminated or if it’s just them deactivating their account. We must keep in mind that some people abuse the deactivating system to get advantage in certain situations (for example: traders/hoarders deactivate to make their items seem rarer so they can mislead people into thinking an item’s copy got deleted, or bad actors who deactivate as an attempt to get away with something they did/flee the situation, etc.), if you fixed this it would be HUGE.
You specifically only want this to cope, the initial user I doubt shares the same seething that you do, this is more of a feature request than anything, if your going to argue about a feature that should be added to the platform, you probably shouldn’t list reasons why you’d genuinely stalk somebody after they’ve deactivated.
Roblox appears to treat disabled accounts very similarly to deleted accounts with the exception that they can reactivate their account at any time. The users’ API (which afaik is the API in play here) returns that a deactivated user is banned. Given that there is no way to determine if a user has been deleted or just deactivated, I do have to wonder if this is just intended behaviour?
If it is entirely intended, I would like to see this message re-worded to include the fact that the user may be just temporarily not on the platform since ‘deleted’ implies permanence.
I do wonder if it’s some privacy-related aspect causing them to intentionally show deactivated accounts as banned. As someone who deals with bad actors on a daily who eventually have their accounts deleted, it’d be nice knowing whether their account has actually been deleted or whether they’ve just deactivated it to make it seem that way. The fact that there’s currently no way to find this out is extremely annoying.
This seems more of a feature request than a actual bug report
It could get renamed to “Account Deactivated” but not a seperate message since this is probably a intentional as a privacy feature
Deactivating your account is meant to hide it to other users and technically not show them that you still exist and it just seems like a privacy thing. While i would sometimes want to know if the user is actually terminated i wouldn’t want this as a actual feature since deactivating your account is meant for privacy not people to stalk you
A simple solution would probably just rename it to “Inactive” like it shows on the website
