Hello,
So I am planning on creating a bug report system in which a user opens a UI and types in whatever the bug was, then clicks send, where it is sent to my discord server. My question is whether or not I need to filter the text the user is inputting in this UI?
Yes, everything thing you make should be censored.
Even if the text will not be viewable by anyone but the player inputting it?
If other players aren’t viewing the content of the message, (in-game) then i’d say its fine to leave it unfiltered.
Honestly, it’s always good to be safe.
If the the text is not able to be viewed by anybody but the writer then it is fine as far as im concerned, since players can put and change whatever they want with local scripts. So even if you filtered it there is nothing stopping the user from removing the call to filter the text (assuming this is all handled on client as only they can see).
False. You need to filter everything even if it’s just for that player to see.
Thats like saying a player exploited and inserted a local script to put a unfiltered message on their screen and the game’s dev may face consequences.
Furthermore in chat you can type anything and see what you have types, doesn’t mean other players can see it if it gets filtered.
I mean those are the rules… any and every inputted text must go through the filter. Pretty sure there’s another topic on this in the forum.
@BuDeep You do need to filter any text that a player submits to make sure they can’t send any personal information.
@Tyfor_Dev If the text is being saved and then retrieved again at a later time then it does have to be filtered. But if the client typed something in and is only seeing it for themselves during that one session, it doesn’t need to be filtered for the person who typed it.
Ye, mb for not pointing that out. I assumed he was firing the reports to a discord server, not a roblox datastore.
They are going to a discord server.
But cindering makes a good point in that the filter would block a player from entering any sensitive info. Though it will be difficult to read the bug reports since they will be mostly hashtags haha
Pretty sure ROBLOX enforces that any form of chatting should be friendly and censored.