Forums Are Now Live for All Community Owners

[JavaJiving]

Update: Community Walls are now read-only (effective today, December 1, 2025). Please use Community Forums as the dedicated space for all further engagement and discussions, offering more robust organization and better tools for connecting with your members.

Key Takeaways

• Forums are now available to all creators, providing a dedicated space for more meaningful conversations.
• To enable Forums, navigate to your Community Admin Page and find the new Forums tab to get started.
• Key features of Forums include custom categories, permission management, and built-in moderation tools.
• With the full launch of Community Forums, we will be making the existing Community Walls read-only on December 1, 2025. This means that no additional posts can be added to a Wall and you can still view your content.

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Hey Creators,

Last year at RDC 2024, we announced that Forums were in development to give you better ways to connect and interact within your communities. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Forums is here! Forums are now available to all communities, providing a dedicated space for more meaningful conversations. This anticipated feature gives your members a centralized place to discuss gameplay, share feedback, report issues, and build stronger connections with each other—a powerful tool to help you grow and engage with your community.

Key Features and How to Get Started

We’ve made the process simple so you can launch your Forum quickly. To enable it, navigate to your Community Admin Page. You’ll find a new Forums tab where you can get started with just a few clicks.

Here’s how to enable your forums:

1. From your community’s page, navigate to the Controls box on the right and click the Configure Community button. This will take you to the Community Admin Page.

2. Go to the new settings tab labeled Forums.

3. Click Get Started. Your Forum will then be live!

After enabling the feature, you can also customize your categories. This includes the ability to add new categories, as well as to rename, archive, or delete existing ones. As a helpful tip, categories are arranged alphabetically, so you can change their order by updating the category name.

• Customize Categories: Tailor your Forum by changing default categories (Discussions, Feedback, Suggestions, Support & Help) or creating new ones for topics like experience updates, events, or bug reports.

  

• Manage Permissions: Use your existing community roles to control who can post, comment, moderate, and more. Go to the Roles tab to set these permissions.

• Moderate Content: We’re committed to fostering a safe and productive environment within Forums, where everyone must adhere to our Community Standards. To ensure this, access to Forums is limited to logged-in members who are 13 or older. Built-in moderation tools make it easy to keep your Forum running smoothly. Quickly delete posts, lock discussions, and use Blocked Words to help maintain a safe and productive community.

An Update on Community Walls

With the full launch of Community Forums, we will be making the existing Community Walls read-only on December 1, 2025. This means that no additional posts can be added to a Wall, but you can still view your content. By early 2026, we will fully remove Walls. We will share any updates here on the DevForum.

We believe Forums provide a more robust and organized space for community conversations, giving you and your members better tools to connect and engage.

What’s Next?

This is just the beginning. We’ll continue to improve Forums by listening to your feedback. We’re already working on a top request to give you category-level permissions. Stay tuned for this and more updates.

We can’t wait to see how you use this new space to connect with your community!

The Roblox Community Team

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FAQs

How are Forums different from Walls?

• Forums introduce:

  • Comments & replies to foster discussion
  • Categories to organize conversations
  • Reactions to quickly respond to posts
  • Moderation tools like locking a post and deciding who can post or comment
  • Pinned posts to highlight important content

  Forums are viewable by all users, but only those with posting permissions (set by the owner or admin) can contribute.

What happens to my data from Walls?

• Wall posts won’t be migrated to Forums. Walls will be read-only on December 1, 2025 and will be removed in early 2026. Afterwards, Wall content won’t be accessible on Roblox, so please save anything you want to keep. Forums is intended to replace Walls as the primary place for community interaction.

Is there an age restriction on Forums?

• Yes. Like Walls, Forums are currently only available to logged-in users aged 13 and older.

How are Forums moderated?

• Forums moderation is a multi-layered process that combines automated systems, built-in tools, and community involvement to promote a safe and productive environment.

  • Moderator Tools: You have direct control over your community with tools to:
    • Manage Permissions: Assign roles to members, granting them specific moderation abilities.
    • Control Content: Delete posts, lock discussions, and use a customizable Blocked Words list.
  • Ban Users: Ability to ban users from your community.
  • Platform Safety Systems: All forum content is automatically scanned by the platform’s safety filters to block inappropriate content before it’s posted.
  • Community Signals: Users and moderators can report abuse, flagging issues for review.

How can I keep my Forums safe from spammy content?

• We automatically detect and remove spam messages that do not meet our Community Standards. You can also reduce spam and unwanted content by using:

  • Roles & permissions to allow posting only from trusted members
  • Blocked Words, a content moderation tool that automatically blocks chosen words/phrases
  • Moderator tools to delete content and permanently ban repeat offenders
  • Verified Joins to only allow members with a certain level of account verification, helping prevent bots and spam
  • Report Abuse if you see something you think shouldn’t be on Roblox.

[ImFirstPlace]

Are you able to allow us to set permissions for each category individually? Currently the community level permissions apply to every category.

[HowToBasicGamesAcc (HowToBasicGamesDev)]

Oh, thank you Roblox for putting on Fourms up! Thank you for this because I want to put up fourms within my Community!

[Kilobiting (Tee Vee)]

@JavaJiving

As a helpful tip, categories are arranged alphabetically, so you can change their order by updating the category name.

Would Roblox ever consider letting us manually set the order instead of it always being alphabetical? I was really hoping for a way to organize it myself, but I was disappointed to see that option isn’t available. Overall, I love the forums as an idea, but this is my biggest gripe.

[birdmartinyt (The Fanboy)]

Great feature, although a bit disappointed that there’s legit 0 Guilded forum integration with this feature.

[idezye]

Forums are a nice addition, but can you please let us order categories manually by dragging them around? Having them named alphabetically is not ideal in every case, as some categories might be more important for your community. Numbering them is an option, but it doesn’t look too great.

[RobloxPhil2009 (Kobe)]

I already informed my Community member and immediately move to Forums. Sadly we can now only read the memories of our community wall until the given date of removing.

[ASTRAVIB3S (AstraVibes)]

Amazing feature, but, will be there more features to it or is it just categories and set permissions?

[XenoSynthesis]

Will there be a way to export our Group Walls? My community is over a decade old, and there are a lot of cherished memories there. Record-keeping would be nice, so no information is permanently lost.

[PeZsmistic]

Reverse sortable threads please!! Those 100+ reply threads in the example image are nonsense, currently this feature is not usable at that point because it takes forever to scroll down.

Also it’s not possible to have a category only devs can post in. I can’t have a changelog category for example, I have to allow anyone to post in it, and pin the most recent changelog threads so they are at the top.

Roblox should do so much more to help users preserve their historical data rather than making us write scripts that take hours to run.

Here’s a python script @TheNexusAvenger provided to help you archive your old group walls. To use this, put this script into a file renamed to “run.py” or something. Copy your cookie header (the huge one) out of browser devtools from a request in the network tab to roblox.com and put it in the indicated variable. Do the same for your group ID which is shown in the URL bar. If the script errors out, I think it can be restarted if you use the cursor from the last cached results file’s filename.

import json
import os
import requests
import time

GROUP_ID = 123456
COOKIE = "PUT_ENTIRE_BROWSER_COOKIE_HEADER_HERE"

cursor = None


if not os.path.exists("cache/"):
    os.mkdir("cache/")

while True:
    fileName = str(cursor) + ".json"
    if not cursor:
        fileName = "start.json"
    filePath = "cache/" + fileName

    if not os.path.exists(filePath):
        url = "https://groups.roblox.com/v2/groups/" + str(GROUP_ID) + "/wall/posts?limit=100&sortOrder=Desc"
        if cursor:
            url += "&cursor=" + cursor

        print(url)
        response = requests.get(url, headers={
            "Cookie": COOKIE,
        })
        if response.status_code == 429:
            print("Rate limit reached. Retrying in 60 seconds.")
            time.sleep(60)
            continue
        if response.status_code >= 500:
            print("Got status code " + str(response.status_code) + ". Retrying in 60 seconds.")
            time.sleep(60)
            continue
        if response.status_code != 200:
            raise RuntimeError("Got status code " + str(response.status_code) + ": " + response.text)
        with open(filePath, "w", encoding="utf8") as file:
            file.write(response.text)

    with open(filePath, encoding="utf8") as file:
        data = json.loads(file.read())
        if "nextPageCursor" in data.keys() and data["nextPageCursor"] is not None:
            cursor = data["nextPageCursor"]
        else:
            break

After running this I was able to have chatgpt write me further python scripts to process the downloaded data and reformat and put it all into a text file which I have archived somewhere. I can’t find this script right now, maybe later.

Here’s how to get the Cookie on Firefox.

@PeZsmistic

• Right click on the webpage and choose “Inspect”, or press Ctrl+Shift+i.
• Choose the Network tab in the thing that popped up.
• Refresh the webpage.
• You should see many green “200” entries in the network tab list.
• Click on one of the entries in the list that goes to some variant of “roblox.com”.
• In the side panel that opens, make sure you’re on the “headers” tab, and scroll down to the “Request Headers” section.
• One of the entries under the Request Headers section will be called “Cookie”. All of the text associated with that Cookie entry is what you should use for the script.

[Soundmoji]

I just tested this feature and i wish there would be a way to reply to locked posts or edit your own post as the owner when the thread itself is locked. Let’s say you have closed a feedback topic to avoid spam but still would like to reply to it

I also wish there would be a way to search for topics in catagories since theres currently no searchbar

[Real_Daytern (Daytern)]

Migrating to this new feature means keeping the positive sides of walls and organizing them better altogether.

I like how creating a post is as straightforward as it used to be on walls. We should now turn our heads to the current community wall and look at it one last time with nostalgia while our memories fade into a more advanced era.

[foodeggs7 (Nil_Chat)]

why we cant edit permision per catagory should be helpfull as i want to reserve an catogory for moderators only for annoucements etc where people can only reply but rn that aint posible

[H0LYC4RTE]

THANK YOU ROBLOX!!!

Edit: Once again I have accidentally replied to someone else. So sorry Daytern

[airilauz (AlexLikesTrains)]

Say goodbye to the Wall.

Make room for Forums.
Roblox is the next Discord.

We’ve been all waiting this feature for months

[Kilobiting (Tee Vee)]

I want to do the same but i think the best way to is by using apis. I do think someone should make an archive like how they did it with the forums

[ScrollFrameRotation (BannedFromTheDevFrm)]

@JavaJiving

To ensure this, access to Forums is limited to logged-in members who are 13 or older

so when you say “all community owners” you mean “everyone that we actually care about”

[Judgy_Oreo (phoenixwhitefire)]

… I think with everything going on it’s actually slightly wise on their part to add more age restrictions everywhere. This is protecting their younger users, they barely have any other incentive for restricting Forums to 13+ because that reduces community engagement.

[ScrollFrameRotation (BannedFromTheDevFrm)]

i agree, but as we all know, they only try to band-aid patch their problems instead of actually solving them. the reason of restricting things to 13+ is because of child predators or scams, but what they need to be doing is actually removing those issues