In March of this year, all accounts within the UK had their connection lists hidden due to the UK’s Online Safety Act. This was seemingly done in order to comply with the act by ensuring that children living in the UK are not visible in other users’ connection lists. However, this also affects adults living in the UK like myself, and I personally have no reason at all to have my connection/follower/following list hidden (nor is it legally required).
It doesn’t make sense to blanket hide every UK users’ connection list when it should only apply to people under the age of 18. This can easily be fixed by adding a toggleable option to make it public/private in privacy settings.
It’d be nice to have my connections public to other connections I have. Other than that, I do think an option of “No One; Connections; Connections of Connections; Everyone” would be good.
Section 15(1): "This section sets out the duties to empower adult users which apply in relation to Category 1 services."
Section 15(2): "A duty to include in a service, to the extent that it is proportionate to do so, features which adult users may use or apply if they wish to increase their control over content to which this subsection applies."
Section 15(4): "A duty to ensure that all features included in a service in compliance with the duty set out in subsection (2) (“control features”) are made available to all adult users and are easy to access."
Section 15(5): "A duty to operate a service using a system or process which seeks to ensure that all registered adult users are offered the earliest possible opportunity, in relation to each control feature included in the service, to take a step indicating to the provider that— (a) the user wishes to retain the default setting for the feature... or (b) the user wishes to change the default setting for the feature."
Well since now everybody has to do an age check, I don’t see why roblox can’t allow 18+ verified people the option to choose their friends list visibility..