So a little background for the curious: this feature was actually scheduled to release a couple months ago, but didn’t end up shipping because it had the critical design flaw of allowing users to hide things like flashbang blindness to give them an edge in the game. This is why after a change in design only users with place edit permissions can toggle the UI.
This is definitely useful just for developers though – I used to have to replace the menu button with a transparent image in the ROBLOX assets folder to achieve this. There are also some potential improvements I’d love to see in the future:
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Allow users to hide ROBLOX (core) UI regardless of edit permissions
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ROBLOX UI doesn’t affect gameplay so there are no adverse effects here
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Allows users to take cinematic screenshots in games that don’t have developer-created UI
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Allows users to hide menu button for more immersive experience in games pursuing realism
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Allows users to shut off social experience with one key combination should they so wish
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Allow developers to flag UI elements as hidable / not hidable
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Default of hidable provides consistent user experience across games
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Default of not hidable maintains backwards compatibility for old games that are no longer maintained, but makes the feature significantly less useful as most games likely won’t manually take advantage of it
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Mention of shortcut in Menu > Help
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Mobile support somehow