Hiding the Developer Console if it's opened

There it is - an XY problem has made its debut. And it makes a lot of bold assumptions.

Rehashing some things already said and adding a few new ones (I would hope):

  • This is a silly idea. Period. You’re wasting valuable production time on something that amounts to absolutely nothing.

  • Exploiters are most likely checking their own console, not Roblox’s, for errors with their own code.

  • How are custom consoles not as reliable as Roblox’s? You can easily make a better console or directly copy the behaviour of the Roblox console because the code isn’t closed source. It’s right in your file system.

  • You’re hampering the ability for users to check and report issues with your game which is awful UX. Enjoy many DMs about the game being broken and getting unnecessary frustrated by a problem you ultimately caused (unspecified behaviours, no logs, so on).

  • This can just be disabled. Please do not counter this with something about another script doing a check-in on it because that’ll be disabled too and so on. You don’t win a fight on another client’s machine.

Fix your game and stop trying to do this.

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