I have to age check to use devforum now

[OttoMusa]

As a developer, getting help from the community is crucial if I want reliable help. I don’t want to age check because I don’t want my personal information on Roblox as they already had a leak the other day. It was already quite difficult for me to get dev forum post access, now I need to age check to use devforum now? What’s next? I need an age check to make games? I need an age check to buy robux, play games and make friends??? I can honestly see that happening. It’s so crazy how Roblox was only a few months ago compared to now. Until fall of 2025, we were able to chat, publish games publicly, upload clothes and t-shirts, there was no maturity label requirement, minimal lawsuits, not much AI bs. At this point, slenders are starting to become nostalgic. 2020 is starting to feel like old Roblox now. Due to these garbage updates, I don’t even feel motivated to continue working on my game anymore. Will David just resign already?

[nevergiveyourid]

Thank you. Biometric scans are not worth it. Protecting your personal information is more important than being able to talk on a block game.

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50 Million Roblox Login Records Allegedly for Sale

The hack you’re talking about says it’s from infostealer malware. As long as you don’t run random apps and use reliable security software, you should be fine. But change your passwords, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

[JamJamieofficial (Rooster)]

I will rather just get silenced for not cooperating with biometric violations in 7 days.

[angrybirdsrio42 (Angry)]

Honestly, I have lost my motivation to work on my own games too, and its gotten to the point where I work on my own like once every other week

[CoderMan_Roblox (CryptedCoder)]

I dont have to age check to use devforum

[MaddyRing]

i wish i was back in the era of the emo slenders

[jeziskrista (Crook)]

Crazy to think of but honestly sure, why not. I mean, there were almost ZERO restrictions. Now we have Age-Checks, dumb updates and honestly much worser stuff. The 2015-2018 was the golden era for me, though.

[MaddyRing]

i dont know how that looks bc for me chat is completely restricted from rumors i heard theres a lock symobl and ., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , but from the devforum i think its true

[nevergiveyourid]

It is true.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@nevergiveyourid

here is a reconstructed source code snippet for how the locked chats work:

local Config = ExpChat.Config
local getFFlagExpChatTelemetryEventTrigger = require(ExpChat.Flags.getFFlagExpChatTelemetryEventTrigger)
local ExpChatRandomCharChangeLowerBound = game:DefineFastInt("ExpChatRandomCharChangeLowerBound", -5)
local ExpChatRandomCharChangeUpperBound = game:DefineFastInt("ExpChatRandomCharChangeUpperBound", 5)

function mapByMessageIdInOrderHiddenMessage(arg1, arg2)
    local message = arg2.userMessageIntent
    local messageLen = string.len(message.Text)
    local randomCharChange = math.random(math.max(ExpChatRandomCharChangeLowerBound, -(messageLen - 1)), ExpChatRandomCharChangeUpperBound)
    local text = string.rep(Config.DOT_TEXT, messageLen + randomCharChange)
    return mapByMessageIdInOrderHelper(arg1, {
        userId = nil,
        prefixText = Config.LOCK_EMOJI .. " :",
        text = text,
        textChannel = message.TextChannel,
        messageId = message.MessageId,
        status = message.Status,
        timestamp = message.Timestamp,
        isVisibleInBubbleChat = false,
        isVisibleInChatWindow = true,
        textChatMessageInstance = getFFlagExpChatTelemetryEventTrigger() and message or nil,
        isHiddenMessage = true
    })
end

The dots appear to be randomly generated based on message length.

[OttoMusa]

We will on March 18, not right now