Hello Creators,
Today, we’re excited to announce that Roblox Groups has now been renamed to Roblox Communities. We’re also introducing more capabilities for community admins and moderators with the highly requested Ban User feature, renaming the Exile User feature to Kick User, and updating the Open Cloud API. These changes align with our commitment to providing tools to help you better manage and build deeper connections with your users and active communities on Roblox.
Earlier this year at RDC, we shared our goal to make Communities the central place where creators can engage with their members, gather feedback, and connect with them directly on Roblox. When users join your community, it can get them excited about the content you post and bring in more users by widely sharing their excitement for the community. Plus, their feedback can help you make the right improvements for your experience, content, or community.
In addition, while Communities will be focused on engaging with your users, we have been building out a robust system for you to collaborate with fellow creators on what you’re building. This product continues to be called Groups, and will exist exclusively within Creator Hub. Work has been ongoing, including a new roles and permissions system, as well as revenue management features. Stay tuned for more updates!
What’s New
We’ve heard your feedback, and we’re excited to introduce Ban User, one of the most requested safety tools. Alongside the renamed Kick User, these features give community admins and moderators the control to maintain a positive, respectful environment by removing users who don’t follow their community’s guidelines. Finally, we’ve updated the Open Cloud API to make it easier to automatically assign group/community membership & roles.
Ban User: Community admins and moderators can now issue bans from their communities.
- Banned users are immediately removed from the community.
- Banned users will be unable to rejoin the community unless their ban status is reversed by a community admin or moderator.
- Community admins and moderators can be given permission to ban lower ranked users.
- Banning a user is at the community admin or moderators’ discretion, meaning Roblox will not issue or reverse bans made by the admins and moderators.
- Roblox will attempt to block detected alt accounts from joining when a member is banned from the community.
Exile User renamed to Kick User: Previously known as “Exile”, this tool allows community admins and moderators to temporarily remove members from the community.
- Relabeling “Exile” to “Kick” brings this feature in-line with community admin/moderator expectations and is more consistent with other community products they may be familiar with.
Open Cloud API Updates
- New Open Cloud endpoints to change a member’s role and update their membership in your community.
- You can use off-platform tooling to receive an event from your experience and update the rank in the group.
- For example, once a member plays your experience you can have your tooling call this API to give this user a role with higher permissions.
Looking Ahead
We’re also thrilled to share that we’re making great progress on Forums! Forums will be a dedicated space where users can provide feedback, discuss gameplay, and report issues. We’ve begun testing and our plan is to roll out Forums as part of Roblox Communities in early 2025.
As always, we appreciate your feedback and continued support. Let’s work together to create amazing experiences!
FAQs
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Can I appeal my ban from a Community to Roblox if I believe I was banned unfairly?
Community bans can be issued by community admins and moderators who have been granted permission to issue bans. Communities choose how to manage their own membership, including bans and kicks, at their discretion. Roblox will not override membership decisions made by community admins or moderators.
How can I get into the Forums early access?
We’re thrilled by the strong interest in Forums early access! Due to high demand, we’ve reached our current limit for participants and aren’t able to accept new requests right now. We appreciate your patience and can’t wait to roll out Forums with everyone.
