New Communities Group Layout Breaks Newlines, Hides Social Links

The new Roblox communities layout introduces multiple user experience and display issues that significantly impact readability and engagement. Below are the specific problems encountered:

1. Group Descriptions Do Not Respect Newlines (Visual Clumping Issue)
As shown in the screenshot below, the group description entered on the configuration page includes proper newline formatting:

However, when viewed on the community page, all newlines are ignored and the entire description is displayed as one clumped paragraph:

This makes it extremely difficult to read, especially when listing social links, event info, or multiple lines of text.

Newlines only appear correctly if the user clicks the “more” button to expand the description, which should not be necessary for basic formatting like line breaks. This is a serious downgrade in readability and overall UX.

2. “more” Button Is Poorly Styled
The “more” button is lowercase and visually outdated. It appears unstyled, like a generic hyperlink, and is not consistent with modern UI practices. This makes it easy to miss and contributes to users not expanding the description to view intended formatting. It should be capitalized (“More”) or replaced with a more contemporary button style.

3. Social Links Now Hidden Behind “More” Button
Previously, social links were visible directly on the group’s main page, increasing exposure and engagement with external communities like Discord and Twitter. Now, social links are only shown after clicking “more,” which drastically reduces their visibility and will likely result in fewer people joining linked servers or platforms.

There should be a setting in the group configuration to toggle whether social links are shown immediately or hidden behind the “more” button. This change feels like a regression and negatively impacts community outreach.

Unfortunately I don’t have before & after screenshots for any of these three issues, because the updated UI seems to be at 100% rollout right now. But if anyone has them on hand and wants to contribute to this report, feel free to do so!

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Yes, this bug is very disruptive, if it is a bug.

I am not sure why the description, as is, only shows no more than two lines of text and the “more” button gives this small pop up.

To add, because I couldn’t find another post about the new Communities/Group Layout, the logo is forced to be a circle. This obstructs every single existing logo that doesn’t neatly fit in a 360 degree circle, like logos that are square and rectangular.

Meanwhile the sidebar, all the logos have the rounded squares, as was previously used.

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Probably gonna be dismissed as a feature request, but I agree that it is annoying to have to check the “more” section for a group that may or may not even have social links in the first place.

If they do get moved, in my personal opinion, previous names should stay because nobody needs that information immediately.

Honestly, after further looking into it in random groups, the new descriptions can’t even support more than two lines of text anyway…

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This is clearly not a bug but entirely a design choice. Requesting aesthetic changes doesn’t really fit into this category either, such as:

The “more” label exists because there are social links underneath — so that’s still by design and indicates there’s more than just plain text in the group description. Again, this ties back to the first point and reinforces that it’s an intentional design choice, not a bug.

Honestly, I doubt the “more” button being fully lowercase is just a stylistic choice, it looks out-of-place, especially so compared to the typical “More…” button.

Although I guess dots would look a little strange with the underline.

No, it exists to view general extra information about the community, such as a description that gets cut off or previous names.

Social links are something you want a player to see the moment they click on your community. Not having them displayed negatively affects community owners.

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Issue #1 is a bug, issues #2 and #3 are more suggestions than bugs. The main bug being reported here is issue #1 and engineers can decide whether or not they action the other points. Let’s not have an argument about some text on a page.

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Social links being much more hidden feels like another attempt to make a last minute attempt at gettings numbers for Guilded (the massive banner you can enable) and keeping users on Roblox-owned platforms. although I have a feeling Guilded will be shutdown not long after community forums are released.

Just speculating, but either way, this design update feels half-done. Some buttons having smooth click animations, some none at all. It just feels nasty and inconsistent.

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Another thing is that logos are now broken. Most square logos are now cropped, and some of it is cut off, which just makes the logo terrible.

Example:

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I mean, that’s just how geometry works — but you can always tweak it again if needed. :skull_and_crossbones::pray:

Why though?
Why do group owners need to put up with this obvious nonsense?

Why should every single group logo have to be a circle? It’s not even a circle, its a frame. If you click and drag the group logo, you can see the full square version.

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This category is not meant for questioning why these changes happened — this is Roblox, and it’s a decision made by a lot of staff behind it. The bug report category is not the place to complain about that.

However, in my opinion, Roblox should offer an option to switch between square and circle frames, and leave that choice to the user. Alternatively, they could make the corners rounded — just like how Discord handles server icons. :pray:

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Fair enough,

There are other posts on different categories that I found where I can air my grievances.
(Nobody likes these updates)

But, circling back to earlier:

Is this in reference that the broken Group Descriptions, that they are only two lines and the new line spacing is not working, only showing the full correct description after clicking “more?” Is that still a bug or is that an actual design feature?

Hi, thank you for the report! The description not respecting newlines is indeed a bug. This issue should be fixed now (we have also adjusted the description to truncate after 1 line instead of 2 lines, with full description still visible by clicking the more button).

We hear the comments about the other issues (e.g. social links, rounded group logos); to note, these are intentional design choices made by the broader team. We are discussing the feedback internally, although we don’t have immediate plans to adjust them at this time.

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me when I only want users to click the guilded social link banner

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I am not a fan of “No bio yet.” text appearing on groups that don’t have any description, it should just be empty like before. One would assume that the group holders wrote that themselves and that happened to me too until I realized that this is intentional by Roblox. This feels like a downgrade.

I am also not a fan of Social Links being hidden behind the “More” Button. It reduces exposure for them and is just not needed. If this is meant to promote Guilded then it’s a pathetic attempt. It’s a terrible app and no one should use it. The announcement integration with groups is also terrible. Downgrading features or functionality that worked fine previously under the excuse of “modernisation” or “UI improvements” is absolutely stupid. Please listen to user feedback for once.

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Isn’t this less? That sorta defeats the purpose of even fixing the issue since you wouldn’t be able to see newlines without pressing “more” anyway, no?

Anyways, the description without clicking the “more” button is too short to convey any information now. I want to be able to see at least some stuff without pressing the “more” button, or to see if it’s even worth viewing the full description.

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It kind of makes sense that the staff made this decision, because if you look at the groups of really popular games and the ones that generate a lot of revenue, most of them have barely any description—or if they do, it’s just one sentence. For example, the group for Grow a Garden on Roblox doesn’t even have a description. Brookhaven’s group just says one sentence: “Brookhaven originally created by Wolfpaq, now developed by Voldex.” The group for Dead Rails also has just a one-liner welcoming people to the group.

Even the group for Steal a Brainrot, which recently had hundreds of thousands of concurrent players, has no description at all. The group for Forsaken literally just says “Hello there.” Even Adopt Me!, which is practically a corporate-level game that’s been active on the platform since 2017, only has a one-sentence group description.

So if you pay attention, these are arguably prime examples on the platform, since they represent some of the biggest success stories—and their attitude toward group descriptions is exactly that. Which is why it makes sense that engineers might have come to the conclusion that a single line can be enough for a group description.

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This sentence actually gets truncated too now.

I have to press the “more” button to even see a full sentence.

That’s absurd IMO.

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No? :skull_and_crossbones:

Studios, sure, but many other groups such as roleplay groups still use descriptions. And social links are quite hidden too now, which are used everywhere. However, guilded banner is still available which imo is probably just another attempt for Roblox to push guilded, like I mentioned a while back (which everyone is forced to use just for images on their shout etc).