New Roblox category just for Roblox outages and issues

[MrBagel2021 (MrBagel21)]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to get clear communication when Roblox is experiencing and outage or just a simple issue. Yes we have a Roblox Status Page, but there is no feature to subscribe to get notified about issues. Because of this I’m making this post so we can get a category just for Roblox outages and issues. The topics could be sent by Roblox engineers, or automated so right when it notices there is an issue with the website it sends an automated message that turns into a topic about the issue. I think this would really improve the communication between Developers and Roblox.

Should Roblox consider adding this?

• Yes
• No

More transparent communication to players when a critical service is down

My community is currently melting down confused that their data is gone (I have failsafes in place that don’t allow data to be overwritten if it can’t be loaded) due to a roblox outage with datastores. Would be nice if Roblox communicated critical services experiencing issues to players at an easy-to-read location on their app/website Would be really nice because then players don’t get the wrong idea that I messed with their data and that it’s gone and end up causing mass hysteria for me and m…

Please leave your opinion on this down below!

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

Why isn’t the official Roblox status page the go-to location? It is in real time and any issues that happen will update the page.

[VSCPlays]

you can’t subscribe to it, so you won’t receive any notifications when it goes down and have to check the page every minute

[jumpcats1234 (Jingus)]

Anyone can use Twitter or DownDetector instead.

[MrBagel2021 (MrBagel21)]

For Twitter, not everyone has a Twitter account, and for the down detector, it is not ran by Roblox so anyone could just mass report a fake bug.

[VSCPlays]

DownDetector seems odd, I clicked on the UAE and it’s still english, but when Saudi Arabia, Egypt or any other Arabic country is clicked, it’s changed to arabic, and The United Arab Emirates speaks arabic as they have “Arab” in their name, also people in the united states always mass reports every day

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Twitter is also odd, not everyone have an account and you must be 13+ to enter there (You must be 13+ to access the devforums but some categories doesn’t require you to log in to see) and 45% of the players are under 13, and they don’t play roblox at the weekdays as they have school and they caused roblox to go down every saturday (people blamed preston but it’s not him obviously)

[2jammers]

Well it is Preston technically.

[cpguy5089]

@VegetationBush

It is in real time

It’s not realtime. Source: Every time Roblox goes down or has some sort of outage, it doesn’t update despite saying “Updated a few seconds ago” and will say everything is normal for unspecified amounts of time (in extremely rare occasions even going well over 6 hours without a sign of anything changing)

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As others are saying, downdetector (or similar forms of “mass complaint” pages like checking big Roblox discords for high activity) are your best hope currently for seeing if it’s just you or if there’s something actually abnormal going on.

[VSCPlays]

well how come? players can’t crash roblox as they don’t have the power to crash roblox, technically everyone in roblox (except for David Baszucki)

[2jammers]

Server load crashes servers, I suggest you research data overloading.

[MrBagel2021 (MrBagel21)]

Yes, this is true but the status category would just be for Roblox developers, so you would have to show proof that you have and actual game with at least 1K visits or something else that would show you are an actual developer.