A bit ago this used to say 500+
A few days ago it was somewhere in the 490’s and now it’s down to 483. Have requests always been disappearing after a long while (if so, after how long?) or is this a new ‘feature’ related to the increased 1,000 friend limit?
*edit. A few hours later today it went down to 482. What’s up with the (sudden?) expiration?
Possible inactive accounts being deleted I suppose?
Still odd since I’ve had 500+ for the past 3-4 years now and its never changed
Ye, it’s been like that for me too. Not sure if I just so happened to be around 512 or so and then these accounts got wiped, but I will say it’s a rather strange timing of it dropping below ‘500+’ a few days after the 1,000 introduction.
Might have to give it a few days, but perhaps it’s happening for others soon too. Thanks for the thoughts!
I had a feeling this happened to me. I recenty looked at my friend requests and tried going to the last page and realized that alot of old friend requests are gone for some reason but i can still add terminated accounts etc
Interesting. Good to know I’m not the only one then.
The number has gone down again here. Didn’t accept anyone, neither do I consider it plausible anyone that another 15 from these ~500 got termined in less than two days.
yeah ive been losing like 10 every day
im down to 404 now
I’m losing them very quickly… a few days ago I had over 250 and now I’m down to just 95. It’s mostly just friend requests that I received years ago that are disappearing, as my newer ones are still here.
It’s probably got something to do with the new 1,000 friend limit update, as that’s somewhat the time I started losing them.
I had this happen too.
Here’s a screenshot from January 13, right after the limit was increased. (these are all bots that added me a few years ago, I never ignored them because I thought it was funny to have hundreds of pending bot requests)
Today I checked Roblox and noticed most of them are gone:
Thanks to your throw on bots, I also starting checking for those. Pretty much all of my requests come from names not quite suspicious as the ones you sent, so I suppose there’s more to it
I made a recording of all 424 requests somewhere around the day of the 28th of January, and repeated this today with my 391 requests leftover.
This means there’s ~30 people gone (think I got 3 new ones since then, of which 1 I did accept)
So… I started doing the boring work comparing each page with each other until I found some anomalies. Occasionally one person appears like 4-12 spots later, which is annoying for comparing, but ultimately doesn’t change the numbers.
Inactive/terminated users or accounts still show up, whether their name’s been deleted too
But then- someone missing on page 15, so I went to check:
It now reads ‘add friend’, as if they’d never sent me a request in the first place, which is strange considering they did in fact sent me a request:
Nothing strange for a bit again… until – you guessed it – the final few pages.
Coincidentally these final pages have lost a few contestants, whereas some others have stayed. Compare for yourself
Current final two pages:
And last 4 (!) pages on the 28th
I am not sure what determines whose request expires and if it’s linked to account activity or such, which wouldn’t make any sense considering one of the people whose request disappeared is online right now:
Other example
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Think it’s safe to say that they do in fact disappear. The numbers match up too (~30 people gone and the number is down ~30 too)
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I did realise something…
Early March of 2022 this was changed:
It didn’t just wipe away 500 people, but simple displayed the number differently (500+ could still be 1241) **
So… what this means is the requests have (always?) been disappearing or expiring 
As my oldest request is from someone whose account is from 2020 - it would be strange if no one had ever sent a request before they did.
Then again, this still doesn’t answer when they ‘expire’ and why some more recent ones go away before another. The oldest request is seemingly outliving more recent ones
Was it merely a coincidence that this number dropped below the ‘500+’ for the first time after many years, very close to the 1,000 friend limit update.
Maybe it is unrelated, but what’s certain is that they disappear at rapid rate…
** edit
Unless this was the point at which it went under 1,000 , but then … that would’ve been 500 requests gone in ~3 years, whereas in the current past 7 days about 100 requests vanished which doesn’t add up. Unless back then I had 15,000 requests which
Seems like something clearly has changed though 
Happening to me too, anyone know why this is happening?
Pretty annoying for this, took me a while to get those 500 friend requests
Big number make me happy
Had 292 before the increased friend limit update.
A little after I wrote that latest message here it slowed down, but as of the last 10-ish days it’s been dropping a lot again.
Does this happen in waves? Went from 350 that week+ ago to 295 now…
Still no clarity 
Deleted users are still there too though, but now see their name obscured
Yea this issue still seems to occur:
Now it randomly says i have “469” friend requests. As this doesn’t seem to be submitted as a bug yet. I will submit one now
Edit: I decided to submit a bug report regarding this issue:
Awesome 
Wonder if we’ll hear back or receive any meaningful insights as for why this is suddenly happening.
I just noticed this as well. I had 500+ for five years, and then they dropped to 470 out of nowhere. I suspected it might have been a new feature that makes friend requests expire after a certain amount of time, but I had around 200 new ones last month, so I was a little weirded out.
Went down.
Hi, quick update.
Thanks to @13_5G’s bug report we’ve got a response from Roblox staff:
Assuming this is correct, you can probably expect a bunch more to disappear.
After a while however, the current accumulated requests should be back to ‘normal’ and from then
| friend requests will expire after 2 years of pending. |
