PlayerList Updates

[Rototally]

Hello, we have a few more updates to the PlayerList.

1. If you have edit access to a game, you will now have the developer icon appear next to your name in the PlayerList Leaderboards. This is a nice update for developers with group games. Thanks to TheGamer101 for this change!

2. We no longer show follow status. We did this to reduce the network calls that are made as we are seeing record highs in the number of concurrent players on the platform. We are not sure when/if we will re-enable this functionality.

We are still looking at additional improvements we can make going forward, including mobile support.

[Rototally]

We are looking at this - agree this would be a good addition.

[Rototally]

Mobile is a design challenge due to The limited screen size, especially in portrait mode. We are working on a design for this. Agree we need to bring this feature to mobile phones.

[mekboy21 (mek)]

What icon is it? I don’t think it should be the hammer one.

EDIT: Maybe do a umm, idk

[Fabwabs]

@Rototally

Hello, we have a few more updates to the PlayerList.

1. If you have edit access to a game, you will now have the developer icon appear next to your name in the PlayerList Leaderboards.

The hammer icon for all of the creators of a game is a really great addition for me, because I do a lot of collaborations with my friends

[Hacreey]

Love the new hammer icon addition, but it’s causing me some issues…

My alt has game editing access for the sole purpose of using the dev console. I play on it when I just want to play my game normally, without being noticed by others. Now that the hammer appears for ALL developers, I have to sacrifice the dev console in order to just play normally again.

I’d suggest adding who gets the hammer based on a group role or individual users.

[MalosVindictus (God)]

Get another alt, I don’t think they’d change the way it works just because you want to not be noticed. lol.
All members in team create are developers. So not having the hammer symbol wouldn’t be right.

[thomkok13]

Makes sense. Maybe it should be a setting to turn it on or off.

[metatablecatmaid (metatablecat)]

GUYS! I found a setting to turn it off, but it requires some pretty advanced FFlag magic

Am I allowed to link the tweet where I explained how to do it?

[Automationeer (Eleanor)]

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[Bueevo]

I think you should make the hammer icon yellow so it can sort of pop like the old menu’s developer icon did.

[lexandstuff]

+1 to this. I’d like to be able to view the Server Logs without getting noticed in game. A role that can view the logs but doesn’t have the Creator icon would be great. A way to turn off the Creator icon completely would be even better.

[PezzoGuy (Pezzo)]

I think even mobile users wouldn’t mind giving up a single leaderboard row if it means they can consistently see their own stats at the top. Roblox design decisions seem to try to find a balance between being global but also a powerful platform.

[RiloTheFox (Rilo)]

The playerlist should automatically scroll to your name every time someone joins/leave the game, joins a team, etc.

[ittrgrey (Ittr)]

I think that would become too distracting in popular games which use the standard CoreGUIs - reinstating some kind of row at the top for displaying a user’s own statistics would be a far more efficient method of making them clearer.

[TechnicalHost (ech)]

Yeah no, I’m not liking this leaderboard. Sure, it’s an attempt to modernize it, but factors like the leaderboard’s size and the space between the names are ridiculous and make the leaderboard a downgrade almost.

[Ryanthemudkip (Mudkip)]

I have an idea, maybe add the ability to give certain users custom or predefined player list tags for things such as being staff or having a position in a cafe

[mothmage (moth)]

Recently the size of usernames was changed to scale to the length of a username instead of being truncated. My personal belief is that I think that it should do this generally, but if it the text’s size small (like nerdybutdeadly56598) it should start truncating it.

I think that usernames should start truncating if they get any smaller than the_realeclipse1717.

[MinebloxianYTReal (SpaceBlox)]

But it makes the text harder to read

[mothmage (moth)]

I agree, and that’s why I said it should truncate it after a certain size to keep the size bigger, I don’t think it’s too small in most cases which is why I welcome this change.