Please allow asset/plugin creators to broadcast messages to customers when an asset is updated

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#1

It is currently impossible to reach out to all asset customers on-platform to inform them about critical updates, and bug-fixes for assets that they have purchased. There is no indication in Roblox Studio that assets have received an update, unless the user is already navigating the ‘Manage Plugins’ tab.

I needed something like this today because a recent change to EditableMesh completely broke features in my plugin UGC Makers Toolbox. If a customer does not see my tweet about the bug fix, and does not have ‘auto-update’ toggled then they may be stuck with broken features.

If Roblox addressed this issue creators would be able to contact all paying customers of a product that I am selling on the Creator Store and let them know about critical fixes to issues that are needed for the product they bought to continue working as intended.

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#2

this isn’t a solution to the problem, just a patch, but in the meanwhile you could create a github repo with a file containing the version number. then add a check each time the plugin is loaded to see if the version in the raw github URL is equal to the code’s version. if it isn’t, just tell the user that it has to be updated.

this would need an extra permission, but many plugins request web GitHub access already so as a user i wouldn’t see a problem during installation.

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