Post System Inside Roblox?

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#1

Hello! I had this great idea in my head to make a game like the Roblox Dev Forum but in a Roblox game. The only thing is I couldn’t brainstorm any ideas on how to create a post system. Can anyone help me with this idea?

#2

Well, it depends how you want to handle it.
Each Server is a different forum or the whole game is one whole forum.

#3

The whole game will be one whole forum.

#4

You would have to use Messaging Service, along with Filtering the strings.

#5

May you give an example or tutorial?

#6

Biggest thing I think preventing this from being a thing is that text filtering currently can’t be used with offline users. You’re not allowed to store and display pre-filtered strings since the filters change over time.

Otherwise, it’d probably be a combination of an OrderedDataStore with each key being some topic identifier and value being the last updated time, then a GlobalDataStore with topic info, then another OrderedDataStore for each post in one thread, then another GlobalDataStore with info about each post.

*This is a system I came up with off the top of my head and is most likely inefficient.

#7

Here’s an example of using Messaging Service

local MessagingService = game:GetService("MessagingService")
local Values = {
  Num = 5,
  String = "Boom",
  Bool = true
}

local PublishSuccess, PublishResult = pcall(function()
    MessagingService:PublishAsync("StockMartket", Values)
end)

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local Connection = MessagingService:SubscribeAsync("StockMarket", function(Value)
        print(Value.Num, Value.String, Value.Boom)
    end)

    Player.AncestryChanged:connect(function()
        -- Unsub from topic.
        Connection:Disconnect()
    end)
end)

You’d call

PublishAsync(string, Variant)

When they post something…
Subscribe Async would be used to Update the users screen with the new topic.

Of course like @ihaveamac said

You’d want to actually store it all in DataStores, and you’d have to filter the string every time it’ll get displayed to a user.

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