Before people pile on any more feedback here: The internal discussion on this has been reopened.
Awesome! I understand Roblox wants to drive more people into the app, but violating windows norms is not a great way to do that in my opinion.
Thereās tons of other creative options. For example, Roblox could add tabs like chrome to the top of Robloxās app, without taking up much more space. Or a variety of other UI designs.
Iād also be fine with this update if there was a big ādo not show againā checkbox.
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Excuse me giga,but all you just did was hijack the X button for more players and kids to stay on your platform. This is horrible, but you just hijack the ALT + F4 key too?!?!
This is annoying and NEEDS TO BE CHANGED, or else i will quit roblox.
The feature left people complaning and you want kids and teens (and adultsā¦) to force you to get on your desktop app. What is this behavior, roblox?! Just let us out of this windows UX nonsense! We need a feature to opt out of this. Roblox is now violating windows norms, and i dont like it, so i dont support people who break windows norms. We understand you want more people into the app, but it cant be done like this.
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I mean, the weirder thing is itās actually happening mostly for people who already have the app. But instead of asking about unsaved work, theyāre repetitively advertising your ability to go to other games without closing the app, which is a good feature but they display the prompt even if youāve āexplored more Robloxā through the app for the past three weeks (or months)!
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Iām glad to hear that. Iāll chime in that I expect ALT+F4 to close any program I press it on, as immediately as is reasonable, every time.
I get that the āXā button may be a design choice - someone may press the X during a game without realizing it will close the entire Roblox app. Especially with the transition from website navigation to app navigation, itās a concern that I understand.
The optimal solution for me would be a setting in the client that lets me toggle the behavior for the āXā button, maybe with a link from the confirmation window to that setting for users that want to change it. Thirty seconds for a mockup to show what I mean:
(the hyperlink leads to a Settings page, where confirm-on-close is on by default)
But, again, ALT+F4 should ignore this setting. It should never ask if the user is sure. They pressed the ākill programā command - theyāre sure. I sometimes exit other applications by accident, but they donāt always ask me to confirm. Itās not a common enough problem to justify the extra step involved in closing the program.
Iām probably not going to quit Roblox if this isnāt changed, but it runs counter to the way I expect Windows applications to behave.
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Another thing that does not make sense: When the disconnected screen appears for any reason, if you click the close button instead of the āleaveā button, the āexplore moreā prompt still appears but itās blurred and not readable because itās behind the disconnected window. You should not have to click close on any Windows application only for something else to pop up that you canāt even read or click on; if you did, Iām pretty sure you would normally think you got a virus.
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This likely deserves itās own bug report and is likely related to the fact that the Core GUI blur object blurs everything except for the disconnected prompt.
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I would prefer to be disconnected and not have blur in the way, much like the old, red design. Though I also like the buttons.
This would specifically be for custom messages/dialog boxes when the user is disconnected, instead of Robloxās. Iām not sure why this isnāt implemented already, but it would be a great feature.
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I actually came across some bug in a game (The Labyrinth, to be specific) where if you view someoneās avatar off the player list, the entire app becomes unresponsive and freezes up. Before the update with the close confirmation, if I tried to replicate the bug, it still happened but I was able to close Roblox with Task Manager.
Closing the tab is impossible with the prompt coming up. For some reason I was unable to Alt + F4 out or use Task Manager to force close it. It acts like an admin password prompt; you canāt do anything until you enter it/interact with the password box itself, and of course I canāt when said app/in this case, Roblox, is frozen.
I canāt describe it in terms you probably wish I could but itās just something thatās happened 100% of the time for me. My apologies
I really wish to know why this prompt is intended behaviorā¦
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That button actually used to be there. There was a checkbox that said āDonāt see this againā and it was removed in the second beta.
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Iāve noticed this too, itās really annoying.
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I just tried one of the event pages if I clicked home.
Itās giving some strange error saying a program isnāt installed.
The worst part about this is that it somehow shows this popup even if you try to close it with the task manager:
(cartoony sounds to really set the mood of how everybody sees this)
If this is intentional, then Roblox does have some very weird intentions
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I believe this is intended. Happens to me when I click the X on Windows 10
At least give me the option to never see that menu again.
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Itās a bit bothersome that it does not line up to the same UX expectations as pretty much every other software when hitting ALT + F4
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Really bad UX design. I donāt press Alt+F4 to be prompted with anything, I do it when Iām trying to close the window. If this is meant to help people who are new to PC not close the client by mistake, fair enough, but like @MrChickenRocket said, we should at least be able to click a āNever Show This Againā option. Nobody appreciates this change.
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Iām unbothered by being promoted when pressing the X button but Alt + F4 should always immediately kill the program, not have an annoying popup marketing/growth begged for in spite of UX.
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Itās very hard to accidentally press ALT + F4, and ALT + F4 pranking is something that you will only fall for once.
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But itās easy to accidentally click the X button (when opening the three dots menu)