Private Experiences Appear in Search Results on Roblox Universal App

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#1

Issue Description

When searching for an experience in the Roblox Universal App, some private experiences appear in the search results. However, when attempting to access them, they are set as private and cannot be played. These private experiences should not be displayed in search results since they are not accessible to players.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Open the Roblox Universal App.
  2. Use the search bar to look for an experience with a known developer version (e.g., “FIFA World”).
  3. Notice that the main public version of the experience appears in the search results, which is expected.
  4. Scroll through the results and observe that a developer/private version of the same experience also appears.
  5. Click on the developer/private version and see that it is marked as private and cannot be played.

Expected Behavior

Private experiences should not appear in the search results since they are not accessible, only public. Playable experiences should be displayed to avoid confusion.

Visual Aids:

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#2

Hi Juan, thanks for reporting this. It’s currently an expected behavior as we allow recently popular/engaged private results to surface in search. An example for why we do this: When Blox Fruits takes itself private it would be confusing to users if they can’t find it.

Are you or other devs you know looking for ways to completely hide their experiences in Search?

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#3

Hey @ilovemambo234. Thanks for the reply

I don’t think I have understood this design because the experiences/games that I have provided as an example in visual aids are not playable or available for anyone to play, only the creator and/or selected players

Taking your example, Blox Fruits is a public and playable version. There is another version for development purposes which is private. Hence, it should only appear “Blox Fruits”, not “Blox Fruits [DEV]”, right?

#4

Having this option would actually be very useful!

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