Hello,
I have the following problem, which has not yet been reported and which is ruining my idea.exe Roblox group. The problem concerns the incorrect sorting of clothes in the catalog after entering the selected words in the search box.
Characteristics of this problem:
- very often popular clothes with many likes and sales are often under unpopular clothes, sometimes freshly created and stolen or unrelated to the search topic
- this is a global problem as this issue occurs on all tested browsers, on both computers and mobile devices, on all tested computers and various Roblox accounts in several countries
- the sorting of clothes sometimes suddenly changes completely and sometimes it’s completely different on other accounts
Repro:
- open the Roblox catalog and select Classic Clothing, for example Pants
- enter in the search box the word you are interested in, for example “axolotl”
- notice that popular clothes with a lot of likes and sales are often below unpopular clothes, sometimes freshly created
- compare the sorting of clothes on several other accounts and at different time intervals
The problem appeared in early November, I think it started around this point where pressing clothes configuration started to take users to the create.roblox.com/creations page. From that point on, the sales in my Roblox store (idea.exe Roblox group) started to drop drastically, and suddenly, in just a few days, they fell to the level of sales from a year ago, few people suddenly started joining the group. After a deeper analysis, it turned out that the reason for all this was probably changes in the algorithms that sort clothes in the catalog because my clothes, which for many months occupied the first places in the catalog, suddenly fell many rows below, while the higher rows were occupied by clothes not popular, with low number of likes, also freshly uploaded to the catalog, stolen from me and other groups, and also clothes completely unrelated to the words entered into the search box. This has started to kill the group that recently received a verified badge due to its huge popularity and dynamic growth.
Unfortunately, the problem causes the destruction of popular groups and supports asset thieves whose clothes suddenly took high places in the catalog. More and more unpopular and freshly created clothes are displacing popular clothes, pushing them to the lower rows in the catalog, gradually destroying popular developers.
I will present this problem in the screenshots below.
1) Sorting clothes November 18, 2022 in Sheloba account:
2) Sorting clothes November 19, 2022 in Sheloba and Szeloba accounts (the clothes are sorted completely differently than the day before):
3) Sorting clothes November 19, 2022 in Exoeel account (it is completely different than in Sheloba and Szeloba accounts):
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Sorting clothes November 19, 2022 in SerrasaImus account (similar to sorting clothes on November 18, 2022):
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Improper sorting of clothes supports asset thieves:
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searching by “kuromi” word
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searching by “black school uniform” phrase