Recently Updated Tab for UGC

I had a few collabs go up yesterday and noticed that none of them ended up on the recently updated page despite me adjusting their descriptions/names, etc.

I imagine it’s a mistake and not intended because I saw some items appear on the recently updated page and not others and I hope it’s fixed soon!

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Omg this is horrible, I hope Roblox Roblox fixes it :pensive:

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all that needs to happen is that rob gamers dude needs to get kicked out then the recently updated page would be clean

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This update/bug is so nasty for us man, we have to be sitting on our items waiting for them to be approved by moderation then quickly put them on sale straight away.

and everyone who uploaded items in advance is crying rn

they didn’t tell us about it so I’m hoping it is a bug

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That’s debatable, unless you’re sponsoring items like an advertisement on Roblox it’s gonna be hard for players to find your items. Just make a recently created tab.

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I agree with the fact that this change hurts all UGC creators, regardless of their popularity or earnings.

The recently updated sort was a way for players to find new and interesting items that have recently been put up, and restricting the sort to newly created items hurts everyone who stocks up items for the coming months, or aren’t able to put items on sale right before they’re uploaded.

In short, these changes may address the people abusing the recently updated sort, but they also harm many legitimate creators in the process, as their items are much less easy to find now.

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Ah yes let me just pour 10,000 robux into sponsoring my item and get maybe 200 sales from it and end up with 2 robux in profit because roblox already takes 70 PERCENT of our profit from us.

I completely agree with you that people spam updated their items way too frequently but that literally makes up for 1% of all creators and instead of taking action against those rule breakers they ruined a main stream of income and discoverability for rule abiding creators. If you properly educated yourself on the upload process before speaking then you’d understand why this is a horrible change. You are going to continue to see items that you aren’t interested in on your catalogue, that LITERALLY has nothing to do with us.

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I thought I was the only one with this problem… I was loading some items on 11/26 and was waiting to put them up for sale now on 12/01… I put them up for sale and it’s going to be two days and there isn’t a sale if you want… no… I uploaded an item now and my Thumb doesn’t load and the ones that I uploaded aren’t appearing in the catalog… Harming my sales by 100%, not counting the poor sales in November and now this one is coming to us offend. And worst of all, we have no support!

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I have noticed that items that have already been published and have been in the catalog for a few weeks have not suffered and are still selling normally, but items that have been released recently are performing sales poorly.


this accessory had only 2 sales and would sell much more than that, I hope it’s just a bug, but it would be interesting if they created a category recently created

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This strange behaviour isn’t limited to the UGC catalog, it affects searches for items made by Roblox as well.

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Surely there’s a middle ground for this kind of behavior. Maybe the first time a price is set on an offsale item, it goes on recently updated, but not subsequent times

Seems a bit weird to have a tab named “Recently Updated” with undocumented behavior like this in effect.

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It appears this change was intentional, according to TheGamer101. **Although this post addresses an issue with the AvatarEditorService, it could still be related.

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@Kairoh3D @oatins @Rainbo1239 @Xenonic_778 @i_Sininho

So, making the sort show items that have been recently published, not created fixes most of this?

And then, when items are put on sale, there should be a way for users to discover this?

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From what I’ve noticed from other creators, the current reception of the Recently Created tab, formerly Recently Updated, is primarily negative, mostly due to the fact that creators have to put an item on sale ASAP after it passes moderation, or risk having the item disappear into the Recently Created sort in a matter of hours, due to the amount of items being created on a daily basis by all users.

If the sort would show recently published items, which I understand as items recently listed on sale, many creators would feel better about it, due to being in control of when their item appears in the sort, allowing them to relax and not stress about timing their uploads for hours in advance to publish the item quickly, or risk losing many potential views and sales.

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Switching to recently published from created would help a lot! I’ve avoided uploading items in certain cases because I’m worried moderation may take too long (I’ve noticed that at certain times of the day, it goes much faster than others, so it encourages me to upload items at certain times of the day and wait until the next day to upload others).

Recently published would help, assuming it accounts for the first time it goes on sale and only that time (at least from what I have noticed with recently created, people could spam toggle off-sale and on-sale to put their item to the front of the page even when they shouldn’t be able to). Adjusting the sort like this would let me not worry about rushing to put something on sale as soon as possible, and would be ideal if possible!

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Yes! showing items based on when they were published instead of created will fix most of the problem. And also having a feature for users to easily find items that are on sale would be helpful too.

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@Rainbo1239 @Xenonic_778
noted. thx.

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Yes, if it was recently updated it would be a lot better!!

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My most recent item, uploaded two days ago, put onsale last night, was instantly swamped by other items the instant it was put onsale

this led to it having a pitiful amount of sales despite costing only R$15

It’s devastating to see this happen because I spent 750 robux to upload it, and it seems it’ll be a while before I earn that back (especially since I get 30% of the sale)

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Hi ,
Recently created sort should be sorted based on the time of creation of the item. We have retired Recently updated sort based on the product decision.

Thanks

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