This looks extremely sketchy to someone who isn’t familiar with the mobile share link and can cause issues between people. The share link is also unnecessarily long, I don’t see why roblox.com couldn’t have been used in its place.
I really would like to see this change happen! Most people are unaware that Roblox owns blox.com which leads to confusion when sharing anything from mobile.
I agree, this makes no sense. For years Roblox has tried to tell everyone that only roblox.com is legitimate. Even with these efforts and even while roblox.comwas the only legitimate Roblox domain, a significant number of users have continued to fall victim to scams on other domains impersonating Roblox.
Introducing “creative” endpoints like blox.com (and worse ro.blox.com) makes scam websites attempting to impersonate official Roblox domains look more legitimate.
The introduction of this endpoint occurs to me as a massive judgement error by whoever made that decision, as it undermines (or rather, completely reverses) the official position that roblox.com is the only legitimate Roblox domain.
Could this be put into consideration? I don’t see why this share domain is used as it doesn’t shorten URLs or have any other reason to exist. As stated in my original post the link does more harm than good as it does not look legitimate.
I was sent a link like this and immediately assumed it was a scam link until I remembered this thread existed, people like me might try to discourage others from clicking the link, leading people to believe that they’re recieving scam messages from friends, which, overall shouldn’t happen.
For anyone who doesn’t know it is owned by Roblox, blox.com / ro.blox.com looks like a fake website or a scam. Roblox should really just make blox.com redirect to roblox.com and use the normal Roblox website for sharing.
Recently Roblox made a security announcement and stated this:
If Roblox is actively stating that roblox.com is the only official link to the site, why have they used a completely different domain for sharing games on mobile?
Mobile is the most popular platform that Roblox is played on; it feels silly to push this message out when so many users are on mobile and only have easy access to this share link.
I brought it up under the announcement as well (I just wanted to give this a bump), but I made this topic almost 2 years ago and I still don’t understand why there has been no public acknowledgment from Roblox that this is even an official domain.
100% agree, the first time I saw the ro.blox.com domain I thought it was a scam. So I can say first hand that it does look extremely sketchy. Plus it doesn’t even make sense that it exists, it’s not like with YouTube where it shortens the link. Think it should be changed to how YouTube treats sharing links. It gives a shortened version of the link.
For example this is the full link to the Roblox Anthem Video:
But when you go and share the video (using the “Share” button), it gives a slightly shorter version of the link. Removing the “.com” and “watch?=” parts.
This cannot happen, this is why youtube has youtu.be, the shortened link tells the website that what you wish to visit is a video and not a channel, etc.
https://roblox.com/[GameID] could clash with a legitimate pages if Roblox adds a full number-based page name and it also heavily damaging to UX since removing the GameID doesn’t bring you to the Discover page but rather the Home page.
What was the reason behind setting it as a ro.blox.com link anyways? It does not shorten the link and looks extremely suspicious. I assume analytics? I hope this is considered.
To be honest, the *.blox.com domain is nearly not known by the majority of the players (most likely), I didn’t even knew about it until around 2020/2021
