As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to spend time with a small hand of people when trying to take a break from working and explore other experiences on Roblox.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because I have a few people added in my friends list but I don’t want them to always join me.
With Roblox’s upcoming updates announced at RDC 2023, regarding calls, and other great communication between users improvements, I thought this might be the right moment to post this.
(RDC 2023 Footage)
In modern Roblox’s Standards, many developers might not find this feature very useful at as it is, but take a moment and read this post to see a few features I personally think would improve the Roblox experience, and why I think it’s needed.
Short story, I have a small group of people I usually enjoy spending my time with, and a larger group of people which I work with, but some times, those people part that I’ve got added on Roblox because of work/business sometimes join me on Roblox without any notice, and I don’t always enjoy that.
Back in early 2010s, we used to have a feature called “Best Friends” which was renamed to friends, when followers feature just released.
I would like to make a request for this best friends feature to come back, and I will explain in this post why.
At the moment we only have “Friends, Followers & Following”
- Following users are most likely people we look up to or we follow them because they’re doing some cool things we like
- Followers are users that usually look up to us, or liked one of our contents we published on Roblox
- Friends are people we sometimes spend time with/or people we have connections to.
So, now, we have no way of separating these the friends we want to join us in games and the friends we don’t want to join us in games.
For example, I want my best friends to always be able to join me, see what I play, Etc, without having to always turn on my joins for them, because I’m always in mood to spend time with them. However, I don’t always want my other friends to be able to follow me in games/see what I play, and there’s really nothing that could separate both.
Some may say “Turn on your joins when you want friends to join and turn them off when you don’t”, or “Unfriend people you don’t want to play with”
First of all, I don’t mind having those people added, and sometimes I enjoy playing games with them, but other times I just want to play with my small group of friends I play with everyday, without having to always go in the settings menu to turn my joins off. Having an option to simply add some people as best friends would make things easier.
I understand there might be limitations to the Roblox website regarding friends lists/user relationships (eg followings, followers, blocked people, muted people, friends etc.), so maybe we could have a limit of 5-20 best friends max?
And I also understand, having to implement a new feature such as this might take a while because of how much the Roblox website on only a few user relationship types.
The best friends list could also be hidden from public in order to save website resources.
Developers could use this feature to award in-experience bonuses such as “multiplier boosts” for playing with best friends.
Another benefit to this, would be that we could also use this best friends list to allow our friends to use models, decals, audios, videos and other assets without having them to add us in their game’s team create, or we could even have them receive admin commands in our games without having to add their usernames/userids to the games.
We could as well, use this best friend feature, to only allow our best friends to listen/speak with us In-experiences via microphones 
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of other ideas from the Roblox community as of why they would want this feature to be brought back, and Hopefully if enough people give very good reasons for this feature, we might receive it back!
If you want this feature to return, please add a reply with reasons why you think this would be a good feature, if you don’t think it would be good, add a reply with reasons why so Roblox engineers and staff can take this into consideration and come up with a new (or returning) great feature to the website!
Here’s a few examples or mockups of what the best friends option would appear in a few places
Privacy/Settings:
I definitely believe an overhaul of the privacy settings is needed, and having more features added like invisible mode, DnD mode, streaming mode, enabling/disabling verification Icon without losing permanent access to it, and a lot more, but I will keep this post for friends-list only
Profile page:
(remove from best friends)
(add to best friends)
(alternate picture for adding/removing best friends
For the leaderbaoard icon we could either have the normal friends icon, or something more special similar to this:
(friend with a heart)
(friend with a star)
In this post I explained a lot more benefits this feature would bring to the Roblox Platform than I would personally be needing, but there’s a lot of developers out there that might need those features, so I decided suggesting what Best friends could be used for.
i liked to see all the profile statuses of people it was like a way to keep in touch with people and see what was happening