Sounds like you just don’t have a good spam filter… (and this can be fixed by adding a spam folder to messages)
I’m so tired of this company claiming to have data but REFUSING to actually share it. I know hundreds of devs that use messages as a way to interact with their community.
Let me just stop you right here. How about you finish something before discontenting the thing that it replaces?
Ah yes so we should just add EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. who wants to message us… If you think this is the alternative than you better increase the friend limit.
THATS WHAT MESSAGES ARE FOR!!!
The fact this and
that is the only two good things in this post is just sad
I don’t plan on doing or using an external chat group, such as Discord, so users can send me bug reports and the such, and even if the Message usage is low, people still report me suggestions and bugs within my experiences, and Groups are still more prone to spamming, too (in my opinion)
Inbox is pretty useless to me as i get so much spam ( and right to eraser even though none of my games store player data), they are drowning out actual people messaging me. I recently found that i got a question from a player 3 months after they sent it, because i just looked over it, it was surrounded by spam and scam messages.
Just the scammer messages alone is a good reason to remove inbox messages, i do think a replacement system should be added first however, for the people that need it.
To add onto this, most of my messages i get or send, look like this anyway…
“##### is ######## the ###### and a ####### you know, but ##### ok thanks for reading”
For this reason i stopped attempting to communicate on roblox, the sher MASSIVE amount of unnecessary filtering of perfectly acceptable and appropriate communication, and ridiculous word bans ( “lime” is a banned word… really???), makes it near impossible to communicate clearly and pain free with people on roblox. We now use other platforms to talk to my team and some players for feedback.
User to User chat is NOT and never has been a replacement for Messages. Honestly, I’m seeing a pattern of stuff getting removed/sunsetted that has no solid replacement or its replacement is of lesser value to the community.
At the very least, as others have mentioned, DO NOT sun set Inbox messaging until a valid replacement is out.
I understand the concern for safety, but this sunset seems like a lazy work around, there really doesn’t even seem to be a spam filter in place at all which email services have and seem to work very well, something that in theory should be able to be easily added, unless of course the ability to add new futures wasn’t thought of when designing messages.
Personal opinion, would love to be proved wrong here, I don’t think there is going to be a better replacement for Inbox Messaging.
They are working on a replacement already, that’s also why they are sunsetting it, why they would fix something nobody actually cares about that will be replaced anyway.
Citing two points that roblox said:
There you have it, what’s a better source of information than Roblox itself, nobody uses it.
And you seem to have a strong opinion about it, but checking your profile I see you don’t have any game, so how it’s useful for you?
It’s incredibly common here for people to be outraged when Roblox makes a negative update, it’s not surprising there are lots of people saying it’s a bad update, but I believe most don’t actually know how awful PMs is.
why remove it if the replacement isnt a thing yet??? that makes no sense.
because they did nothing to prevent spam, or make it more usable.
people rarely accept random friend requests sent to them. you cant chat/message anyone that you arent friends with. doesnt this make messaging people even worse? i get it was bad, but at least there was a way. it doesnt make any sense to remove this without the replacement already being ready.
Yeah, people would be significantly happier, but maybe they just don’t want this feature anymore, regardless of whether there is a replacement or not, the “Low Usage, Engagement, and Quality” reason is already strong enough to just remove it, as it has happened before many times. The replacement is not the only reason.
They are doing something to prevent spam, they are removing it.
That’s still a very niche usage, I believe most people make friends in-game, where you can send a friend request, as is the only way to actually meet people, what people are you trying to message?
Also read the fourth point Roblox said, called “Streamlining Messaging Entry Points”
I’ve been on Roblox since 2014 (my first account is sebaspg36), the Roblox site has changed drastically since then, there have been lots and lots of features that have been removed, Roblox is not months early, is YEARS late to remove this feature, as it is that old.
I remember there used to be a messages tab in games, just like there was for catalog items until it was recently removed, and there was still something left of feeds until recently, Roblox takes too much time to remove completely deprecated features, that again, nobody use anymore.
In my group with 43k members, I disabled posting on the group wall, because it served for nothing as I have a discord server, I also don’t use group shouts because nobody checks them, these things are too old and deprecated and I hope Roblox gets an excuse soon to remove them also.
Roblox looks like a frankenstein of old and modern features right now.
I believe it doesn’t matter if somebody uses it if it’s only 1% of people, Roblox gave them 20 days since this announcement to migrate to something else.
If User-To-User messages get removed, then I don’t see this as a problem, the messages page will be a perfect spot for Roblox to send messages to users
why should i have to go off-site to message someone about roblox? why cant my messages about roblox stay on roblox? i get that its outdated but it still has a purpose, and they shouldnt remove it until their replacement is finished.
i’ll miss this feature