I had no idea Roblox was struggling to implement search operators. I had to do some digging to understand why I couldn’t wrap my head around this being an announcement: This type of feature has existed in search engines like AltaVista since 1998.
There are currently some amazing technologies on display on this platform which truly do make the most of today’s hardware and we all benefit from the addition of new features, but publicly testing a convention that’s at least 27 years old is something that blindsided me for a company that expects its user base to rely on its cloud services.
I was surprised to see the “Search (use “quotes” for exact match)” signaling that I’m able to try the feature early, but I then logged into my alt that I do not really use at all to see if it was there and saw it as well. This feature wasn’t already rolled out for all users in just two days was it?
For those interested in ONLY music and sound effects searching, we created an audio search engine called the Audio Discovery Tool. We are still actively building it, and we’d love your feedback.
Any reason that free models can’t be organised for global recency?
When I joined Rōblox in 2008L, we had a completely new set of free models to view every time we checked. When I searched for “elevators”, I could easily know what the latest tech was. Recency sort was all we had.
As recently as the early 2020s, Rōblox gave us multiple ways to sort for models. They supported ordering by recency, popular, or whatever Rōblox felt was good at the time. We had the choice.
I’m addressing this complaint to the people who are best equipped to provide rationale. Id est: Rōblox employees.
We are thrilled to announce that this feature is now live for all Creator Store Users. We greatly appreciate your feedback and support throughout this test, and hope this helps you more easily find items on the Creator Store.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
