Now that I had to chance to test this out with some friends, it does look promising. But, as I would agree with previous commenters here, it should NOT be restricted to just the “Roblox Connect” experience. Since the source is copy-able, I’m going to dive in and see if this can be used with any other experience. To that, being about to invite “friends” into an experience via “call style” can work, but might need a little tweaking when using it on mobile since the notifications can come at anytime without warning. At least when we were testing it on PC, you only get the “call” notification when the Roblox Client program is running and it’s easy to take a “call” or ignore it without much distraction.
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What options does a user have to disable or not continue with a call?
Roblox Connect enables users to connect and communicate with their friends. In the meanwhile, if a user does not want to receive a call, you can unfriend or block a contact directly from the phone book or from your friend’s list on Roblox.
In addition, on Android, you can go to your notification settings for Roblox and you have the option to turn off call notifications.
This is very frustrating that you can’t disable the calling feature without unfriending or blocking someone. I should not have to do such things in order to disable a feature like this. I do not have Roblox push notifications enabled therefore I should not be getting notified outside of the Roblox app to join a call. There needs to be a setting to disable this. This is invasive to the users privacy as some people do not want to be called outside of Roblox. It would be great if you could fix this as soon as possible as most people do not want to be called on the platform.
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I think this feature is a gamble for Roblox, but not in a good or bad way. Either we see some amazing things come out of calling over the next 5 years or it’ll be left in the dust.
While I agree that the resources spent on creating this feature should have been better spent elsewhere, sometimes taking a gamble like this is what can break or make innovation. I’m sure a lot of things we take for granted today were seen as ridiculous when first introduced.
When the first cars were manufactured, people laughed and said horses were never going away. Even the internet was claimed to be insignificant at some point. We’ll never know if something works or not if we don’t try.
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Hi, I don’t have android and I’m not interested in unfriending or blocking my friends.
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It is honestly a waste of time for such updates, games would probaly benefit much more from other updates such as previously mentioned lightning…
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tbh its looking awful like cmon bro just go to discord to call your friends instead of joining a game that looks like that voodoo was working on a vrchat ripoff
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did you implement OnCallInviteInvoked? you’ll need this callback to handle placed calls, but for some reason roblox didn’t describe how to use it in the phonebook’s documentation lol, here’s some sample code to help. (the callback only runs on the server i’m pretty sure)
local SocialService = game:GetService("SocialService")
local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
SocialService.OnCallInviteInvoked = function(tag, participants)
local callPlaceId = game.PlaceId -- if you have a separate place for calling, replace this with your place ID
local success, reserved = pcall(function()
return TeleportService:ReserveServer(callPlaceId)
end)
if success then
print("Successfully obtained access code")
return {
ReservedServerAccessCode = reserved,
PlaceId = callPlaceId
}
else
warn("Something went wrong. The call cannot be placed")
print(reserved)
end
end
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No. Roblox this is not what we wanted at all.
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To be honest, I see no point in this. There are apps built for this like Discord.
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“and the most pointless update of the year award goes to…”
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When I use Roblox Connect experience in roblox studio, nothing works but I haven’t changed anything. Could anyone help me please ?
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Yeah its all good until you let a “damn” slip and get your account hit with a terminations lol.
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Grabs virtual newspaper No! Bad Roblox! Bad! Stop listening to lobbyists and investors!
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I think they should take advantage of this to improve Roblox’s default recording
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That’s why this isn’t open to the public, only for Roblox devs
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No, these are the only requirements.
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Because you haven’t added the Forest & Island place to the Start place.
even if you do like I did, it will not work because it’s not released yet and only works for the original game.
(correction: I tested it on one of my old places and it worked, so the requirements include your game being old enough to use it)
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The tech is really cool; it’s a very nice showcase, but who is actually going out of their way to call people on this? This is clearly not targeted towards <13 users, so who outside of that range actually wants to use this feature and have to be very selective on their words or make sure they’re not being too loud so they’re not auto-moderated? Also, why does this feature bypass DND 
?
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My desktop version is 0.602.352.6020380
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Dawg this is the most intrusive roblox update i have ever received
my roblox friends are spamming my phone and calling me. would love to know if i can disable this
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