Since the Roblox Developer Forum website has been going through a lot of changes over the past years regarding how users can join and level up, with the capabilities of seeking help in Help and Feedback (for instance), it has come to a point where the system stops and gets reimagined. “Leader” and “Editor” trust levels are unobtainable (when it comes being anyone) while “Regular” and “Member” controversies were all resolved by the creation of forum groups @AllowBugReports and @AllowFeatureRequests, providing the change to make bug reports and feature requests. Leaving the trust level and “Visitor” active. In the past, most of these trust levels mentioned had requirements that you needed to follow if you wanted to communicate with others, but with internal changes between the Developer Relations team, this came to an end proven by the latest status of the classic post that every veteran in this forum has seen and followed: How to level up on the Roblox Developer Forum - #11
As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to see that these trust levels are still being viewed as stages that you need to follow, because although we know that, they don’t have any usage, indirectly, new forum users are disorientated, leading to a persistence perspective that they must read numerous topics in an X time, while it has been recently stated by a Roblox employee that this would be a “more gaming of the requirements”.
Thus, it has come to my belief that the visibility of the trust levels should be hidden since they are useless. According to some research that I made, this suggestion is possible by making some modifications in the front-end background using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets):
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my experience using the forum because it would make the forum less confusing for new users and improve overall clarity. Hiding outdated trust levels would help users focus on contributing and engaging with the forum without being distracted by irrelevant and outdated progression systems.
While I understand that you enjoy having this tag displayed in your profile, I do believe, from my perspective, it has reached a point where it is useless, and we shouldn’t treat it as a flex (if there are people who are thinking about this trust level).
From the words of a feature request for Developer Forum, the website is not a social media and shouldn’t be viewed this way… It is a place to help, learn, and most importantly, create networks with many creators globally, not to compete with whoever has the most Discourse badges, most likes, etc.
I have returned to this topic to state that all of the trust levels were hidden after the Discourse new version was implemented on the Developer Forum website:
You can no longer see trust levels such as “Visitor”, “Member”, “Regular”, “Editor,” and “Leader” from any forum user. According to new posts, people are saying that this is a bug or was intentionally removed for outrageous reasons, but debunking the case, it was removed because it didn’t have any purpose. A Roblox employee stated that it is irrelevant and obsolete, and since then, this perspective hasn’t changed.
That all being said and done, I will mark my reply as a “Solution” so it can be closed. Thanks!
Quick question about this: you said that everyone who isn’t a staff has trust level 1. However, I see that Roblox employees got affected with this, from “Regular” to “Member”, and they don’t have higher trust levels… Is this the correct behavior? If it helps, I can provide some examples through PMs.
Another question here: This won’t affect them, such as from making announcements about new features through the Updates and Roblox Staff categories, right? As someone who isn’t aware of the whole functionality of the trust levels system of Discourse, I think that it would create a barrier. Thus, asking if it will affect them for clarification…
We should allow users to view the trust level because I have the regular role from my regular contribution to the forum, and it serves as a badge of honor that I worked to earn
Feel free to send me a private message to clarify more on your case, but we haven’t granted “Regular” for “regular forum contributions” for at least 5 years. My hunch is that either someone accidentally granted it to you or you got it as a perk for being part of some DevRel program. I see you got the trust level 2 in Dec 2023 until it was removed today.
We will not be reinstating the trust level, everyone is trust level 1 now.
Even if the “Regular” rank is now considered cosmetic, its symbolic value within the community is anything but trivial. It has long served as a subtle yet meaningful way to recognize those who consistently go above and beyond, those who give their time, their knowledge, and their energy to support fellow developers, often without expecting anything in return.
I don’t believe I received the Regular label by chance. It was granted because a moderator, recognized a contribution (my post Roblox should teach LuaU; not developers) that stood out. That recognition mattered. It wasn’t just a badge. It was a quiet thank you, a signal that my efforts were seen, valued, and appreciated. And ever since I have created research backed posts and plugins for free to further the community more. That is exactly what the role should stand for.
Let’s be honest: some of us treat this forum not just as a place to ask questions, but as a space to build a stronger developer community. We answer questions others skip, share resources we’ve built, and clarify documentation when it’s vague. This isn’t a transaction. It’s service. It’s community-building. And in that context, removing the Regular rank doesn’t just streamline the interface, it erases acknowledgment. It tells contributors that their service is invisible. That’s not simplification. That’s demoralization.
If we want to encourage meaningful participation, we must also be willing to recognize it. The Regular title may not grant permissions, but it granted something more powerful: a sense of earned place. Taking that away sends the wrong message to those who earned it, and the community feels it.
I agree that it’s important to recognize community contributions. There’s already ways someone can tell you’re a contributor to the forum by looking at your forum statistics and forum badges. None of that is going away, and as we make product improvements to the forum in the future we’ll keep in mind that we should do our best to highlight positive contributions.
I don’t think a tiny label difference on the user profile is the way to pay respect to contributors, and ~95% of the time this label was not granted based on forum contributions. Most of the people that had “Regular” were not top contributors, and most of the people that are top forum contributors did not have the “Regular” trust level, so this didn’t really make sense to sustain like this.
Hope that makes sense and thanks for bringing up your concern.
Hey there, I’ve just found out about this post!
I’ve been ranked to “regular” about 2 years ago, and ever since I’ve used this to post “Feature Requests” & “Bug reports”.
Will this “removal” of rank for everybody cause any troubles related to that?
Will I still be able to post bug reports and feature requests?
I don’t really know whenever this is a good change or no, because I’m a little worried about the permissions related to those posts.
I can currently still publish bug report & feature request posts and I would like to make sure I will still be able to do this for the future.
I think, if the bug reports & feature requests won’t be removed from anybody that was previously a regular, this update should not be worrying at all. If otherwise, I would like to understand why this is happening.
If recognition is to mean anything, it must go beyond numbers.
The reality is that statistics alone don’t tell the whole story. A user can accumulate dozens of quick, surface-level posts, check every engagement box, and rise through the ranks, while someone else, who spends hours crafting a single in-depth guide, receives no formal acknowledgment at all. Contribution, in its truest form, is not measured by volume, it’s measured by impact. And impact is something only thoughtful, human judgment can really see.
That’s why the removal of the Regular label matters.
It wasn’t about permissions. It was about having a quiet, visual signal that said: this person adds value here. Without it, the default assumption becomes “just another member,” even when that’s far from the truth. People don’t click through profiles to check stats. They don’t comb through analytics. They notice the signal—or they don’t notice at all.
And that’s the core of the problem: without some kind of visible acknowledgment, exceptional contribution becomes invisible.
So if “Regular” no longer fits the system, then we need something better. Something intentional. Something like a Top Contributor role, not awarded automatically, not granted through a spreadsheet, but recognized by moderators or staff who can see what statistics overlook.
Posts that shape discussion. Ideas that stick. Developers who give more than they take.
A system that only sees clicks and checkboxes will always miss what matters most. But a system that recognizes people? That builds a community worth contributing to.
