I think the change was too sudden, though I understand why they ripped off the bandage here.
There were a bunch of communities in each subforum that are all dead immediately because of this change. If there was a heads-up, the communities could organize themselves so they don’t fall apart (i.e. “Join this group if you’re an LMaDer!”)
I expect the /r/Roblox subreddit to soon be bustling with activity.
If ROBLOX had made an announcement before the forums were made to be Read-Only, everyone would have lost their crap and nuked the forums. I don’t think anything very constructive would have occurred.
I agree with this. Kinda like the failure that YouTube comments for discussions. I really hope we get an alternative that isn’t disguising offsite links to things like Reddit.
Not complaining about the forums being gone. It has been plagued by hostile people and baiters for years.
Removing the forums was a great idea.
The bad part of this is that, again, there is no suitable replacement for forums, as the Roblox groups feature is sub-tier and outdated.
Yeah, I feel this is a positive move for ROBLOX, as the forums are no longer used in a way they are intended for.
However, I do feel ROBLOX should provide alternatives for us, as a lot of groups used forums to get information across to their members.
While I haven’t been using the forums myself, I think that it’s a bad idea to remove them.
The reason that I ain’t using them would be that I ain’t in a clan or any sort of Roblox group which actively uses it. I’m aware though that there are a lot of clans and Roblox groups which do actively use them. Some because they’d like to have some interaction with their community, and others because they’ve written down some rules their group enforces, or an announcement because the group shout has a character limit.
I feel like that we need a more modern functionality to communicate with group / clan members though, as we’ve also seen the improving enforcement about the off-site linking. I think that the off-site linking will improve if we don’t have a way to share information to our group members. People will make important announcements through Twitter and link it to a document, or something. An improved forum alternative would be really useful and I’m sure that the clan / group community would appreciate this.
Just a heads up, when the forums are finally closed, please remember to remove the forum posts statistic from user profiles. It seems that every time a section of the site is changed or removed, some aspect of it is skipped over by accident.
I’m very sad to see this change happen and I think Roblox is losing a great source of engagement by doing this. Had the forum not existed when I joined Roblox I likely would have never progressed past playing games and certainly wouldn’t still be active 9 years later. Groups don’t replace the center of discussion that the forums created where users could feel connected to the Roblox community as a whole. The bug reports, scripting helpers and building helpers sections also provided value that will be hard to replace with groups.
It’s also very sad to see that Roblox will not be hosting archives of the old forums, there is some amazing history there that will be lost forever. I really enjoy looking back at old posts to see how Roblox was in previous years. Old posts from notable users and from the first Roblox employees as they figured things out and communicated directly with the community are fascinating to look at and very much a part of the story of Roblox.
Would it be possible for something like this to be done? Even off-site, if necessary.
While I agree with removing the forums for the highly toxic community it fostered, this leaves game/group managers with no way of sharing long posts of information with their fans. (such as rules posts, longer update notes, or anything else that’s too long to fit in a group shout or description)
A lack of any method for sharing long posts will seriously stifle my ability to communicate with my fans. There is not nearly enough character space to fit all of your important information into one shout or description. Either the character limits need to be increased by a lot, or there needs to be other methods of making longer information posts. I hope something of the sort is in the works ASAP.
I believe this was a good call made by Roblox. It seems clear that the best way to avoid negativity is to eliminate a place that easily has as much negativity to view.
Though I’d be lying if I say I’ll not miss the forum, even though I really never used it. When I did however, there was some really funny stuff to see and there were some pretty nice people there too. At least we still have groups, it’s a fair alternative.
We need a group overhaul more than ever, now that the forums are gone.
I cannot completely decide if this was a good idea, but at least we don’t have to worry about being warned/banned for a three/four year old forum post. That was pretty ridiculous. Groups should be in a green-light for being overhauled.
This is really a surprise!
To be honest, I’m kinda happy about the forums being shut down but at the same time, I’m not.
It’s good because mostly, there can be a negative atmosphere in the forums but it’s bad as clans use their Clans & Guilds section for rules and more.
Don’t forget about the scripting helper’s forum!
One concern though. Will groups be good enough to “replace” the forums?
The group overhaul has had its green-light for a while now (ie, green-light for doing it), however last I heard it was pushed back in light of higher priority tasks.
Can we at least have a functional/easier to use groups page first?
The Forums are an important way of communication with the community, and while I do agree that it has been really toxic for some years now and that this measure was unfortunately needed, there are some… uh, “use cases” for it we will need a replacement later on.
There simply isn’t enough space for anything in the group description box. We can’t use Discord or Pastebin either, so we’re pretty much left with nothing here to write clan guides, tutorials and the alike.
Communities like the trading community will have to rely on external websites/platforms because the group wall’s filter is often stricter than the Forums’. Preventing people from flocking over to external services like Discord and Reddit will be harder than ever before.
With the Forums, we had some sort of category division per say, with the different subforums and such. Now, we’ll have to join groups related to our interests - but given that the majority of the userbase is NBC, we’ll only have limited spaces for them - and again, we will need to move on to outside services to fulfill that need.
A lot of friends (developers, video makers, creators in general) I know started their careers in the Forums, because exposure/help there was great. One of the things that made me get interested in Roblox were the Forum Simulators - albeit offensive sometimes, they were funny and hooked me into this universe.
Please tell me the group overhaul will actually be looked upon this time
Groups are really broken, though. It should be some sort of priority. Especially when some large developer groups rely on them. 
A replacement should be a high priority investment. As others suggested, the group page needs a overhaul or entire communities will go dark in terms of keeping their fan base in the loop of things.
Removing the forums and no replacement? This puts so much more distance between Roblox and the community. How will Roblox know how it’s average users feel about things? It’s like they are being silenced.
And it is being removed because we can’t find a solution to moderation? How does this problem apply to only the forums?
I also feel, since other non-specified 3rd party communication applications 
aren’t allowed on site, a replacement is required. Communities need ways to communicate with their audience.