I’m still extremely upset about this.
I used to use the forums all the time when trying to solve problems with my code (still do) by just doing a simple google search with my error. Now I can no longer do it.
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Same here, nearly all results are by the roblox forum, but you can’t even open them anymore… It’s horrible.
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I never thought I would miss ‘angrily’ telling people to just read the wiki
In all seriousness though, plenty of times the public scripting forum helped out people struggling with a tought process, and actually reading replies could be very informative if you skip over the sillier ones.
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It’s pretty annoying when I do a google search for a problem that I am having, and I get a result that solves just the problem I need to solve—except that it was on the forums, and so I can’t actually read it.
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For now, you can use Google’s cached pages. They’ll probably remove them eventually, but until then you’ve got a work-around.
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It works. For it to work, log out of roblox or use incognito mode.
You can search the topic you want in the google search box:
site:roblox.com/Forum [ the name of the topic you want to search ]
Then, go to the cached version of the webpage by clicking the down arrow located at the right end of green link. Then click cached. This will only work for a limited a time so this is like your last chance to archive your forum posts. I wouldn’t rely on this method to browse the roblox forum. I would use this method as a last chance to archive forum posts.
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You can use the text version instead of the original page to avoid that 
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These updates make me sad… every time you depreciate another feature it does. Really you are just turning off a group of Roblox players from this platform, you have disconnected and it is turning me away. Sure you got all these new games and developers working hard but you lost touch of what I believe was Roblox.
These updates are appalling and shouldn’t be cheered for, you now outsource your forums to sites that you cannot control. Please make right and work hard to fix these changes that look like quick patches.
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Reposting this because some people decided it’d be better to delete my post, rather than contact me about a meme within the previous one.
The forums provided a multitude of functions that the suggested variants in their current state can’t replace. For starters, the Scripting Helpers subforum (later merged with Scripters) provided a service to the community at large. Many people (including myself) may have never succeeded to any great extent without the help provided by both the regulars and randomers of the subforum. How are you going to replace this service?
Additionally, they allowed game developers to receive structured feedback about their game in Game Design, and as Sonic laid out in a previous post they were immensely useful for guilds. Providing a place for guides, recruitment for the smaller guilds, and so on to take place.
How do you expect to replace these functions? With groups (LOL)? Anybody who knows anything about groups knows that they are terrible for communicating anything. If you wished to use groups as the mode for communication I’m afraid you’re far off from it being in any usable state, substantial work will need to be done to fix it. Or in the case of replacing Scripters with the devforums, the up and comers won’t have any work that will get then in, ergo this doesn’t work either.
Honestly, this move makes no actual sense and is only received the way that it is because we’re not really effected by it. The demos however is, and it is rather disturbing that you decided to shut it down just because some people abused the feature.
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Hi,
I was busy with schoolwork and totally missed this, is there any way there are backups that I could get somehow of my old forums for nostalgia reasons? Thanks.
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Unfortunately that will not be possible.
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For me, a lot of my time spent throughout ROBLOX was on forums, and for this to be stripped away like it never existed currently leaves my profile rather bare, with little to show.
I agree, the forums were used to fester hate and created many conflicts, but nearly every person I met and stayed in contact with was through the forums, and for it just to vanish leaves a rather empty feeling.
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I thought this was good at first, but I don’t think it is now. Can’t even view old threads, ones which contain useful information for groups, scripting etc. and now there are even less places to talk to people. This was a mistake - at least removing them before the group update comes was.
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Just yesterday I was looking up something, there was a forum post that had exactly what I was looking for.
I accidentally clicked on the result to find…the forum shutdown page. I had completely forgotten that the forums were shut down.
Please bring back the scripting and tech support forums. They have lots of old threads that are still relevant and useful to this day.
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It’d be cool if we could get an update on some of the group updates that were planned.
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I’m looking forward to the planned roblox forum update of some sort that roblox have planned for this year. Hopefully they won’t disappoint us!
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@Staff
Everyone is migrating to discords, you do realize.
You can’t stop it if you have literally no substitutes for more serious community commerce of thought.
I know you discourage discords by default, but they have blown up in popularity SO MUCH since the forums shut down, and these discords are a lot more dangerous to young users. Image linking, voice chat, access to direct messaging + linking pictures directly- ALL hidden and secluded to their own channels- this really is the breeding ground for a lot of iffy behaviour. We’ve already had instances of paedophiles preying on young teens in these environments.
Seriously just rush things like contained forums for groups, or promote places like /r/roblox. Something that can be moderated and more public
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Just thought I would post this here, it’s an archive of every forum post in the old forums.
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Thank you so much, nostalgia here I come! . So glad I can view my old forums.
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