True, but people with bad intentions will take any chance they can get.
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Agreed. People will always have bad intentions though, removing the forums or not.
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To be completely honest, I think this is a fair and much needed change. The public forums have always been kind of the âshadowy corner no one talks aboutâ when it came to ROBLOX. It, for the most part, was just the toxic, unsupervised kids working their way around the chat filters to curse at each other. We have the DevForum still, and I believe it will likely gain usage very quickly due to the change.
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Someone highlight this personâs comment a bright shade of red 
But honestly, yes. Great advice!
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Iâm quite sad to see the forums go, I kind of disagree with the closure of the forums. Whilst having empathy for the reason of âNo longer capable of providing a positive environment proven to be prone to excessive abuseâ - I feel that this took little approach to being resolved.
Roblox is powered by user generated content, what makes Roblox so successful and dynamic is having a social platform where users can interact with each other to build and speculate about the site and games. Removing the forums only limits the social platform by a huge factor, and also removes a great history of the game. Yes groups are great but they are again limiting the diversity of the site by separating the community into separate groups.
I feel that there could of been better approaches to solving the problem such as completely redesigning the forums which was hardly done. The only attempt was removing the less relevant forums which wouldnât solve the issue of âexcessive abuse and negativity.â I feel to solve this, or at-least attempt, users should be prompted to post with respect rather than have the option to view the forum rules in a scrappy thread. A few words can go a long way, as-well as this a new list of forum topics and a redesigned forum to engage users into new topics such as Game Spotlights, YouTubing, Graphics and UI, Building/modelling forum, Audio, items, etc⌠There could of been so many more possibilities to expand the forums into a much more useful sector as well-as having the same social effect.
I spent a good few years using LMaD, Especially with the trade system being a prime feature of builders club and on the navigation bar, itâs ironic to see that dissapear.
Just posting my thoughts, if thereâs one time Iâd have to post this to ressurect the forums itâd have to be now before theyâre gone for good.
Thanks
-Simon
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âNo longer capable of providing a positive environment proven to be prone to excessive abuseâ
Then lets try some things. Put an account age limit on accounts, if you get banned for a forum post you arenât allowed back for a while, other requirements to post, etc. Anything is better than just deleting an entire section of communication that has been there since the beginning.
I havenât posted much since 2013 but Iâm feeling pretty cut off from people now. How am I to talk to a large group of randoms that isnât in some game that probably has mostly young kids in it?
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This has the potential to cripple and kill Roblox, not because the forums were âamazingâ or anything, but because they provided a way for users to stay invested in Roblox at higher ages when they started getting bored of front page nonsense.
Forums to me represent the bridge between the fad-like âWow cool! ok bored now!â volitility of kids attention spans and invested community members who invest time into more serious games, discussions, and even develop content.
Forums are very ugly on the surface, I refer to it as 4chan 4 Kidz, but itâs not holding a negative value on Roblox.
You failed to moderate it, failed to keep sections related to their own topics so each forum board became a mishmash of unrelated subjects, ripe for ânonsenseâ-posting to take the reigns. The loud core community of Roblox has deteriorated with the event of things like removing comments, filtering ALL messages regardless of age to ABSURD levels, and not providing superior centralized hubs for communication.
THIS FORUM IS NOT A GOOD SUBSTITUTE. It is not open to everyone, so for your average player who might look to get invested some more on Roblox, this place is meaningless. Everyoneâs true opinions are extremely censored here, plenty of us are good examples of those who chose to âplay by the rulesâ and sugarcoat everything we actually want.
The voices of developers do not reflect the voices of the community. Not always. Why would people who have access to these forums care about the players invested in the other âinferiorâ forums? Also, wouldnât you think this exclusive club of elites is the reason no one holding any strong community standing exists on Roblox outside of their own segmented groups/ fandoms?
I hate the Roblox Forums, despite spending a lot of time on it in my youth. But you have to consider the ramifications of a âno hubâ community, that deteriorates and becomes a massive fad only supported by smaller fads.
Roblox does not have a monopoly on kids entertainment.
They will leave when they are bored. As bad as it feels, the forums were the âmature step upâ in the average Robloxianâs community involvement. Without it, they have no investment in Roblox, and will drop this platform for a new shinier one without a second thought.
DO FOCUS ON GROUPS.
Group games are a great remedy to the user investment angle. But groups in the state they are in now are no good. Please listen to your developers; they have plenty of great ideas and suggestions because they themselves are heavily invested in their self started communities.
My personal suggestion would be to create a âhubâ for groups, similar in nature to forums, where groups have the opportunity to have cross-site discussion on topics of their interests. A hub.
Let each group have its own self contained personal forums as well. The group wall is garbage. People will show you evidence upon request. Something more controlled, less ârandomâ, more structured would greatly benefit all groups and their respective communities.
But please note, that without any âhubâ for the community to discuss things, Roblox will deteriorate, and it will die a death filled with fads, lack of appeal to new demographic, superior competition, and a lack of backbone that sticks with Roblox through the thick and thin.
People will come and go at a faster rate.
Please consider this. Many of our futures depend on you substituting this lack of backbone in the community, and keeping a large portion of the community invested in Roblox.
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As a followup and a âgist of my pointâ message,
Roblox is betting too much on a purely âfad basedâ approach, appealling to a very fleeting demographic that will not stick with them, and is now taking active measures to lop off means for users to get invested.
Without a remedy Roblox will kill its future stability, and do a massive disservice to the most invested users: the developers.
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Although the forums have been used as a place of much negativity and hate, the scripterâs subforum is where I as well as countless other users have stepped into the developing side of roblox. Without a place to talk to other people and receive quick helpful replies from the great scripters of the subforum (such as cntkillme, chimmihc, Isosta, and WunderWulfe), I doubt I would have gained half as much scripting knowledge by attempting to learn everything by myself. Groups are in no way a proper substitute for the forums where Iâve had such a great and memorable time over the past year Iâve been playing roblox. They provided an easily accessible place for the community to interact, share ideas, and have fun together that isnât present in any game or group on the site. The thought of the forums getting removed is one that saddens me greatly and I will be sure to download some especially memorable threads for future reference.
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This will likely incur heavy backlash for months from the community. Granted, as a company itâs in the best interests of Roblox. However, community and group-wise, I think this will really be a giant obstacle, and will stop a lot of communication between players. In my opinion, itâs horrible. I learnt a lot about scripting and development, and was able to meet many other developers and great people through the forum. Itâs a shame, honestly.
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100% with you.
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If they donât remedy this, itâs actually very much to their own detriment
No platform for the userbase to grow investment in Roblox as a whole? Whole userbase turns into a volatile group of children who will leave as quickly as they come.
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It really makes me sad to see that theyâre removing it. I wish they atleast archived the scripting helpers part. The forums is where I learned most of my coding as a new member⌠Whenever I had issues, I simply googled in hope to find something similar to my problem and I usually always found some old/new topics that solved my issues. I know a lot of other developers have done/are doing this, it will be a huge blow to all new/current devs as so many resources are being thrown awayâŚ
Now, I know that https://scriptinghelpers.org/ also exists, but itâs definitely nowhere as active/full of resources as the forums. 
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I am going to have a hard time when it comes to to learning new aspects of scripting I never really knew how to CFrame without scripting forumsâŚ
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I mean, consider this. The DevForum was created a few years back to cultivate the development community specifically, and itâs grown like crazy over its lifetime. Now, I know what youâre thinking. âLentzified, you gun making fool, there wonât be any way for new developers to collaborate!â With the new updates announced by NightgladedId in early November, I think that the Basic User and Member ranks are going to very effectively help beginner developers with expanding their horizons, while providing the type of moderation needed to keep it, well, not like the Public Forums.
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I donât like this at all, how do groups make their rules, information, etc.? Weâre going to be forced to use offsite links to like twitter to have our group information, policies, laws, war declarations, etc⌠Itâs not a good idea, 100% removing it isnât cool, there has to be an alternative.
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I donât think youâve read through this entirely. Thereâs the bulletin board here on the forums for that purpose.
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Iâd like to hear what Robloxâs plans are for a good alternative. âSometime next yearâ doesnât mean much because thatâs a ton of time and we all know how stuff just doesnât get done or gets delayed. And this is really something that should not be delayed. The forums are a massive part of roblox. As @Aurarus stated, itâs a vital bridge between casually playing a game and starting to become someone that makes a game.
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I found something on reddit where a whole community of people are attempting to archive the whole entire forum or at least the useful parts of it.
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Pretty much my thoughts exactly, my main scepticism about this update remains to be this line from the pinned post on the forums:
âThis coming year, weâll be investigating options to re-build forums that better serve you, our community, and our goals in providing a safe and constructive environment.â
Call me cynical, but that line just screams of damage control to me; An empty commitment to try and appease those not convinced by the update. I realize that sounds a little dramatic but consider that this sort of thing has been done several times in the past, a good example of this was the removal of tickets (Which by the way is an update I was completely fine with) : NBC users were promised alternative incentives for logging in such as milestone rewards, yet that never saw the light of dayâŚ
So if anything, Iâm yet to be convinced weâll have a proper solution to this other than the already provided sledgehammer tactics. Thereâs no denying that the Roblox forums harboured some of the worst of the community, but that also doesnât deny that the forums served a significant function for users. I also donât really agree with this mentality some have that âoh we have the dev forums so itâs fineâ because the perks that come from a forum environment like this should be seen as a basic necessity for users and not a privilege that needs to be granted.
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