Hio, so I have noticed that in the new user search page when you search a player up, it no longer displays the date that the player was “last online”. Personally in my experience on roblox, I found it quite useful sometimes actually. It was sometimes inaccurate but only primarily for old users that haven’t been active for a long period of time (as in, their “last online” date was sometimes inaccurately the same as their roblox join date) therefore it was fine for the most part. However, now it only displays the user’s character image, username, and their online status.
I am curious if there was any reason(s) for why this “last online” feature was removed? (or if it could possibly be re-added to the new search page in the near future)
Also personally, I’m not a google chrome extension developer but I am curious if it would be possible to code & create a google chrome extension so that the user search page again displays the useful “last online” date (although I have some doubts if that would even work).
But I am hoping for a clarification/reply from a staff member about the main point here
I wonder if there’s even a way to get the Last online date, as I only remember it being on the search page. An extension can’t display information it doesn’t have.
Looking into the results JSON, these two are always null:
However, LastLocation correctly displays in a separate JSON (which is also loaded with every search), but I haven’t found anything related to a date or time.
As long as it exists, then personally I’m fine if it’s on either page lol. It may also be helpful to see the last online date/time of friends in the “Chat & Party” menu (after all, they’re on your friend list).
That wouldn’t be nearly as helpful as it being on the Player Search, you’d only be able to see that data for those you chatted with or your other friends if it were in the chatbar.
Often when scouting out amateur builders I used the last online date to figure out if they still exist.
I recently stumbled upon a place created by someone I wanted to build for me and I learned from that date that he hadn’t logged on in years. I think adding it to the profile page would be helpful! This is something supported by most social platforms.
Simplification. It’s true that only showing what’s necessary is good practice and leads to a better user experience in general, but it’d be great if the web team followed up whenever they removed something and provided a way to see more detailed info. Every product has power users and pretending they don’t exist is unwise.
Very true, I personally hate using the mobile app/don’t even use it because it almost never has the info that I want to see or doesn’t show me enough info.
