Does this mean per category:
- We can’t have more than 500 favorites
- We can’t see beyond 500 favorites (unfavoriting one will bring the 501st one into visibility)
- Favoriting over 500 items will overwrite old favorites
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I’m not bothered by it much as it won’t personally affect me. However, for a supposed “multi billion dollar company” an update like this is ridiculous considering the site has managed to withstand 500+ for the entirety of its existence, but of course what do I know.
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That’s sort of what I thought.
I mean, aren’t favorites really just a list of strings directing to a place or item?
Even if stored in text format, the file size would probably only be like 10 kilobytes or something and on top of that it can easily be compressed.
You probably also only need the ID which is like 8 - 10 numbers long which is even smaller than having the full link.
I doubt if a text file format containing 500 place links is going to be that large, text is very easy to store in a small and compact format.
Oh on top of that, Youtube allows you to make video playlists which can have 5000 videos per playlist and doesn’t seem to struggle loading/paging these either.
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I’m assuming there must be some other reason, but you’re right that it would definitely be a small amount of data to store.
You could store any game/experience with 5 bytes of data (using binary converted to characters), which covers over 1 trillion IDs. But add an extra byte per game to store a separator, that way there can be dynamic sizes. So 500 saved games/experiences would be only 3kb. That would mean you could store over 1.6k favorites just under 10kb. If you didn’t add the extra byte for dynamic sizing, it would only be 2.5kb for 500 favorites and 2k favorites for 10kb, which would be a 20% increase.
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So, if the website itself doesn’t show past 500, how are you supposed to see the rest of your favorites without unfavoriting a ton of games? This post doesn’t seem to list an alternative or method of seeing your favorited games past the 500th, just that the limitation now exists and there’s nothing that can be done about it. How will users that might not see this devforum post know that their old favorites are now effectively being made inaccessible?
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Does this include our OWN favorites as well, or just when you view another player?
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That’s the neat part, you don’t!
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I have over 720 favorites so i know what your talking about 
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I am very grateful for this contribution. But because I’m very unconfident about my ability to understand this code can anybody vouch for this code? Just want to be safe 
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aw man, I have 932 games favorited. I hope that there will be options to view past 500
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All the code does is get your favourites and print them out in the console. It’s safe but I can’t guarantee you won’t die instantly after executing it.
Those errors are from the Roblox website. I’m not really sure why they happen but they aren’t related to anything you did. The code worked and it printed out your favourites right above them
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what is 11469 hidden?
fav game?
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roblox regularly sends megabytes of data to clients loading textures and meshes in games but the like 7 people in the world who scroll that far in peoples inventories are too much for the metaverse to handle
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That’s a huge shame for users who’ve played Roblox for a while or are just prone to favoriting every game they liked just a little - or for those who like to have an easier way to get around the largely hard (or nearly impossible) to navigate website, is this change actually necessary for a company of Roblox’s size? Surely this wasn’t the end all be all choice that had to be made, there must be other options other than shooting another feature of the platform in the shins so it’s worse than it could have been, or already was.
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thanks for this script!! just ran it and discovered i have 3044 favorite places would’ve lost so much to history if it weren’t for you
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Thanks for the script. I feel like this is something Roblox should be offering de facto with a change like this.
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I don’t know what the 11469 hidden means since I’m not very familiar with Chrome. It isn’t a favourite game or anything though as those are only outputted within the console
this sucks. I have approximately 1.4k favorite games and I play the old ones sometimes. Please give us a way to track our all our favorite games.
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Glad that we were made aware of this before it happened! I can start unfavoriting old items and games I don’t like/play anymore without worrying about the oldest ones disappearing without knowing the reason.
Honestly this isn’t a bad update either since the pages stop working past that point anyway.