Weekly Recap: July 7 - July 11, 2025

Updates Announcements
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Hi Everyone!

We have some exciting updates to share this week, from enhanced search functionality for our docs site to launching In-Experience Auto Setup in Studio Beta! Read on to catch up on any news you might have missed.

Remember - we keep information at a high level within these recaps. For more information or to leave feedback, please comment on their official announcements linked below.

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Betas and Tests

[Studio Beta] In-Experience Auto Setup

  • In-Experience Auto Setup is now live in Studio Beta! This new feature brings the power of our Avatar Auto Setup pipeline, previously only available in Studio, directly into your experiences, allowing users to create fully rigged, skinned, and caged avatars from arbitrary models.
  • We’re releasing it as a Studio Beta for now, allowing you to implement it in your experiences within Studio and provide your valuable feedback as we continue to build it out for a full release in live experiences.

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Announcements

SavePlaceAsync Now Supports All Places

  • The SavePlaceAsync API can now be used to save changes to any place, including those created directly in Studio, not just those created programmatically with CreatePlaceAsync.
  • To enable this new functionality for a Studio-created place, you must activate the “Allow place to be updated using Save Place API” permission setting on the Creator Hub; this change is not required for places already using SavePlaceAsync.

Recent Performance Gains in Experience Chat

  • Since April, we’ve implemented 11 changes, aimed at improving the amount of frame time Experience Chat consumes.
  • When comparing user groups who received all the performance updates against those without, we’ve observed significant lifts to the number of messages sent and number of Experience Chat users.
  • These results clearly demonstrate that our investments in Experience Chat performance are delivering tangible impact to the platform.

Introducing Blocked Words: Enhanced Moderation for Safer Communities

  • Blocked Words lets you filter out unwanted words or phrases from your Walls and Forums (Forums are currently in early access, with general availability coming soon!)
  • Blocked Words allows you to set a customizable list of keywords or phrases.

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Updates

Docs Update: Enhanced Search & Navigation

  • Refined the docs site search functionality to ensure you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for with ease
  • Navigating the Engine API Reference is now more streamlined than ever!

Upcoming Changes to the GetFriendsOnline API

  • This is a final reminder that these changes will be going into effect within the next couple of weeks.
  • If you haven’t already, please read below on how to transition to PromptGameInvite to avoid breakages with any custom referral systems you may have built.

Video Captures now rolling out to users

  • Video Captures are now rolling out to users, allowing them to record and share short video clips of their in-experience moments.
  • You can expect the Video Captures API to roll out soon, giving you the ability to programmatically trigger video recordings within your experiences.

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Release Notes

Release Notes for 681

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Community

Roblox Inspire 2025

  • Inspire is a global event filled with workshops that cover all aspects of creation on Roblox, led by some of the most talented community creators from around the world!
  • Workshops will be live from August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025.
  • For more information, check out the full agenda, explore topics, and meet the speakers by registering here.
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I really like the blocked words stuff. I only skimmed through it when it was posted, but if I’m not wrong, does it only apply to communities? Would be neat if it also automagically applied to the chat in games under said communities as well.

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Not much to talk about this week. Nothing really improved the normal player experience a lot.

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:sparkles: My rating: 32/40

The announcements were fine but the blocked phrases announcement had the blocked phrases moderated which is confusing. A block list shouldn’t be moderated. Seeing how they want to improve experience chat is cool but it should have been optimized from the start.

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Topics I feel should be mentioned:

Server list not showing correct players: Server list showing +1 Players compared to Max Players

Proximity prompt collision group respect: Add ProximityPrompt.CollisionGroup to improve ProximityPrompt.RequiresLineOfSight

Disabling replication on objects or properties: Disabling replication of specific objects or properties

A bunch of feature requests:
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/whats-a-feature-you-want-added-to-roblox/2622128/97

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See you next week, Robloxians!

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The week of updates wasn’t bad but the blocked phrases was very poor executed and should’ve been tested properly. As @WinterStorm_Meow states “A block list shouldn’t be moderated. Seeing how they want to improve experience chat is cool but it should have been optimized from the start.”

By all means this isn’t bad, but We want features that are properly executed and works properly.

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“Blocked words” is probably one of the best features you’ve added so far. Finally, even group walls will be moderated properly, and we can get rid of bots and unwanted messages.

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