Introducing ROBLOX live chat

Yesterday, we integrated a new feature called ROBLOX live chat into the site. With ROBLOX live chat, you can chat with your ROBLOX friends anywhere on the site!

During the next few weeks, we will be turning the chat on and off during select times so that you can help us test it – look for the pink banner telling you that we’ve turned it on.

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Badges, Badges, Badges… Mushroom! Mushroom!

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The ROBLOX Team presents: an incredibly exciting release! We’ve got so much stuff in here, I’ve been procrastinating on writing this blog post, running around my house and jumping up and down for the past two hours, because it is too exciting to even convey in words. I can say without hyperbole: it is impossible to overhype this latest release. So… what have we got?

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Status Updates, Best Friends, and Feeds, oh my

We were feeling social these last few weeks, so we’ve brought you a whole bunch of new social features to enjoy on Roblox.com.

Status Updates

Now you can update your status on Roblox, and tell all your friends what you’re doing right now. You can update your status by clicking on My Roblox or by viewing your own profile page while logged in. All status updates will be visble to all of your friends, and will show up in the feeds of those who have you as a best friend. Tell them how you’re pwning the opposition… then shamefully admit how you got pwned 5 minutes in.

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And Now … Turbo Builders Club

My fellow ROBLOXians! Today I write you with some very exciting news. Here at the ROBLOX headquarters we’ve realized the need for a more exclusive membership option. As our league of Builders Club members has become larger we’ve decided to offer a membership option with greater rewards: one that will make you richer, cooler, and definitely better looking… We present the Turbo Builders Club.

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Focusing on Performance

I’ve been talking to a bunch of you and I know that everyone wants more performance. ROBLOX users will achieve ultimate happiness when we have a 1,000,000 block world with 1,000 players updating at 100 FPS (frames per second). No promises on when that day will be, but until then, here is what we are doing to improve performance. We just pushed a new release today that will allow us to measure many things that our users experience, such as…

Install Success Rate: We want to see how high we can push this (already pretty high)

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