Roblox Recap: August 2024
Catch up on the latest and greatest Roblox platform news, updates, and announcements for the month of August 2024.
Hello, Robloxians! Thanks for tuning in to the Roblox Recap monthly newsletter, a quick and easy way to get caught up on everything happening each month on the Roblox platform. Here’s a summary of the latest and greatest news, updates, and announcements for August 2024…
New Features
- Data selling/sharing and personalized ads ↗️
- Ban Dashboard on the Creator Hub ↗️
- Search Ads ↗️
- Gamepad and Keyboard navigation support for the Desktop App ↗️
- Improvements to Badge Privacy (create disabled Badges, API will no longer fetch disabled Badges) ↗️
- Text Scaling Setting (Studio Beta) ↗️
- Vietnamese Language now Available in Studio ↗️
- Visualization Modes in Studio ↗️
- New Tutorials and a Staff Article Collaboration added to Creator Documentation ↗️
Updates
- Creator Roadmap update: Summer 2024 ↗️
- Updated modesty layer policies for clothing on the Avatar Marketplace ↗️
- Price floors introduced to Heads and Bodies on the Avatar Marketplace ↗️ | Track the latest price floor changes ↗️
- 8 new Materials now available in Client Beta ↗️
- Fix for unread Chat notifications not disappearing after read ↗️
- SurfaceAppearance Tinting now live in production ↗️
- 2024 H1 Physics Recap ↗️
Coming Soon
- Coming Soon: Avatar Particle Effects hidden while in first-person (mid-September) ↗️
- Coming Soon: Create and upload custom outfits using existing accessories to the Avatar Marketplace (in the coming months) ↗️
- Experiment: Automatic Icon & Thumbnail Translation (Aug 20 — Sep 3) ↗️
- Experiment: In-Experience Phone Number Verification (2–3 weeks) ↗️
- Experiment: Increasing Server Memory (Concluded) ↗️
- Testing: Sort Charts page by experiences popular on device type ↗️
- Revamp: Genres temporarily disabled while new system is being worked on ↗️
- Removal: Compatibility Lighting becomes Retro Tone Mapping (over the next few months) ↗️
Events
- The Games ↗️
- Inspire 2024 ↗️
- Countdown to RDC 2024 (September 6–7) ↗️
- Video Star Program applications open through September 15th ↗️
Corporate
In case you missed it…
Catch up on the July 2024 Recap for a full list of news, updates, and announcements released last month:
Tune in to the latest episode of Bloxy News: LIVE next Monday, September 9, 2024 at 11:00AM PT where everything in this Blog post plus a recap of RDC 2024 will be showcased in detail live on stream:
That’s a wrap! Check back next month for a new Roblox Recap, and follow Bloxy News on social media to keep up to date with the latest and greatest Roblox news! Whatever’s happening on Roblox, it’s all here.
