Roblox Weekly: Apr 9–15, 2023
Welcome to the first rendition of Roblox Weekly, a brand new newsletter series covering the latest and greatest news, announcements, and events that happen on the Roblox platform. Let’s recap everything that happened for the week of April 9–15, 2023…
Introducing Webhooks
This week, Roblox announced the ability to create Webhooks. For those unaware, awebhook is a mechanism for sending real-time notifications or data between two different applications or services over the internet, such as Roblox and a third-party messaging tool. Webhooks are useful for automating workflows between Roblox and third-party applications that you use for collaborating with your team, as they allow for real-time data sharing and processing (source: Roblox Docs).
To get started, head to the Creator Dashboard and navigate to your Settings page.
From here, you can then create a new Webhook. You will then fill out the fields to include the Webhook URL, Name, Content Type, the ability to include a Secret, and Triggers. Currently, the only supported trigger is when a user submits a “right to erasure” request.
Currently, you can create up to 5 webhooks at a time. Roblox fully supports webhook notifications for Discord, Guilded, and Slack for the event of user requesting to erase their “Right to be forgotten” data. Using webhooks with other third-party tools carries the risk of not receiving all notifications. Learn more about setting up webhooks or how to make the most of webhooks.
Keep Track of Where You’re Logged In
Roblox has added a new Security setting that lists where your account is logged in. It shows the platform, location, date and time. When clicking on a session, you have the ability to log out of that session, or log out of all sessions. Head to your Settings page to learn more.
Jazwares Reveals New ‘DevSeries’ Roblox Toy Line
Toy company Jazwares has created a new toy line in partnership with some of the top creators on the Roblox platform. This new line of toys is called “DevSeries,” and are available right now on the DevSeries website. This new line of toys includes merchandise from experiences such as Arsenal, Brookhaven RP, Jailbreak, Murder Mystery 2, Tower of Hell, and others. Each toy also comes with an exclusive code which you can redeem for a virtual item for your Roblox avatar.
Terrain Tool Additions and Improvements
Creating detailed terrains is an essential part of building immersive experiences. Now, it’s even easier with 2 improvements Roblox just announced to the terrain tools: the add/subtract tool w/ no plane lock function and a faster/more efficient smooth tool.
It’s Your Time To Shine: Get Featured on Roblox’s Social Channels
Want to be featured on the Roblox social channels? Whether you create engaging experiences, innovative avatar marketplace items, or just have a story to tell, you can submit an application to have a chance at your work being showcased! Featured content will focus on creations that reimagine the way people come together through deeper forms of expression, communication, and immersion.
If you would like to fill out an application, you can so so here. Once you submit your application, you will receive an email within 14 days letting you know if you have been accepted into the program. Questions? Check the FAQ.
It’s GameOver for Roblox Development Studio Gamefam
Over the past few months, Gamefam has been in some hot water after multiple employees have come out about poor working conditions at the company. This week, another employee came out and called out Gamefam for punishing them for discussing wages with colleagues. Check out the news article I wrote about it earlier this week for the full story:
Experience Join Improvements
To help improve join times and server performance in experiences, Roblox announced a few changes:
Increased Maximum Server Size to 200
700 player servers have been in beta for a while. From the beta, some devs have built larger experiences so Roblox is making a change that will allow everyone to create experiences with 200-player servers.
Join Queue Improvements
Roblox recently released a Join Queue feature, an ordered first-come first-serve approach for joining a full-server. With the launch of this feature in March, failed join attempts have reduced by by 3% and expect to improve this further with UX enhancements.
Changes to Social Slot Reservations
Roblox is working on enhancing the default Roblox Optimize option to consider both occupancy and friend spots. However, to address this issue in the short term, the customizable value will be limited to 20% to take advantage of the larger server sizes. This change will go into effect on May 1st, 2023.
And that’s a wrap! Thanks for tuning in to this week’s Roblox Weekly. Come back here next week to see what Roblox will be up to next. To keep up to date with the latest and greatest Roblox news, follow Bloxy News on social media.
