Discord has been an issue for quite some time that ROBLOX has been trying to figure out as to whether or not it’ll work with its platform. Pretty much every developer uses Twitter as a way to connect with their communities including ROBLOX itself.ROBLOX is against this simply because it could expose young players to content that is made public quite easily that can ruin their experience on ROBLOX and upset quite a lot of parents. Google Docs, however, allows for pretty much anything to be posted because it can be made into a personal document or publicly viewed in nearly seconds. It’s inevitable that we’ll face a tweet or twitch stream every now and then that features ToS breaking content. Although you can make the argument that Tweets can feature inappropriate messages and such, however, ROBLOX actively tries to take down such links whenever they can.This is because of Discord’s Terms of Service versus ROBLOX’s Terms of Service. Discord is permitted only because 13+ users can view Discord links that are attached to games.
ROBLOX supports links which they themselves use actively for their platform as long as it works well with their Terms of Service. However, they do not source/cite Google Docs towards any of their stuff.
ROBLOX actively uses Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and arguably Discord.Not only that but they have a limited character limit versus Google Docs. However, twitter links are a lot easier to decipher whether or not it is a legitimate or fabricated link. Google Docs links have limitless potential in-terms of posting content inside of a document versus a tweet.Google Docs links are normally very long and stretched out which often takes up quite a lot of character space and also leaves room for false Google Docs links to be created for users to follow and quite inevitably have their accounts compromised.Using the argument of “well if we have this and we can post possible inappropriate stuff there then why can’t we post Google Docs links” won’t work as the primary argument for several reasons: I see where you’re coming from, however, allowing Google Docs links is a lot riskier than Twitter links and such. It’s really hard to relay to staff members how they’re supposed to act as they do not have a link to our handbook, which contains all of our rules for staff behavior and jobs in the game. However, it would change how staff members of my group act in our games. If Roblox is able to address your issue, how would it improve your game and/or your development experience? Please be as specific as possible. Some group owners have no contact with devforum users who are willing to post for them, and as such are locked out. Lastly, since group owners have to actually be on the devforum, most group owners who aren’t on it won’t be able to post their handbooks and other documents. Additionally, users cannot style their document to match the style of the group. Users also cannot change the font size of text on the devforum. Users cannot change text color on the developer forum, which prevents me from using color coding on my documents. Although images can be used as headers, it often doesn’t look as well as it could on Google Drive. The devforum in general doesn’t have features like automated scrolling to specific sections, headers, footers, etc. This shouldn’t be a problem, but if it is the other off-site links should be looked at.ĭon’t get me wrong, the Bulletin Board category is a great place to post documents, considering we’re allowed to post any document for our group that follows the rules of the devforum and the specific category in general. Twitter can link to inappropriate content, while twitch can do inappropriate streams, etc. Putting it in the group description will look too messy and has a limit which will not meet my requirements.Īny of the present links can be abused.
However, there is no way to link to a handbook without going through twitter or a different platform, which is obviously against the Terms of Service. I just recently gained ownership of a group called Le Tigre Bleu Théâtre, and I want to work on a handbook.
As a Roblox group owner, it is currently too hard to develop professional documents like handbooks, chef recipe book, etc, as Roblox does not allow links to any platforms that are meant for this kind of documents.