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Dave Brown @rail.works · 03/12/2025

I told Roblox this was going to go wrong Roblox replied to me telling me basically nothing Roblox did it anyway. The results are obvious and expected. devforum.link/4079702/3990

A long thread from railworks2 on the DevForums complaining the changes. He talks about legal reporting being removed and the expected impact from his time as a moderator

Two replies from one Roblox Staff in response to the previous reply. They note some details about a mistake in my reply as well as how owners could in the future be able to see all chats.

A retrospective showing the original comment as well as an extensive reply highlighting that what we expected has happened and will continue to happen.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 09/08/2025

Roblox has now decided it does not give a shit about the good thing it's done for a year by quietly giving absolutely zero data how well their moderation team has done in some key areas

Screenshot showing two of Roblox's California AB 587 transparency reports. On the left is Q1 and Q2 2024 and on the right is Q3 and Q4 2024. On the left is a number of tables showing data behind Roblox's Terms, on the right is Roblox's Terms of Use and little of anything else

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/07/2025

You know it’s a great start to a Monday when you’re woken up at 5am by some house alarms going off and you can’t quite get back to sleep

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 30/05/2025

Now that's awesome, you can now exploit your own place to test anti exploits devforum.link/3640609/460

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 24/05/2025

Big congrats to all of the team behind Grow a Garden for hitting a massive 8.373 million CCU For some context, this is 2.57x the peak CCU of PUBG back in 2018 when it launched, the highest CCU in Steam records. Now that is the power of #Roblox

Graph showing CCUs over the last 48 hour period. Highlighted is a peak at 15:00 BST which shows concurrent users hit 8,373,094

Steam charts for PUBG which showed the all time player count peak of 3,257,248

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 23/05/2025

Can confirm I'm still alive, it's nice to be doing other things At the same time, it's fun to see what has changed in the Roblox space; so I visited Twitter for the first time in 6 months, turns out very little has changed. Too many people are still there, what will it take? No idea

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 22/04/2025

You know, Roblox should absolutely make this a gift item. That or I make it myself ⁠Original post: chaos.social/@blinry/1086...

Screenshot of a Mastodon post showing a Lua ruler in someone’s hand. The post says “Here, take a Lua ruler! It starts with one!”

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 31/03/2025

That's pretty awesome, players can now give feedback directly. Thanks Roblox devforum.link/3588091

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 11/03/2025

I will say it's great to see RDC announced with plenty of time. But I don't know about it being a 2 day affair again. It just feels too short, and I'm happy the replies say that. With the current state of the US? Doubt I'll want to travel devforum.link/3546082

devforum.roblox.com

Save the Date: RDC25

Hey Developers - Get ready… We’re thrilled to announce the Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) is coming back as a virtual and in-person event to San Jose on September 5-6! What is RDC? ...

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 18/02/2025

Roblox's annual report is now available to all. ir.roblox.com/financials/s... DAU down, RoW and Asia up 1%, men up 1%, console up 1%, age adjusted slightly. No breakdown of creators graph. Top experiences taking up more room across the board

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 06/02/2025

Sadly I don't get the joy of ordering Girl Scout cookies from here in the UK. But if you do and you're from the US, here's a list of 100 Girl Scounts you should totally order from www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-tra…

erininthemorning.com

2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 20/01/2025

“What have I done to be here”

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 01/01/2025

Happy new year and welcome to 2025! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda a chroeso i 2025! The clock has reset, even though 2024 might not have been your year you're still here and that's great. Let's make the most of it, even if with the small wins.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 25/12/2024

Nadolig Llawen Feliz Navidad Merry Christmas

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 15/12/2024

In a related affair, it’s been fun to run Coolify locally, to self host some tools like a GitHub alternative and a Google Photos alternative. I’m not entirely sure if I prefer it over Proxmox but I think it has a place in my infra. Just about finding the right tool for the right project

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/12/2024

Roses are red, violets are blue. Your service is cancelled, due to a lack of train crew.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/12/2024

Whenever my feed gets quiet, it does make me wonder if it’s quiet because A. folks not got a reason to post (entirely valid) or B. They’ve returned back to Twitter The fun part is that with B, I can’t tell because I’ve blocked Twitter on my network, it is a bit frustrating if they do go back

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 13/12/2024

Thank you Roblox. Very cool

Hi railworks2,

We’re excited to share an update that makes your Roblox experience even better.

Starting today, when you purchase gift cards or Robux on web and computer, you’ll receive up to 25% more Robux. This gives you more ways to unlock creativity and fun on Roblox.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 26/11/2024

Eight. Eighteen. Eleven. Fifteen. Five. Four. Fourteen. Nine. Nineteen. One. Seven. Seventeen. Six. Sixteen. Ten. Thirteen. Three. Twelve. Twenty. Twenty Four. Twenty One. Twenty Three. Twenty Two. Two. 8, 18, 11, 15, 5, 4, 14, 9, 19, 1, 7, 17, 6, 16, 10, 13, 3, 12, 20, 24, 21, 23, 22, 2.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 01/11/2024

That's actually a decent response to the backlash, I'm happy Roblox took the feedback on board. Ignoring the fact that the order of everything is still off, it at least feels clearer as a message devforum.link/3237100/387

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 31/10/2024

Let's gooo! devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-arc...

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 31/10/2024

Welcome to Rail tries to communicate the obvious again devforum.link/3237100/223 I have a feeling the PM behind the new parental control features have tried to push this so down our throats and hope it'll work. It's not and Roblox is paying for it.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 28/10/2024

Would you like to convert your old Tweets into Markdown? I've created a script to do exactly that, designed first for Jekyll but designed to easily adapt to what you need github.com/railworks2/twote-archive…

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 27/10/2024

A fun update to The Archive coming very soon. As part of my cleaning up of Twitter, it's important that the things I've said continues to exist in some form. All 4.6k posts will be available in an easily searchable way

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sleitnick @sleitnick.com · 24/10/2024

Pro-tip: Use `debug.traceback` when calling `warn` so that your logs show where it came from. #RobloxDev

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 18/10/2024

Meanwhile I'm writing an email to Roblox's legal team asking what is going on their their report to Cali's OAG on moderation Why no one noticed that 648 approved appeals is not the 15.8k that's in the two other tables

Screenshot of a document about moderation appeals at Roblox and how well they've done. It's contains tables on the category and type of content. One table has some really low numbers for approved appeals compared to the rest of what the screenshot shows.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 17/10/2024

I'm be honest, it's sort of frustrating that there's not been one platform where a majority of Roblox developers exist Apart from the Roblox DevForums and Discord (expect most developers aren't in the same Discord)

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