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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 · 26/11/2025

James... I can't believe you've done this to me I am now burdened for life with this information

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 09/08/2025

At the same time, such groups massively increase the workload needed to handle these sorts of cases in a way which doesn't help the people at the core of these cases, the victims and the people hurting those victims Roblox just needs to communicate more, 15 min response times are great but not said

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 09/08/2025

These reports are released a while ago and don't represent that content creator, it just flagged me to check if it has been posted Realistically the existence of a vigilante group is a failure of both Roblox and law enforcement, it's a failure of both systems if it has to exist

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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 · 26/07/2025

My brain just went Point of Sale

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 25/07/2025

Same vibe as that, tell the user this persons DMs are open and sending a friend request is not required

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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

Oh well, back to writing code. It's going well, it's nice writing some fun micro websites

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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 · 13/05/2025

TBF AI is a drug so an editor focused entirely around using a drug to be more “productive” is a pretty easy way to ruin a generation of developers and cause them to be dependent on AI forever

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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 · 20/03/2025

The worst part for me is that getting PIP is a requirement for other things like the disabled railcard I was disabled enough as a child to get PIP, exam adjustments, disabled student allowance, but today I’m not considered disabled enough and thus I lose my disabled railcard access

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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 · 04/03/2025

Damn Im not in the photo

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 18/02/2025

Finally, Roblox is continuing to seek acquisitions and investments. Roblox in concerned about US v China due to Luobu. No change in dividends. Roblox continues to lease the old HQ offices, ending between 2027 and 2031. *This is not financial advice, I do not hold any $RBLX stock*

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 18/02/2025

Since last year: - 10 more countries - UGC reviewed from 300 to 400 mil - CS Wait time from 22 to 18 min - DevExable devs from 16.5k to 24.5k. 12k to 17k+ did DevEx. - No change in Roblox headcount

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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

(Slight tangant, the title's wording is a bit confusing, it's a list of girl scouts who are trans but are not just transwomen, includes our enbies and transmen too)

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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

Low quality oddly cropped in photos work wonders

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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 · 05/01/2025

Happy birthday, here’s a meme involving a cat, best of both worlds

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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

I did briefly hear about Komodo and yes I’m currently using Immich Right now it’s mostly been seeing what works for me

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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 · 15/12/2024

I find it the most understandable reason, not a doubt in my mind I suspect my fear comes from the idea that someone’s normal posting rate has dramatically changed and that maybe some abandonment has occurred Something I’ve seen many times before (👀 Mastodon)

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/12/2024

Makes sense. I tend to care about reachability due to me covering news that does need to go viral sometimes (to an extent) If it’s direct from Roblox, I’ll know via other ways. It’s from the community where the biggest gap is. I have something pending Roblox legal before publishing, reach is good

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/12/2024

And I am thankful for that, even if Mastodon didn't work out My displeasure is at the wider community rather than specific people, I know why I held out for so long (be with the community), the longer people keep there, the more annoying it is These days, I'd rather not know than be in a Nazi bar

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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

I don’t want to visit the Nazi bar that is Twitter, I had hoped the recent changes was enough to get people to move more permanently But no, it’s just slightly better than last time. It’s deeply frustrating that Roblox as a community is very hard to move platforms with any scale and I don’t like it

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 14/12/2024

It’s understandable I think a lot of my frustration is that I’ve been trying to get off Twitter since Elon bought it, made it clear that I was not there to actively engage (hence the locked posts) and be present in better places

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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 · 03/12/2024

It's also a great place if you don't shill things, get mad when it doesn't work, complain elsewhere how shit it is, and then just continue shilling on that other platform Then come back and keep complaining how bad it is here.

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 26/11/2024

April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September. Alphabetised.

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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 · 20/11/2024

Statistical Highlighter of Information Transformer computer?

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 11/11/2024

I love using Cloudflare pages for this sort of thing. Allows for multiple domains which is awesome for me

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Dave Brown @rail.works · 02/11/2024

How is it? I actually looked to see how much they’d cost explicitly to jailbreak them

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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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