Out soon

Next time!

Possibly but necessary. Their scale is too large

Is that a discord you’re in?

This only came up with my 9yo over playing 99 Nights with randos bc jumping to communicate was hard. It was a reasonable request but still said no

No. Adults are trickier but with minors my preference is ways where such information is entirely anonymized

For sure, works both ways

My suspicion is kids will easily dodge it but waiting to see

I do not blame people for hating Roblox. I hear you. That NYT interview was a disaster. I agree. I also think it's important to expect more from a platform that will, regardless of all that, will still have hundreds of millions of young players. I'm here to help explain how the platform is changing.

My oldest asked about Roblox was during peak COVID and she met a girl down the street and couldn't play indoors. That was her pitch to me and I agreed. It was good. They became friends IRL. We heavily monitored its use. They're tossing away all that potential over wanting to put a dating app inside.

Precisely. Do not give a public interview unless you have well-rehearsed answers about what's going on with your platform

If you're being charitable, anything he says is going to be legally actionable. But he also says the worst possible version of a response

I'm about to publish a post that posits some of the changes coming to the way Roblox handles chat is really good! [throws up hands] It's evidence of a deeply flawed platform getting better. Too little, too late, yeah yeah — but tons of kids are there, it getting better is good, regardless.

Prediction markets in Roblox? What the *fuck* are you talking about?

I have a lot of thoughts about this, as someone who does let their kids play Roblox and spends a lot of time thinking about the platform, about using @crossplayblog.bsky.social to interrogate what it's doing and ways it can get better, and all this interview does is validate people's worst fears.

Whoa this sounds great