New ROBLOX Security Measures

Recently ROBLOX introduced an update to increase the protection of each ROBLOX game. This update includes the following security measures:

• All games that do not have Filtering Enabled toggled shall have an age requirement of 13 to join.

• Any place where text may be inputted in your game will now be required to have Text Filtering applied to it. Any game that does not have this feature will be put under review until it is added, however, it will not be content deleted, and no moderation action will be taken against the place owner's account.

What does this mean for us as developers?

As many of you know, a large portion of ROBLOX's community is under 13. In order to ensure your game is accessible by the entire community, you will have to make it within compliance of these two updates. While doing so, you may find these two articles helpful:

• FilteringEnabled Explained

• Text Filtering

FilteringEnabled?

FilteringEnabled(FE) bars any client-to-server communication, and vice versa. FE is essential to game development now on ROBLOX. Without it, your game is prone to exploitation as well as the limitations listed above. In order to make your game compatible with FE, you will need to get used to using Remotes.

RemoteEvents and RemoteFunctions act as "windows" for client-to-server communication. Replicating anything from the client to the server(and vice versa) will require you to take advantage of these objects.

For more info, visit this article.

Happy Developing!