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The Great Roblox Outage happened 5 years ago.
The outage lasted from October 28th to October 31st (2021), totaling more than 3 entire days. Before the outage begun, users were encountering issues on the platform before servers crashed. Afterwards, the remaining servers and website either crashed or became dysfunctional. Hours later, Roblox displayed the infamous image stating "We're making things more awesome. Be back soon." -- they were not going to be back soon.
Roblox posted nearly 70 hours after the issue begun that regions were gradually being brought back online, and after nearly 73 hours, Roblox posted that Roblox is finally back online. The outage marked the last time Roblox had 0 players, with the previous instance of 0 CCU happening in 2016.
While users have speculated that the in-game Chipotle promotion for free burritos running at the time had led to the servers being overloaded and shutting down, Roblox dismissed that rumor. The official cause of the outage was linked to alterations in Roblox's infrastructure, specifically with a streaming feature in the Consul Cluster & BoltDB freelist page manangement.
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Some new APIs coming soon to Color3:
Color3:GetLuminance() -> number
Color3:GetContrastingColor(...: Color3) -> Color3
Color3:GetContrastRatio(other: Color3) -> number
FFlagColor3ContrastMethods
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i think we are missing the part where they are also REMOVING all of our existing tools to customize chat, and taking away our ability to even make a custom chat ui at all or even see what is said in chat
im so sick of this, the chat gets ruined even more every 3 months at this point, all in the name of safety but it's not doing anything. I'm sorry to be the one to say it, but it's not roblox's job to be babysitting your kids.
You almost always have to actively go out of your way to put yourself in harms way on this platform, sure there are some very small amount of bad apples that managed to do it in regular games, but there is almost nothing roblox can actually do to *prevent* that, no amount of chat updates is going to fix it unless you straight up remove it.
All roblox had to do was improve support and moderation, instead they keep shooting themselves in the foot with updates that sound good on paper but never actually work in practice
We shouldn't be ruining the experience for everyone else because an extremely small subset (<0.0000001%) of users are bad actors, they are going to find a way no matter what obstacles are in front of them
Over the next year, Roblox will be adding new tools that allow game creators to customize text chat, including...
🙂 Emoji menu
🗣️ Voice typing
👤 Avatars in chat
🎨 Change name colors
🗨️ Typing indicators
+ more
Read more on important updates to TextChatService: devforum.roblox.com/t/494843…
🚨 CRITICAL: GitLab flaw (CVSS 10.0) affects 12 years of releases.
CVE-2026-110264 could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on self-managed servers.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/cr…
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
What a wonderful day for web development so far
Replying to @TYNSOUP
Music is art. Coding is art. Computer programming is art. I'm so fed up of gen AI.
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Geometry Dash update 2.209 is out now on Steam/iOS/Android!
• Platformer Saving
• Custom Keybinds
• Death Tracking
• Death Markers
• Editor Sounds and Packs
• Import/Export Editor Levels
• Auto-Save and Auto-Backup levels
• Custom Platformer Controls
• Start Position Switcher
• Group ID Names
• Improved Editor UI and Tools
• Improved SFX Browser
• Replay Daily, Weekly, and Event Levels
• Improved Following and Friends
• In-Game Notification system
• Emotes :D
• Improved messaging
• News tab
• Improved Options and navigation
• Bug fixes, tweaks and more!
































