Dave Brown

Dave Brown

@rail.works

Sometimes Roblox dev, sometimes something else. Opinions are my own, interaction is not endorsement. Roblox link shortner: http://shortblox.link

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Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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.comSave the Date: RDC25Hey 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? ...
Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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*

Dave Brown
@rail.works

(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)

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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.

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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.

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

Maybe no one will ever use it, but I'm okay with that. I've some control over the things I've said over the years Because that's what The Archive is all about, long term storage of what I've said and done. Maybe I'll write more, maybe it'll be a newsroom, I'm not sure.

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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

Dave Brown
@rail.works

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)

Dave Brown
@rail.works

As a result, it becomes easy to exist on your own small boat At least without remaining on a specific big platform that no one seems to want to actually leave even when things get explicitly worse and the message can be beyond clear. I couldn't've made my report w/o being on Twitter and that's sad

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