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There is no solid evidence that this tweet existed and Roblox Corporation has made no official statement that we're aware of. The lure of a free burrito may actually be the true culprit.
The site is specifically made so you can create fake news articles and share them on the internet. This post included the following text as the reason for why Roblox was going to shut down: "Because of the population, the Roblox servers will shut down on March 22, 2020.
The official Roblox twitter account has updated us with a tweet confirming that Roblox is in fact not shutting down. They also added that fans and users should not pay attention to such false rumors which have very little details and should continue to believe news directly from the source itself.
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ROBLOX is now online again after over 48 hours of being offline.
The Roblox investigation team was said to be aware of the situation which affected millions of players around the world.
Roblox is growing day by day ever since it was founded in 2004 and officially launched in 2006. When more improvements were added, it became bigger and better. In 2012, Roblox came to mobile via iOS and then expanded to even Android, Xbox One and VR. Advertisement.
The impressive thing is that in early 2020, Roblox was worth $4 billion. It has grown to 150 million monthly users especially due to the pandemic and everyone being home playing games. Since Roblox lets you create games, there’s even more opportunity to earn money from it.
The answer is no, Roblox is not shutting down. In fact, the official twitter account has cleared up this rumor by tweeting that it is a hoax. This rumor seems to crop up every year or so.
With its consistent success, it’s pretty much impossible that Roblox is shutting down in 2021. With the hardcore fan base it is boasting of (who will be devastated if Roblox shuts down) it’s highly unlikely that such a successful platform will go offline any time soon.
Roblox experienced a brief outage on July 20, 2021, and users have reacted on the social media platform, confirming the issue with others and complaining. Several down detectors reported that Roblox was down on July 20, 2021. The reports suggest that the downtime began around 06:00 AM IST and lasted for an hour.
According to Downdetector, about 45% of reports were related to server connection issues 38% of reports were related to issues with the website and about 17% were related to log-in. Currently, the issue seems to be resolved and Roblox servers are back up. Usually, there are notices regarding when will Roblox shut down by the platform itself, but sudden outages might be caused by glitches, errors or updates to the server. There are no comments by the platform yet on the brief outage that was experienced on July 20, 2021. Usually, when Roblox is down, there are excessive lag issues, players are not able to join any game, or games might take more time to load than usual. Any purchases made from the Roblox stores will also be reflected late.
Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy. During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.
On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor being unable to load, huge chat issues, and performance in experiences being very slow. Later, many players started to get kicked off the game. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
The outage lasted for 3 days, and 45 minutes, or just under 73 hours, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.
1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join experiences. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
All Roblox games have zero players and mobile players aren't able to register or sign in.
Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is closed "for maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
I estimate Roblox will be significantly less popular (3/4 to even 1/2 of players) in 5 years max. Past that point it will just go further and further down until they either pull the plug or people stop playing it outright.
Roblox is a game creation platform/game engine that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of different types of games created by other users.
Roblox will most likely never shutdown, it's still got its 3 billion players or so, if it does out of nowhere then idk what else to say besides just moving on with your life.