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The post in question had read, “Because of the population, the Roblox servers will shut down on March 22, 2020. It was a fun time, but we make less money now and we can’t hold the servers. We don’t...
Is Roblox Getting Deleted?
The gaming platform Roblox is displayed on a tablet, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 in New York. The massive online video game platform Roblox said it was back online after suffering a multiday outage.
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.