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2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934101 "Roblox executive says children making money on the platform is 'a gift'"
>Arguing that it's a "gift" when they're taking a 75% cut is just offensive.
2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812765 "Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers"
>who was hiding the incident for 2 years?
2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754 "Problems at Roblox"
>It is as dangerous as any dark corner of the Internet, except that it appears child-friendly to parents.
2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034 "Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers"
>to withdraw it, they need to have raked in roughly $1,000 worth of Robux [...] That $1,000 worth of Robux becomes $350 when you go to extract it
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Personally I recommend disabling chat and creating on some other platform (I'm going to try Godot first).
FWIW Roblox open-sourced their "Luau" scripting language and there is even VS Code support. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37962711
