Community

A Community (formerly Group) is a feature on Roblox. Added on July 30, 2009, players can create or join Communities that feature their interests, and all Communities can have virtually an infinite amount of members. All players on Roblox can join up to 100 Communities. Anyone can create a Community, but creating a Community costs 100 Robux. It used to be that only Builders Club (later Premium) members could create Communities. 
Communities can be set public or private. If private, the player's join request will be considered as "pending" until a Community admin approves or declines their request. If public, the player can join the Community without manual approval.
Previously players were given a certain limit on how many Communities they were able to join based on their membership. Before the removal of Builders Club, Non-Builders Club and Non-Premium members were permitted to join up to five Groups at one time. Classic Builders Club members were allowed to join/own up to 10 Groups at one time, Turbo Builders Club members were given the privilege to own or be in up to 20 Groups at one time, and members with Outrageous Builders Club or Roblox Premium had the privilege to join or own 100 Groups.
== History ==
On unknown date, becomes a person who tested groups.
On September 28, 2009, the ability to add personal servers to groups was implemented. Before 2011, it was called "group building" being that it was previously only available to groups. Despite these being group-owned, it was only possible for the group owner to make changes to the place.
On February 3, 2011, the ability for users to advertise their group was implemented.
On May 28, 2015, the ability to make non-personal server group games was implemented. With this update, it was made possible for multiple people to collaborate in one place, as well as game revenue now being transferred to group funds.
===Revamp===
On December 13, 2018, a Group revamp was announced privately, which changed the Group UI but did not introduce new features. The revamp was only available for members inside of the Roblox Beta Program.
The new Group UI doesn't have the clans feature and was revealed in the initial post that clans are being removed.
In Early 2019, the "Games" tab was removed and all games were placed under the "About" tab.
On January 23, 2019, at 8:00 PM EST, the new Group UI went live for all users.
Around December 17, 2019, the maximum number of groups for all users to join was raised to 100 groups. The creation of groups was also changed to allow all users to create groups, regardless if they are Premium members or not.
On January 6, 2022, Roblox group owners were given the ability to change the names of groups at the cost of 100 Robux.
In preparation for rebrand of groups to communities, the ability to post on group walls is disabled for <13 users.
==Creating a Community==
To create a Community, players must go to "My Roblox" and click on the button labelled Communities. On the left side of the screen, the list of communities that a player is currently in is listed, along with a button above the list titled "Create New". Players may then give their Community a name, add Community info and an icon, and pay 100 Robux for their Community to be created.
Community names, icons and info may be changed later. (100 Robux fee for changing the Community name)
Once the Community name is changed, the following things will happen:
* The Community name can't be changed again for 90 days.
* Community members will be notified of the change of the Community name.
* The Community will not be searchable under the previous name.
==Community Discovery==
On Roblox, users can find new Communities either by going to the Top Communities page or by Searching Communities.
===Top Communities ===
Top Communities is the default homepage of Communities; here users can find Communities their friends are in or Experience Studios, Military, Roleplaying, and Fan Communities. Here users can also see the top six Communities in these categories.
===Community Search===
Here users can search for any Community; users can get here either from the global search bar on the Roblox topbar or via the Community discovery page. Users can search any term as long as it abides by the rules of Roblox. If an inappropriate term is entered "Search term not appropriate for Roblox." will appear.
==Community Leaderboard==
On Roblox, the size of a Community is determined by the number of members it has. As of January 03, 2025, these are the ten largest Communities.
Rank	Name	Members 	Owner
1 	 	27,100,000	
2 	 	25,500,000	
3 	 	22,100,000	
4 	 	21,600,000	
5 	 	16,100,000	
6 	 	13,700,000	
7 	 	13,700,000	
8 	 	13,600,000	
9 	 	12,600,000	
10 	 	11,800,000	
==Features==
There are many features provided for Communities on Roblox. A maximum of 18 ranks can be set, along with certain allowed privileges and the amount of power a rank may have over another. If a rank is given enough power to do so, members may force (kick, formerly exile until the update to Communities) a member to leave a Community, add clothes, models, meshes, and decals for sale to the Community store, have a Community wall, and add allies and enemies. They may also oversee every action in a Community in the Audit Log.
Community funds may be distributed among Community members and the Community's owner.
Communities may also be set to require entry approval. When set, a Community admin may approve the player for entry to the Community. On the applicant's screen, this will show as "join pending".
=== Community Shouts ===
Light-Theme-Guilded-Reminder.png|The group shout and the Guilded reminder if a group is not linked in light theme.
Dark-Theme-Guilded-Reminder.png|The group shout and the Guilded reminder if a group is not linked in dark theme.
Users may create a Community shout on Roblox, or link an announcement channel via Guilded to the Community. All users viewing the Community page will see Community shouts and Community announcements including under thirteen users. Unlike most text fields on the Roblox website, once an announcement is sent text will be filtered and images will go through the moderation process.
=== Discontinued Features ===
Clans could have been created for 500 Robux, and group admins could have invited a member to join the clan, however, they got removed.
== Criticism==
Community names, which were locked once created, have also been criticized among the community for the lack of ability to rename Communities. However, on January 6, 2022, the feature to rename Communities was eventually released into Roblox.
The community has criticized Communities for being botted to appear to have a larger fanbase than what they have.
Communities have been subject to being "disposable" for holding bait-and-switch games. Community funds are usually distributed through many fake accounts until being finally distributed to the desired user, with the Community being discarded as a result.
==See also==
*Configure Community
==References==
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