Timeline of Roblox history/2023

==January 2023==
* January 4 – Roblox updates their selection tool.
* January 5 - Roblox announces that the Roblox App for 32-bit iOS 9 or 10 systems, with iPhone 4s, iPad 2 and iPod Touch (5th generation) below devices would no longer be supported on February 2. Roblox will now require an app that supports 64-bit iOS 9 or later systems, with iPhone 5S or newer, iPad Air or newer, iPad Mini 2 or newer and iPod Touch (6th generation) or newer devices. (later iOS 11)
*January 10 – The Roblox Verified Badge now appears next to usernames in experience chat.
*January 11 – Roblox replaces the Recently Updated Sort in the marketplace with Recently Created.
*January 12 – Roblox introduces the Funky Friday Synchro Shot Nerf Blaster.
*January 14 – Roblox sets an all-time record for the platform with over 8.5 million users in-experience at once.
*January 18 – Roblox announces Collectibles, also known as “Limited 2.0”.
*January 21 – Roblox begins working on Community Events.
==February 2023==
*February 2 - Roblox App for 32-bit iOS 9 systems, with iPhone 4s, iPad 2 and iPod Touch (5th generation) below devices is no longer supported. Support for 64-bit iOS 9 or later is now required for the Roblox App. (later iOS 11)
*February 4 – Roblox Brookhaven becomes only the second game to reach 1 million concurrent players, after Adopt Me!
*February 7
**It is announced that Roblox will ease restrictions on profanity and romantic themes, as well as gambling and alcohol content.
**Roblox announces once again that I previously announced on January 5, due to the date pushing to March 6. Roblox App for iOS 9 or 10 systems (which is now 64-bit only, dropping 32-bit iOS support) would no longer be supported in the same month.
*February 24 – Robux Cards are back in stock for Microsoft Rewards members.
==March 2023==
* March 6 - Roblox deprecates an app that supports iOS 9 or 10 systems. (now 64-bit only, 32-bit iOS deprecated) Roblox App now requires iOS 11 or later. It was previously made the deprecation of Roblox App that supports 32-bit iOS 9 below on February 2.
* March 9 - Multi cursor scripting is implemented.
* March 20 - Roblox announces new generative A.I used to generate textures using Artificial Intelligence on YouTube and later on the website. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/material-generator-beta/2224446
== April 2023 ==
* April 5 - Collectibles are released.
== May 2023 ==
* May 3 
** Roblox deprecates support for 32-bit systems, including 32-bit versions of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. An 64-bit version of Windows 7 or later is now required for Roblox.
** Hyperion (the Byfron anti-tamper) is now included in the live release of Roblox.
== June 2023 ==
* June 6 - The Stevie Standard dynamic head starts being automatically equipped to users not wearing a face or head.
== July 2023 ==
* July 15 - Brookhaven RP surpasses Adopt Me! as the Roblox game with the most visits.Roblox (2023, July 16): Snapshot of Adopt Me!'s Roblox page as of July 16, 2023. (Archived)Roblox (2023, July 16): Snapshot of Brookhaven's Roblox page as of July 16, 2023. (Archived)
* July 17 - All five letter usernames have been taken on Roblox, with the last one being "wclxb" and the last one to be on a new account being "wqjbt".
* July 19 - The Roblox Developer Conference has a data breach leaking 4,000 unique email addresses, names, usernames, dates of birth, phone numbers, Physical and IP addresses and T-shirt sizes.https://www.pcgamer.com/roblox-data-leak-sees-4000-developer-profiles-including-identifying-information-made-public/
* July 25 - An outage takes place in Roblox which led to 0 users online worldwide for the first time since the 2021 Roblox outage, and giving users on PC the error of "Service is Unavailable", although the Microsoft version was fine.https://twitter.com/blox_status/status/1684004050038325249
* July 26 - Roblox announced new default avatars.
* July 26 - Roblox announced dynamic camera support.
* July 27 - Roblox starts releasing Dynamic Heads based on faces, which includes setting the original faces to offsale.https://devforum.roblox.com/t/we’re-updating-heads/2488797
* July 27 - Roblox is released on Meta Quest
== August 2023 ==
* August 4 - Adding and removing tags on the properties panel is now enabled.
* August 14 - A bug in the Outfit Editor temporarily allows more than 50 outfits to be saved. This is fixed later.
* August 17 - Roblox began to allow certain approved 3D UGC creators to upload bundles.
* August 23 
** The Roblox chat now supports emojis such as Shout and Skull.
** David Baszucki was given his own custom avatar on Roblox.
* August 25 - Two Domini, the Dominus Azurelight and Desperationis, released six minutes apart from each other. These were the first Domini to use particle effects, excluding testing and/or prototype Domini. Given to two Make A Wish kids with cancer.
* August 29 - Aerodynamics become available on Roblox Studio.https://devforum.roblox.com/t/introducing-aerodynamic-forces-beta/2569269
== September 2023 ==
* September 1
** Roblox celebrates its seventeenth anniversary since official release back in 2006.
** Native code generation support is now available in Roblox Studio.
* September 3 - Roblox reaches 5 billion registered users at around 6:46:47 PM Eastern Time, with being the 5 billionth user.
* September 28 - Roblox experienced some outages for up to 3 hours. 
== October 2023 ==
* October 10 - Roblox becomes available on the PlayStation 4 and 5.
* October 11 - Roblox released artificial intelligence to assist with creating, growing, and monetizing content.
* October 12 - Many players who were previously terminated but got unbanned seemingly got terminated again. However, their profiles were still accessible, so this was most likely a bug.
* October 21 - Roblox experiences outages and connection issues multiple times throughout the day, with 503 Service Unavailable occurring when visiting the website, and error 529 when joining experiences.https://web.archive.org/web/20231021235943/https://status.roblox.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20231022005044/https://downdetector.com/status/roblox/
* October 22
** Roblox continues to have sporadic 503 outages.
** Blox Fruits reaches over 1 million concurrent players.
* October 25 - Roblox issues a ban wave primarily targeted towards exploiters. 
* October 28 - Synapse Softworks LLC (the company that formerly owned Synapse X, a popular exploit) joined Roblox's team for exploit prevention.https://twitter.com/Bloxy_News/status/1717976176143020195, https://x.synapse.to, https://devforum.roblox.com/t/exploit-prevention-update/2663101
* October 31 - Two accessiblity settings, Reduced Motion and UI transparency, were added to the client settings. These were removed a few days later.
== November 2023 ==
* November 2 - All UGC bundles and body parts that costed less than 75 Robux, including for free, were changed to cost 75 Robux.
* November 15 - The Headless Horseman bundle was unintentionally made free for approximately 25 minutes. Roblox rolled back all purchases of the bundle a few hours later from anyone who had obtained it during this timeframe.
* November 30 - All UGC bundles that costed less than 175 Robux were changed to cost 175 Robux.
== December 2023 ==
* On an unknown date, Roblox adds a Christmas theme to the Robux page. However, only some users can view it as of December 16. 
* December 21 - A number of notable UGC creators that had been incorrectly terminated for copyrighted content, despite sending out copyright removal requests via the remediation program, have their terminations removed. This includes , , , , and . https://twitter.com/MaximumADHD/status/1738008360254124405 
* December 26 - Roblox added a popup of adding a favourite suggestion if they played long enough of an experience that they never played before.
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