Timeline of Roblox history/2020

January 2020

• January 6 – Galactic Speedway Creator Challenge event ends.
• January 7 – UIGradient is released from testing.
• January 10 – Web endpoints relating to groups are replaced.
• January 11
  • Roblox begins searching for games to take part in the Egg Hunt 2020 event.
  • Future is Bright: Phase 2.5 is released.
  • Roblox releases an official statement regarding the recent controversy surrounding Roblox Death Sound.
• January 13 – The avatar editor on mobile devices is overhauled.
• January 15 – Roblox officially confirms on a Twitter post that the rumors of Roblox shutting down is a hoax and how they are not shutting down.
• January 17 – "Luau" Type Checking is released into beta.
• January 21 – Web endpoints relating to private messages are replaced.
• January 22 – Quick Open modal is implemented into Roblox Studio to help users and developers search through all instances in their place.
• January 23 
  • RDC 2020 is announced to take place in July 2020 and will take place in a larger venue than previous years.
  • The player list receives an overhaul; it is now an improved design based on the version that was used temporarily on December 11, 2019. It was originally announced on the Developer Forum on January 17, 2020. It is set in the same font as used in the website, and can be hidden by simply clicking the player's name in the top right corner; however, it cannot be expanded. The menu that is displayed when clicking on a player's name is also overhauled as the buttons have been enlarged to show icons as well as a picture of the player's avatar.
• January 27 – The Configure Group page is released for all users. Also, groups can now contain up to 40 roles.
• January 28 – Web endpoints relating to friends are replaced.
• January 29
  • Fast & Furious: Spy Racers event starts
  • The search bar becomes rounder and gets recolored to white with the outline scrapped for good.
• January 30 – The sidebar icons on the website are changed.

February 2020

• February 3
  • LoadLibrary is finally removed after its removal was postponed.
  • A minor issue regarding image moderation is announced and resolved within the same day.
• February 13 – Changes are made to "sleeping" parts.
• February 14 – Roblox opens intern applications for the summer of 2020.
• February 19
  • Premium Payouts are implemented as another way for developers to earn revenue.
  • The 7th Annual Bloxys are announced, with six initial categories to vote for.
• February 20 – Roblox begins a new "Global Compliance System" to follow the laws and regulations of certain countries, starting with China.
• February 26 – Roblox raises $150 million after a recent funding initiative by Andreessen Horowitz, allowing the company to become valued at $4 billion.
• February 28 – The Developer Forum "Member" and "New Member" trust levels are changed to "Regular" and "Member".
• February 29
  • Roblox begins testing a new feature live. The feature is called Roblox Video Streaming and there is a game dedicated to testing it.
  • MeepCity was hacked by Harkinian and tubers93^{⁠[citation needed]}. The game teleported players to a darker version of the game, where users could hit Alexnewtron with a bat. Millions of MeepCity's in-game currency were also distributed to users. The game also reaches 5 billion visits, becoming the first Roblox game to do so. ^{⁠[citation needed]}

March 2020

• March 1 – Jailbreak and Roblox's Got Talent suffer from a service issue, causing the games to default back into the default Baseplate. The games were quickly restored with no issues.
• March 7-12 – Players experienced issues joining games. This caused the front page to become featured with random games and inaccurate player counts. The issue was resolved an hour later.
• March 13 – The in-game topbar UI displaying the player list and other supplementary information is rehauled to better match the new player list design released earlier in the year.
• March 16 – Unified Game Permissions are released from beta.
• March 19 – Roblox clarifies how code is flagged for review.
• March 20 – 7th Annual Bloxy Awards game opens, marking the beginning of the event.
• March 21
  • 7th Annual Bloxys live stream begins in-game at 12:00 PM PST.
  • Roblox experiences issues with MarketplaceService and other APIs.
• March 26 – At 3:36 PM EST, the RDC 2020 event is announced to become fully digital, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• March 29 – The Configure button on badge pages was somehow removed for users who can configure it. It was added back the following day.
• March 31
  • Premium Payouts are tripled.
  • A followup to Roblox's "Code Safety Review" process is posted.
  • Support for the Outlines feature is fully removed, as the majority of games no longer use it.

April 2020

• April 1
  • Roblox releases the Robox hat as part of their April Fools prank from the previous year.
  • Roblox reveals the first two eggs for the Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. event on their Twitter account after users successfully reached the goals in less than a day.
  • A Lua Dragger is released in the "Beta testing" phase.
• April 2 – All users, regardless if they are a Premium member or not, are now given a 30% marketplace fee on sold gamepasses and developer products.
• April 3 – Roblox releases a "Play Together" sort meant to "bring friends, families, schools, etc. together in digital reality and to provide a way for everyone to stay connected during these difficult times.". This was later changed to "Play Together (10 Robux VIP)" to popularize cheap VIP servers. However, this sprouted confusion temporarily until it was changed to "Play Together (10 Robux VIP Servers)".
• April 4 - Mad City becomes the 13th game to reach one billion visits.
• April 5 – Adopt Me! surpasses MeepCity as the game with the most place visits.
• April 7 – Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. officially begins.
• April 11
  • Adopt Me! becomes the first game to reach over a million concurrent players.  At its peak, it reached 1,615,085 concurrent players. Due to the player record, the Roblox website briefly experienced issues.
  • A group of hackers, supposedly including tubers93, a hacker who had previously hacked MeepCity in February of the same year, temporarily open a voice chat game using a vulnerability in Windows 10, iOS, and Android clients.^{⁠[citation needed]}
• Mid-April – The UI redesign announced in March 2020 is launched via A/B testing.
• April 15
  • Piggy becomes the 14th game to reach one billion visits, less than three months after its release.
  • Weight Lifting Simulator 3 gets content deleted from Roblox. With over 980 million visits, it is the most-visited game to be deleted.
• April 16 – Roblox announces the One World: Together At Home Virtual Concert, but doesn't officially begin until a day later, with the opening of the official hangout.
• April 17 – A game sort for the One World: Together At Home event is added to the Games page.
• April 18
  • Hide and Seek Extreme becomes the 15th game to reach one billion visits.
  • Adopt Me! becomes the first game to surpass 6 billion visits.
• April 21 – Game developers can now use the "Migrate to Latest Update" feature to smoothly roll out new updates.
• April 22
  • Welcome to Bloxburg becomes the first paid game to reach two billion visits.
  • Roblox adds the ability to migrate users to a recently updated server. 
• April 24
  • Epic Minigames becomes the 16th game to reach one billion visits.
  • Roblox begins a ban wave action against exploiters who used free exploits and a specific popular paid exploit (Synapse X). Innocent accounts were somehow caught in the action and were falsely terminated, although most to all innocent users got unbanned the next day.
• April 28
  • The Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. event ends.
  • A bug concerning StarterGear and Backpack replication is now fixed.
• April 29 – The page for uploading advertisements gets updated with a new look.
• April 30 – The COVID-19 Relief event begins.

May 2020

• May 4 – A major security breach occurs where an unknown user gains access to the Roblox admin panel from a bribe, allowing them to theoretically access all user data; despite this, the user only gained access to the info of 10 users, most notably Linkmon99.
• May 6
  • The "SmoothingAngle" property is added to PartOperation.
  • ScrollingFrame gets updated with a new layout, and has also been adjusted to scroll smoother and now allows for trackpad scrolling.
• May 10 – A new Game Sort was added to the games page on Roblox for games that are popular among Roblox Premium players.
• May 11
  • Piggy reaches 2 billion visits in under a month of it reaching 1 billion visits.
  • Adopt Me! becomes the first game to reach 7 billion visits.
• May 13 – A new In-Game Topbar is released to all users.