ROBLOX's New Layout

When I checked ROBLOX this day on school I noticed something strange. ROBLOX had a new design, and loading it in Internet Explorer 9 took me ages! Luckily when I came back home, and I went on Google Chrome, it worked a lot better. So let's speak about the new design in this article!

The homepage

If we look at the homepage when logged out, you will see that the content hasn't actually changed. I am not sure if ROBLOX is going to change the content on the homepage, but I don't really mind about it. the most important thing changed on the homepage is the menu and the log-in box, which has changed layout both.

My ROBLOX

As far as I can see, nothing really changed to My ROBLOX apart from the menu and the location of the advertisements, which are now located under the menu.

Something that I noticed was that this is still the 3.0 design, and not an all new 4.0 design, although I think a lot of things changed since the very first version of the 3.0 design and the 3.0 design as it is now.

I am not sure if you can put this as a part of the new design, or it's just the fact that ROBLOX wants to reintroduce it, but you can now view the sets of a user on his or her profile. If I'm right this was actually enabled before the new menu already.

I haven't seen any other changes on the My ROBLOX tab yet!

People

Not a lot of changes on this tab, although after searching really well I found this "Tips" button thingy. It gives a blue pop-up which you can't really read yet, due to some stupid CSS coding, After some smart copy paste work I got this out of it:

Tips Exact Phrase: "red brick"

Find ALL Terms: red and brick =OR= red + brick

Find ANY Term: red or brick =OR= red | brick

Wildcard Suffix: tel* (Finds teleport, telamon, telephone, etc.)

Terms Near each other: red near brick =OR= red ~ brick

Excluding Terms: red and not brick =OR= red - brick

Grouping operations: brick and (red or blue) =OR= brick + (red | blue)

Combinations: "red brick" and not (tele* or tower) =OR= "red brick" - (tele* | tower)

Wildcard Prefix is NOT supported: *port will not find teleport, airport, etc.

It sounds like nonsense to me! Roblox, you will have to explain me that, later!

Help

I'm not sure if the help page changed, because I never really took a look at that page before.

Over all

In the overall changes, it seems that the only thing really changed is the header, with the menu, the ads and when logged in the statistics, with the number of your robux, tix, friend requests, and unopened personal Messages. Also has the background changed to white instead of the blue picture or black picture.

Conclusion

I don't think you can say that this is a bad design. Actually I pretty much like it! Apart from the white background, it's too boring, and too bright. I gues BrightEyes designed it ;) Anyway, it's up to you if you like it or not, but if you ask me, it's a good design!

Virtual fame

This text was written for my english writing day this spring. I just got it back from my teacher, and decided to share it with you.


What is a famous person? I define a famous person as a guy or girl that a lot of people know about, possibly a person with a lot of influence. From now on, I will refer to a famous person as a he, because I am the only famous person you will read about in this text. I don't care about other famous people, nor do I know anything about them.


When my friends in real life see what I type on the internet, they often call me arrogant. Famous people can be arrogant, at least I can be at times. What makes me so famous? First of all a lot of people know about me. In fact over 500,000 people have seen my name. Not my real name, my virtual name. These people know me on a game, the online game ROBLOX. You might be thinking: "That's not a lot of people." or "It's only a game." Well let me tell you something. Wherever I go on that game, people stalk me. People constantly send me messages saying: "Tonitoni, are are my idol." or "Please Toni! Be my friend." People actually look up to me, and hope to become like me one day,

What did I do to earn so much recognition? I created one of the most muccesful war groups on ROBLOX. At one point this group, named The Robloxian Army had as much as 35,000 members. Thirty five thousand people ready to do whatever I told them. There were thousands of people looking up to me as their leader and idol. For over a year I worked on this group, making it known by anyone important in the world of ROBLOX. I was hated, hated by my enemies. I was hated because I was more famous than them. Because I had done something they would never accomplish. I even had bodyguards with me, trained elite soldiers, ready to die for me if necessary.

There have been countless attempts to assasinate me. Not because it would hurt my virtual character, or me sitting in front of the computer. They tried to assasinate me so that they could humiliate me. Humiliate me in front of the entire clan world. I have tried to avoid humiliation, as keeping my image of undefeated and powerfull was vital to my success.

The Robloxian Army (TRA for short) is no longer lead by me. I passed it on months ago, although I am still 2nd in command. Partly because administrating a group of 35,000 people takes a lot of time. I had no manager or secretary most of the time, so administrating everything drained my energy. In fact, I spent so much time on the group that my real life situation was getting worse. My grades were dropping and I was sitting up to 4 AM reading and anwering private messages from my members. All this time spent on the computer was making my health worse. I tried hiering a secretary, but she quit just weeks in. She could not handle the pressure I had been subject to for over a year. The other secretary I hired was too lazy, so I fired him after a week. Like for any other famous person, the career has to end one day. I decided to end mine before all my energy was drained from me. After all, real life is more important than what happens in a game, no matter how famous you are.

I was semi-famous before my clan became so popular. Making games was my passion for almost a year, although I never really became famous for my games. They were mostly redone ideas, or improvments of allready existing concepts. In total my games managed to rack up around half a million visits, which is not bad by any standards. Looking back, I am not very proud of them, they were mediocre at best.

After quitting as the leader of TRA, I have started spening much of my time on social medias like twitter nad youtube. My youtube videoes have been seen over 45.000 times in total, although I am not very happy with most of them either. I guess you could call me a perfectionist, as I am never really satisfied with my work. There are allways things I think I can do better.

If you are still in doubt of my fame, let me refer to some of my accomplishments over the past two years. My games have been played over 1,490,000 times in total, my ROBLOX profile has been seen over 1,200,000 times, I am ranked as 99/99 in the ROBLOX level calculator, I am the most famous ROBLOX player from norway. possibly even Scandinavia. Klout, an online influence measurment site ranks me as 42/100,  just by calculating my influence on social medias outside of ROBLOX. I am the ROBLOX leader with the most youtube videoes dedicated to him in the world, over twelve thousand people have sent me a friend request, and thousands of people look up to me. When I look at what I have accomplished in less than two years, who knows what I wil accomplish in the future?

Being famous brings both good and bad things. On one hand you become popular, rich and important. On the other hand you lose much of the free time that could be spent on other things like family and friends. In my opinion it all comes down to finding the right balance. I don't think the countless hours spent on ROBLOX were wasted. The fame and recognition I got on that game, will probably never be replicated in the real world. I guess you could call it, a once in a lifetime experience.

Team Domino changes name to Team Jessie J.

Phone picture editor... (I need a graphics designer!)

Team Domino, a group that was just about to get accepted by the clan community has screwed it up again. The group description states that the group has changed name to Team Jessie J. Why their leader pieperson50 has done this, is still unknown, but speculations are sirculationg on the C&G forum. One of the reasons for the recent change, might be because pieperson50 likes the british artist Jessie J. This means that the group, which is allready considered pieperson50's fan group by some, will lose its status as a war clan.

The change of name also confirmes what many allready have said: "Pieperson50 only wants money, and does not care for his members." Pieperson50 has also changed the name of one of his places to "Team Jessie J HQ" It is expected that Team Jessie J will loose many members, if the group does not go back to being a war group. The name change has raised many questions, but the most important one would have to be: Will Team Jessie J keep their their current name? or is this just a prank played by pieperson50?

WIJ allies with UAF

Talks have been going on between the WIJ high command and UAF's leader bbal. This has lead to the forging of a new alliance between WIJ and UAF. Both clans stated that the alliance will benefit them both, which seems to be the case so far. Many WIJ have joined UAF and vise versa, making bonds even stronger between the two groups. WIJ has also launched a new program where officers are allowed to bring squads of around 4 people to defend allied bases. This will hopefully boost activity in WIJ, and provide greater revenue to our allies. So far the alliance stands strong, but only time will tell if it will last or not.

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