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  1. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  2.  
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  4.  
  5.  
  6. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  7.  
  8. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  9.  
  10. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  11.  
  12. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  13.  
  14.  
  15. Contents
  16. 1 Timeline
  17. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  18. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  19. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  20. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  21. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  22. 2 Aftermath
  23. 3 Criticism and rumors
  24. 4 References
  25. Timeline
  26.  
  27. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  28.  
  29.  
  30. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  31.  
  32. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  33.  
  34. October 27, 2021
  35. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  36. Last_moments_of_roblox
  37. Last moments of roblox
  38.  
  39. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  40.  
  41. October 28, 2021
  42. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  43. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  44. Hour 1
  45. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  46. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  47. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  48. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  49. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  50. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  51. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  52. Hour 3
  53. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  54. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  55. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  56. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  57. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  58. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  59. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  60. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  61. October 29, 2021
  62. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  63. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  64. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  65. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  66. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  67. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  68. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  69. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  70. October 30, 2021
  71. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  72. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  73. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  74. October 31, 2021
  75. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  76. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  77. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  78. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  79. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  80. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  81. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  82. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  83. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  84. Hour 72 –
  85. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  86. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  87. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  88. Aftermath
  89. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  90.  
  91.  
  92. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  93.  
  94. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  95.  
  96. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  97.  
  98. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  99.  
  100. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  101.  
  102. Criticism and rumors
  103. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  104.  
  105. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  106.  
  107. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  108.  
  109. References
  110. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  111. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  112. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  113. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  114. http://web.archive.org/web/20221010222305/https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
  115. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  116. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
  117. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630/5
  118. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  119. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
  120. http://web.archive.org/web/20220915082112/https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
  121. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  122. Reddit.⚠️❕FAKE NEWS❕⚠️ (if u see this it is fake) : roblox (reddit.com)
  123. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
  124. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xSAwmMAPU
  125. Others like you also viewed
  126. 2012 April Fools incident
  127. Roblox Wiki
  128. Ban
  129. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  130. 2014 like-botting incident
  131. 2014 Twitch incident
  132. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  133. Error
  134. Robux
  135. 2019 Roblox security breach
  136. 2014 RoblEX economy crash
  137. List of controversial users
  138.  
  139.  
  140. Categories
  141. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
  142.  
  143. Others like you also viewed
  144. 2012 April Fools incident
  145. Roblox Wiki
  146. Ban
  147. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  148. 2014 like-botting incident
  149. 2014 Twitch incident
  150. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  151. Error
  152. Robux
  153.  
  154.  
  155. Popular Pages
  156. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  157. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  158. Sponsored By Line Games
  159.  
  160. Robux
  161.  
  162. Fragment Games./Rainbow Friends
  163.  
  164. Hexagon Development Community/Evade
  165.  
  166. Gomu/Anime Adventures
  167.  
  168.  
  169. ht tps: //ro blox. fandom.c om / wiki/2021_Roblox_outage
  170.  
  171. I have to separate the link so it would be able to be pasted. That is where I got this from. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  172.  
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  
  176. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  177.  
  178. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  179.  
  180. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  181.  
  182. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  183.  
  184.  
  185. Contents
  186. 1 Timeline
  187. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  188. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  189. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  190. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  191. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  192. 2 Aftermath
  193. 3 Criticism and rumors
  194. 4 References
  195. Timeline
  196.  
  197. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  198.  
  199.  
  200. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  201.  
  202. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  203.  
  204. October 27, 2021
  205. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  206. Last_moments_of_roblox
  207. Last moments of roblox
  208.  
  209. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  210.  
  211. October 28, 2021
  212. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  213. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  214. Hour 1
  215. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  216. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  217. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  218. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  219. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  220. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  221. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  222. Hour 3
  223. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  224. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  225. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  226. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  227. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  228. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  229. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  230. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  231. October 29, 2021
  232. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  233. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  234. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  235. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  236. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  237. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  238. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  239. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  240. October 30, 2021
  241. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  242. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  243. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  244. October 31, 2021
  245. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  246. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  247. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  248. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  249. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  250. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  251. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  252. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  253. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  254. Hour 72 –
  255. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  256. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  257. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  258. Aftermath
  259. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  260.  
  261.  
  262. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  263.  
  264. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  265.  
  266. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  267.  
  268. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  269.  
  270. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  271.  
  272. Criticism and rumors
  273. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  274.  
  275. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  276.  
  277. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  278.  
  279. References
  280. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  281. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  282. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  283. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  284. http://web.archive.org/web/20221010222305/https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
  285. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  286. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
  287. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630/5
  288. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  289. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
  290. http://web.archive.org/web/20220915082112/https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
  291. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  292. Reddit.⚠️❕FAKE NEWS❕⚠️ (if u see this it is fake) : roblox (reddit.com)
  293. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
  294. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xSAwmMAPU
  295. Others like you also viewed
  296. 2012 April Fools incident
  297. Roblox Wiki
  298. Ban
  299. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  300. 2014 like-botting incident
  301. 2014 Twitch incident
  302. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  303. Error
  304. Robux
  305. 2019 Roblox security breach
  306. 2014 RoblEX economy crash
  307. List of controversial users
  308.  
  309.  
  310. Categories
  311. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
  312.  
  313. Others like you also viewed
  314. 2012 April Fools incident
  315. Roblox Wiki
  316. Ban
  317. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  318. 2014 like-botting incident
  319. 2014 Twitch incident
  320. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  321. Error
  322. Robux
  323.  
  324.  
  325. Popular Pages
  326. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  327. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  328. Sponsored By Line Games
  329.  
  330. Robux
  331.  
  332. Fragment Games./Rainbow Friends
  333.  
  334. Hexagon Development Community/Evade
  335.  
  336. Gomu/Anime Adventures
  337.  
  338.  
  339. ht tps: //ro blox. fandom.c om / wiki/2021_Roblox_outage
  340.  
  341. I have to separate the link so it would be able to be pasted. That is where I got this from. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  342.  
  343.  
  344.  
  345.  
  346. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  347.  
  348. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  349.  
  350. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  351.  
  352. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  353.  
  354.  
  355. Contents
  356. 1 Timeline
  357. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  358. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  359. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  360. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  361. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  362. 2 Aftermath
  363. 3 Criticism and rumors
  364. 4 References
  365. Timeline
  366.  
  367. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  368.  
  369.  
  370. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  371.  
  372. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  373.  
  374. October 27, 2021
  375. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  376. Last_moments_of_roblox
  377. Last moments of roblox
  378.  
  379. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  380.  
  381. October 28, 2021
  382. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  383. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  384. Hour 1
  385. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  386. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  387. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  388. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  389. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  390. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  391. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  392. Hour 3
  393. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  394. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  395. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  396. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  397. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  398. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  399. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  400. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  401. October 29, 2021
  402. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  403. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  404. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  405. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  406. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  407. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  408. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  409. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  410. October 30, 2021
  411. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  412. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  413. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  414. October 31, 2021
  415. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  416. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  417. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  418. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  419. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  420. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  421. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  422. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  423. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  424. Hour 72 –
  425. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  426. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  427. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  428. Aftermath
  429. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  430.  
  431.  
  432. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  433.  
  434. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  435.  
  436. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  437.  
  438. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  439.  
  440. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  441.  
  442. Criticism and rumors
  443. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  444.  
  445. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  446.  
  447. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  448.  
  449. References
  450. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  451. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  452. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  453. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  454. http://web.archive.org/web/20221010222305/https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
  455. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  456. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
  457. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630/5
  458. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  459. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
  460. http://web.archive.org/web/20220915082112/https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
  461. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  462. Reddit.⚠️❕FAKE NEWS❕⚠️ (if u see this it is fake) : roblox (reddit.com)
  463. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
  464. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xSAwmMAPU
  465. Others like you also viewed
  466. 2012 April Fools incident
  467. Roblox Wiki
  468. Ban
  469. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  470. 2014 like-botting incident
  471. 2014 Twitch incident
  472. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  473. Error
  474. Robux
  475. 2019 Roblox security breach
  476. 2014 RoblEX economy crash
  477. List of controversial users
  478.  
  479.  
  480. Categories
  481. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
  482.  
  483. Others like you also viewed
  484. 2012 April Fools incident
  485. Roblox Wiki
  486. Ban
  487. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  488. 2014 like-botting incident
  489. 2014 Twitch incident
  490. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  491. Error
  492. Robux
  493.  
  494.  
  495. Popular Pages
  496. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  497. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  498. Sponsored By Line Games
  499.  
  500. Robux
  501.  
  502. Fragment Games./Rainbow Friends
  503.  
  504. Hexagon Development Community/Evade
  505.  
  506. Gomu/Anime Adventures
  507.  
  508.  
  509. ht tps: //ro blox. fandom.c om / wiki/2021_Roblox_outage
  510.  
  511. I have to separate the link so it would be able to be pasted. That is where I got this from. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  512.  
  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  517.  
  518. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  519.  
  520. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  521.  
  522. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  523.  
  524.  
  525. Contents
  526. 1 Timeline
  527. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  528. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  529. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  530. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  531. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  532. 2 Aftermath
  533. 3 Criticism and rumors
  534. 4 References
  535. Timeline
  536.  
  537. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  538.  
  539.  
  540. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  541.  
  542. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  543.  
  544. October 27, 2021
  545. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  546. Last_moments_of_roblox
  547. Last moments of roblox
  548.  
  549. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  550.  
  551. October 28, 2021
  552. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  553. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  554. Hour 1
  555. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  556. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  557. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  558. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  559. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  560. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  561. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  562. Hour 3
  563. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  564. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  565. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  566. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  567. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  568. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  569. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  570. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  571. October 29, 2021
  572. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  573. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  574. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  575. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  576. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  577. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  578. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  579. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  580. October 30, 2021
  581. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  582. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  583. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  584. October 31, 2021
  585. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  586. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  587. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  588. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  589. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  590. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  591. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  592. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  593. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  594. Hour 72 –
  595. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  596. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  597. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  598. Aftermath
  599. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  600.  
  601.  
  602. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  603.  
  604. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  605.  
  606. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  607.  
  608. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  609.  
  610. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  611.  
  612. Criticism and rumors
  613. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  614.  
  615. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  616.  
  617. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  618.  
  619. References
  620. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  621. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  622. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  623. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  624. http://web.archive.org/web/20221010222305/https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
  625. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  626. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
  627. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630/5
  628. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  629. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
  630. http://web.archive.org/web/20220915082112/https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
  631. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  632. Reddit.⚠️❕FAKE NEWS❕⚠️ (if u see this it is fake) : roblox (reddit.com)
  633. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
  634. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xSAwmMAPU
  635. Others like you also viewed
  636. 2012 April Fools incident
  637. Roblox Wiki
  638. Ban
  639. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  640. 2014 like-botting incident
  641. 2014 Twitch incident
  642. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  643. Error
  644. Robux
  645. 2019 Roblox security breach
  646. 2014 RoblEX economy crash
  647. List of controversial users
  648.  
  649.  
  650. Categories
  651. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
  652.  
  653. Others like you also viewed
  654. 2012 April Fools incident
  655. Roblox Wiki
  656. Ban
  657. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  658. 2014 like-botting incident
  659. 2014 Twitch incident
  660. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  661. Error
  662. Robux
  663.  
  664.  
  665. Popular Pages
  666. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  667. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  668. Sponsored By Line Games
  669.  
  670. Robux
  671.  
  672. Fragment Games./Rainbow Friends
  673.  
  674. Hexagon Development Community/Evade
  675.  
  676. Gomu/Anime Adventures
  677.  
  678.  
  679. ht tps: //ro blox. fandom.c om / wiki/2021_Roblox_outage
  680.  
  681. I have to separate the link so it would be able to be pasted. That is where I got this from. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  682.  
  683.  
  684.  
  685.  
  686. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  687.  
  688. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  689.  
  690. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  691.  
  692. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  693.  
  694.  
  695. Contents
  696. 1 Timeline
  697. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  698. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  699. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  700. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  701. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  702. 2 Aftermath
  703. 3 Criticism and rumors
  704. 4 References
  705. Timeline
  706.  
  707. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  708.  
  709.  
  710. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  711.  
  712. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  713.  
  714. October 27, 2021
  715. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  716. Last_moments_of_roblox
  717. Last moments of roblox
  718.  
  719. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  720.  
  721. October 28, 2021
  722. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  723. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  724. Hour 1
  725. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  726. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  727. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  728. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  729. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  730. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  731. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  732. Hour 3
  733. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  734. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  735. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  736. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  737. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  738. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  739. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  740. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  741. October 29, 2021
  742. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  743. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  744. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  745. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  746. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  747. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  748. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  749. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  750. October 30, 2021
  751. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  752. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  753. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  754. October 31, 2021
  755. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  756. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  757. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  758. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  759. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  760. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  761. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  762. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  763. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  764. Hour 72 –
  765. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  766. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  767. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  768. Aftermath
  769. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  770.  
  771.  
  772. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  773.  
  774. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  775.  
  776. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  777.  
  778. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  779.  
  780. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  781.  
  782. Criticism and rumors
  783. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  784.  
  785. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  786.  
  787. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  788.  
  789. References
  790. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  791. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  792. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  793. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  794. http://web.archive.org/web/20221010222305/https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-recent-service-outage/
  795. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  796. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
  797. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630/5
  798. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  799. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
  800. http://web.archive.org/web/20220915082112/https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/
  801. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  802. Reddit.⚠️❕FAKE NEWS❕⚠️ (if u see this it is fake) : roblox (reddit.com)
  803. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
  804. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18xSAwmMAPU
  805. Others like you also viewed
  806. 2012 April Fools incident
  807. Roblox Wiki
  808. Ban
  809. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  810. 2014 like-botting incident
  811. 2014 Twitch incident
  812. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  813. Error
  814. Robux
  815. 2019 Roblox security breach
  816. 2014 RoblEX economy crash
  817. List of controversial users
  818.  
  819.  
  820. Categories
  821. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
  822.  
  823. Others like you also viewed
  824. 2012 April Fools incident
  825. Roblox Wiki
  826. Ban
  827. Chipotle/Chipotle Boorito Maze
  828. 2014 like-botting incident
  829. 2014 Twitch incident
  830. 2022 SearchBlox incident
  831. Error
  832. Robux
  833.  
  834.  
  835. Popular Pages
  836. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  837. Why You Should Play ‘Undecember’
  838. Sponsored By Line Games
  839.  
  840. Robux
  841.  
  842. Fragment Games./Rainbow Friends
  843.  
  844. Hexagon Development Community/Evade
  845.  
  846. Gomu/Anime Adventures
  847.  
  848.  
  849. ht tps: //ro blox. fandom.c om / wiki/2021_Roblox_outage
  850.  
  851. I have to separate the link so it would be able to be pasted. That is where I got this from. This is not my work. This is totally copy + pasted straight from Wikipedia. The link to where I got it from is provided Below. I am simply sharing this to give it a URL for my personal use, and for anyone else who made want to see/use it.
  852.  
  853.  
  854.  
  855.  
  856. On October 28, 2021, at 4:45 PM PST/12:45 AM UTC, Roblox servers began to experience major, platform-wide system disruptions across the website and APIs, leading to website services like the Avatar Editor and in-game Avatars being unable to load, huge chat issues, and in-experience performance's becoming very slow. Later, many users were kicked from experiences, and, eventually, all users were. Roblox Studio also later began to function improperly due to these issues.
  857.  
  858. 18 hours after the outage started, Roblox placed the site under maintenance for the first time since 2019. As Roblox incrementally reopened access to the website, the first users could join experiences 63 hours after the start of the outage, while others took longer to gain access. The website was fully reopened worldwide at 5:45 PM PST on October 31, 2021.
  859.  
  860. The outage lasted for 72 hours and 45 minutes, or just over 3 days, making it the longest outage in Roblox history.
  861.  
  862. It was widely believed to be caused by the Chipotle Boorito Maze event or other traffic congestions, but this was quickly denied by the Roblox Twitter account and later by the postmortem blog post.[1] The shutdown led to major internet coverage from Roblox users and non-users alike on YouTube, Twitter, Discord and other social media and news platforms.
  863.  
  864.  
  865. Contents
  866. 1 Timeline
  867. 1.1 October 27, 2021
  868. 1.2 October 28, 2021
  869. 1.3 October 29, 2021
  870. 1.4 October 30, 2021
  871. 1.5 October 31, 2021
  872. 2 Aftermath
  873. 3 Criticism and rumors
  874. 4 References
  875. Timeline
  876.  
  877. The Roblox Status page documenting the incident, seen on October 31, 2021, at 6:00 PDT
  878.  
  879.  
  880. An error message seen on Windows 10 when trying to open Roblox Studio during the maintenance
  881.  
  882. Note: Hour 1 is 5 PM PST.
  883.  
  884. October 27, 2021
  885. At 7 PM PST, the Community Creations tab of the Avatar Shop is reported by one user on the Developer Forum as broken, and even though the outage wouldn't begin until nearly 21 hours after this post was made, some have considered this to possibly be the start of the outage.[2]
  886. Last_moments_of_roblox
  887. Last moments of roblox
  888.  
  889. Footage of Roblox before it was put under maintenance
  890.  
  891. October 28, 2021
  892. During the hours leading up to the event – Users report minor issues with their avatar, and some experiences' lagging more than usual.
  893. 1 hour before the outage – At around 4 PM PST, the bug begins to reach most servers. These servers begin to crash, and some users are unable to join games. Avatars in-game only appear as the default blocky avatar. Most people who are online on Roblox start to notice lag. By the end of the hour, servers begin to crash rapidly.
  894. Hour 1
  895. It is reported that Roblox had lost 99% of its active users.
  896. status.roblox.com reports an "Active Incident" and a "Service Disruption" across the website, mobile app, Xbox app, experiences, Roblox Studio, data stores, experience–joining, and avatar. They report that "many player experiences are impacted".
  897. Hour 2 (6 PM PST)
  898. The website remains accessible, but the pages are completely dysfunctional. Assets on pages, such as avatars, thumbnails, and rating percentages do not load.
  899. The glitch reaches users on the mobile app, who report being logged out of Roblox, which sparks concerns of their accounts possibly being compromised.
  900. The chat filter is affected, causing chat messages to not load properly.
  901. By the end of the hour, the last users go offline.
  902. Hour 3
  903. For the first time since 2016, active-user-count websites report 0 Roblox users online.
  904. Some people report that they are able to sporadically load into the website.[citation needed]
  905. Hour 5 (10 PM PST)
  906. Roblox Studio becomes inaccessible to users.
  907. Users report that the visit button is not visible on experiences' pages, and is replaced with “Unable to verify that you have access to this experience, please try again later”, and the website has become "impossible" to navigate.
  908. It is reported that trying to view pages for experiences will almost always show a HTTP 400 "Bad Request" error.
  909. status.roblox.com reports that they "identified the root cause as (an) internal system issue."
  910. Mobile users are completely locked out of the app, as they aren't able to register or login. Some users thought this was their accounts getting banned.
  911. October 29, 2021
  912. Hour 14 (7 AM PST)
  913. Users report very limited access to Roblox and an ability to visit some experiences, despite the platform's fragile state.
  914. status.roblox.com reports that they "are actively working on the incident", and that "some users started to have limited access."
  915. Hour 15 – @Roblox tweets the following: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right now. We're sorry and working hard to get things back to normal."
  916. Hour 17 (10 AM PST) - The Roblox website is officially closed for "maintenance". This is the first time since 2019 that the website has been fully locked.
  917. Hour 20 (1 PM PST) – @Roblox tweets: "Still making progress on today’s outage. We'll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform", clearing up an initial rumor that an event sponsored by Chipotle contributed to the early stages of the outage.
  918. Hour 21: – status.roblox.com updates to say that "the team continues active work on full site recovery".
  919. Hour 22 – Roblox is #38 in Twitter's worldwide trending hashtags due to the outage.[3]
  920. October 30, 2021
  921. Hour 46 (3 PM PST)
  922. @Roblox tweets: "We [believe we] have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running ASAP. Thanks for your patience." The tweet was deleted shortly after.
  923. status.roblox.com reports "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience."
  924. October 31, 2021
  925. Hour 60 (5 AM PST) – Roblox breaks its previous outage record of just under 60 hours (August 2016), marking its longest-ever outage in its history.
  926. Hour 62 (7 AM PST) –
  927. status.roblox.com updates to say "We believe we have identified an underlying internal cause of the outage. We're in the process of performing the necessary engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox back up and running. Thanks for your patience".
  928. The first users report the ability to open the website.
  929. Hour 64 – @Roblox tweets "We have identified root cause and solution. We are working on getting things back online and we will keep you updated throughout the day". status.roblox.com reports the same thing a minute later.
  930. Hour 65 (10 AM PST) – The ability to open the site started to be rolled out worldwide. For users able to access the website, a banner is placed stating the following: "We are incrementally opening to groups of users and will continue rolling out."[4]
  931. Hour 68 (1 PM PST)
  932. status.roblox.com announces that "Traffic is being allowed incrementally. Some, but not all players will have access".
  933. 8 minutes later, @Roblox tweets: "Quick update as we work to get things back to normal. We are incrementally bringing regions back online".
  934. Hour 72 –
  935. @Roblox tweets: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal."
  936. 15 minutes before the 73rd hour, status.roblox.com updates to report that "Normal operations are restored".
  937. The website's banner updates to say: "Roblox is back online! Thank you for your patience as we get back to normal."
  938. Aftermath
  939. A few hours after the platform was put back up online and was fully functional, Roblox CEO David Baszucki issued an apology[5] on the Roblox Blog about the events that occurred during the past 73 hours. At the end of this blog, Baszucki stated that Roblox would take action on preventing another major site–wide failure like this in the future, as well as stating they will publish a post-mortem with more details about the cause of the outage once their analysis was complete. It was also stated on the Developer Forum that no user persistence data was lost and would issue refunds to developers for advertisements that were not able to run due to the outage.[6] The outage also caused Roblox to lose more than $1.5 billion in market cap on November 1, 2021, a period in which would take in at least $15 million in revenue.[7]
  940.  
  941.  
  942. Refund sent to the creator for their advertisement after the initial outage.
  943.  
  944. Even 20 hours after the end of the outage, there were still some avatar shop API errors and close to zero discoverability for newly released accessories. This was only reported by a very small portion of users. It did not affect any experiences.[8]
  945.  
  946. On November 3, 2021, Roblox began to roll out refunds to developers after their advertisements could not run on the platform during the outage.[9]
  947.  
  948. On November 8, 2021, Roblox announced that they would provide appropriate compensation to developers for lost revenue due to the outage by estimating "Robux earned from marketplace and in-experience transactions, and also Premium Payouts". A few hours later, Roblox began this process.[10]
  949.  
  950. On January 20, 2022, the post-mortem blog post was published by Roblox staff, explaining that the outage was caused by a misconfiguration in a core resource management service running on the experience discovery and platform servers. Furthermore, the time required to diagnose the issue was prolonged due to Roblox's heavy reliance on the impacted systems. In the same blog post, Roblox explained that they have taken the necessary steps to prevent outages at this scale from happening again and intend to expand to multiple datacenters to further mitigate outages.[11]
  951.  
  952. Criticism and rumors
  953. Many users have speculated the outage was fueled by a recently–released Chipotle event where visitors could earn vouchers for free burritos.[12] Multiple rumors spread through platforms such as Reddit and Twitter that Roblox was shutting down due to several reasons, including inappropriate content on their website and bankruptcy.[13] During the early stages of the outage, people rumored that experience loading failures were due to experiences not properly saving, and that users should avoid joining any experience.[14]
  954.  
  955. As the outage extended past the 24–hour mark, members of the community expressed frustration about possibly losing their login streaks that experiences often use to reward visitors. Developers and designers noted that they lost Robux to advertisements placed in the 24–hour period preceding the outage, due to the decreased site traffic, but were later refunded.
  956.  
  957. People have criticized the length of the outage and the inability of engineers to identify the problem for nearly 48 hours. Several influencers made mock videos about Roblox's official Twitter posts.[15]
  958.  
  959. References
  960. Roblox [@Roblox] (2021, October 29). "Still making progress on today’s outage. We’ll continue to keep you updated. Once again, we apologize for the delay. We know that this outage was not related to any specific experiences or partnerships on the platform." [Tweet]. Twitter.
  961. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/recently-updated-tab-on-community-creations-is-broken/1528630
  962. Worldwide • Oct 30, 2021 00:00 • Twitter Trending Hashtags and Topics (getdaytrends.com)
  963. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, October 28). "📶 STATUS: Some users may be experiencing issues loading parts of Roblox. I will keep you updated. https://t.co/vl2dUPhn7A" [Tweet]. Twitter.
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  965. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/roblox-services-are-back-online/1530628
  966. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roblox-sheds-more-than-1-billion-in-market-cap-after-outage-that-could-have-cost-millions-11635792411
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  968. Bloxy News [@Bloxy_News] (2021, November 3). "If you ran an Ad during the time period when Roblox was down this past weekend (October 28-31, 2021), you should now be receiving a full refund for the amount of Robux you paid to run the Ads. Check your Roblox Messages inbox for more information. https://t.co/PSCjqNRnFi" [Tweet]. Twitter.
  969. https://devforum.roblox.com/t/outage-update-our-commitment-to-you/1540427
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  971. Chipotle [@ChipotleTweets] (2021, October 26). "New Chipotle opening Thursday on @Roblox https://t.co/hT4SKexkYa" [Tweet]. Twitter.
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  973. Reddit. Ignore this comment being posted by this user, false information and your data is safe : roblox (reddit.com)
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