Roblox morning briefing — September 19, 2026: the 2004 site returns tonight, an unnamed Hunt event, and YouTube videos leave game pages

The 2004 DynaBlocks site comes back tonight at 20:00

• What sits behind the countdown. The page imitates an early site down to its columns: "Sign In... (it's free)", My GoBlocks with saved games, created models and preferences, contests split into game playing, model building and game building, and a Community block holding top point holders, all time high scores, contest winners, news, chat, message boards and digital assets. 1
• What a visitor can click. Play a Game runs from puzzles and construction to crash-ups, junkyard games and a "Join multiplayer game..." link; Build a Game offers a level editor download; Browse Models lists cars, aircraft, droids, weapons and furniture. 1
• The two pictures on it. Both contest showcases are January 2004 winners, John's Puzzle Game for game design and Dump Truck for model design. 1
• Its own footer. "Copyright 2003 DYNABLOCKS, Inc. Patents pending". 1
• What happens at zero. Roblox has published nothing about it. The event's page on Roblox ends its description with "Stay tuned for more surprises as The Hunt: Roblox 20 unfolds," and the domain appears nowhere in the newsroom post that announced the event. 34

The Hunt adds an event with no name, and its crowd thins

• Where the hub stands this morning. At 08:15 Central European time the experience reported 97,762 players inside it, 149,281 favourites and 103,451,635 visits. 5
• What the same hour showed yesterday. The hub page reported 188,436 players at 08:20 on launch morning, with 79,669 favourites and 33.6 million visits. 3
• What stayed the same. The experience was created on September 14 and last updated on September 18 at 20:43 Central European time. Its description still ends with the promise of more surprises, and the event still closes on September 28. 35
• What the thread is asking. The leaderboard question from yesterday still has no answer from Roblox. The newest posts come from a player who says an old ban in Lumber Tycoon 2 has locked them out of the 2015 era, and who asks either for a replacement game for that year or for the requirement to drop to 19 of 20, and from developers unhappy that games built for the older avatar rig have been ported to the current one. 6

The fall roadmap: 72 items added, 32 pushed back

• The scorecard that came with it. Since the last RDC, Roblox has shipped 130 roadmap features, 79% of them on time, and closed 4,401 bug reports. 7
• Early testing (late 2026): a creator hands up to 10 friends access to a game before it goes public. 7
• Client sessions and logs (late 2026): client performance and logs become readable in Creator Hub and Studio beside the server logs. 7
• 2D particles (late 2026): screen-space sparks, smoke and fireworks for UI surfaces. 7
• Orthographic camera (late 2026): true orthographic projection for 2D and isometric games. 7
• Minimum draw distance (late 2026): low-end devices move from 200 studs to 500. 7
• UI blur (early 2027): backdrop blur in UI screen space, a feature request a developer in the thread dates back six years. 7
• New primitive parts (early 2027): capsule, cone, disc and rounded shapes join BasePart. 7
• Compute functions (early 2027): event-driven or scheduled Luau that runs without a game server acting as its host. 7
• What slipped. Among the 32 delayed items, Player Support now carries a late 2026 window, later than the mid-2026 date it held before, two days after it opened in early access. CSG on meshes and glTF export also moved to late 2026, and the streaming excluded mode, the advanced video API and analytics for game chat and voice all moved to mid-2027. 7
• What the thread is asking. One developer thanked Roblox for UI blur and noted the feature request is six years old. Two asked whether alpha and transparency are still planned for avatar items, which this update leaves out. One wanted the higher draw distance to reach shadows, lighting and grass on every device, beyond the low-end minimum the roadmap names, and another asked what the pathfinding upgrade will include. 7

YouTube videos come off game detail pages on September 30

• How a trailer stays. A creator uploads a video file through Creator Hub, then Configure, then Places, then Videos. Roblox reviews the file before it appears on the page, and the same upload can surface on the homepage. 8
• What it costs. An uploaded video is free with a monthly quota of three uploads, and a game's detail page holds up to 10 images or videos. 10
• What the thread is asking. One developer asked whether the YoutubeVideo asset type disappears along with the embeds, and another answered that Roblox has historically left superseded asset types in place. Two asked whether the earlier uploads will be refunded, one of them calling the old uploading expensive; the same refund question went to Roblox in the November thread. One developer worked out that three uploads a month is a quota most creators will struggle to use up, and another welcomed the change for cutting Google's trackers out of the platform. 89

Shorts ideas to chase first

1. Before and after 20:00. Record the DynaBlocks countdown this afternoon and the page again tonight once it has been replaced. That hour is the only one today, and the first half of the Short disappears when it arrives. 1
2. What sits behind three question marks. The hub's unnamed event runs at 03:00 Sunday here. Whoever is awake films it as it opens; a morning capture of the same card after "???" is gone supplies the second half. 3
3. The trailer deadline. Film a game page while its YouTube trailer is still there, then the Videos tab in Creator Hub where its replacement goes. 8
4. The next roadmap item. Early testing with up to 10 friends is the nearest thing to ship, and the roadmap page is the calendar that says when to start checking Studio. 7