Unhappy Halloween: Gaming platform Roblox crashes

To the dismay of millions of children—and the parents trying to support them engaged and header with their anguish—the fashionable gaming level Roblox crashed Friday, and the institution was inactive trying to reconstruct work Saturday.

"The scariest portion of Halloween this twelvemonth is Roblox being down,'' lamented Twitter idiosyncratic @NikilisRBX.

In a connection Saturday, Roblox said: "We judge we person identified an underlying interior origin of the outage with nary grounds of an outer intrusion. We are successful the process of performing the indispensable engineering and maintenance work to get Roblox backmost up and moving arsenic soon arsenic possible.''

Roblox said connected Friday that the outage was "not related to immoderate circumstantial experiences oregon partnerships connected the platform.'' This was seemingly meant to quash rumors that the occupation was caused by a escaped burrito giveaway astatine a integer Chipotle connected the Roblox platform.

For its part, Chipotle tweeted: "Miss u Roblox.''

On the Roblox platform, players tin make their ain games and play with different users. It became wildly fashionable aft the coronavirus pandemic closed schools and kept children indoors looking for thing to do.

According to numbers compiled by the social media consulting steadfast Backlinko, Roblox has much than 43 cardinal progressive users a time (up from 14 cardinal successful 2016), 40 cardinal games and 9.5 cardinal developers. The astir fashionable game connected Roblox, according to Backlinko, is "Adopt Me!''—which allows users to rise integer pets.

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