The End of Player Sniping
jerx
@jerxl0l
For more than a year, the /snipe command was one of Bloxiana's best-known features, and one of the few reliable ways to find a player in a public Roblox server without a browser extension.
On September 11, 2026, we officially discontinued it - not because people stopped using it. Usage barely changed. We shut it down because the API endpoint for Roblox's Game Server Lists has changed.
What broke
In September 2025, Roblox announced it was testing server-list changes aimed at making it harder for users & influencers to be targeted by people they weren't connected with. That meant limiting how many servers could be browsed, restricting the server-list API, and changing the endpoint that retrieves full public game servers.
Our system relied on searching public servers and comparing player information until we could identify the right one. The biggest problem became player token caching: requests could return the same player tokens for 10-15 seconds instead of fresh data. That gutted DeepSearch, our extended search for harder-to-find players. Searching again just returned what we'd already checked.
On top of that, results were giving out false-positives. /snipe would sometimes report that a player wasn't found, even when they were actually in the game you were trying to snipe them in.
By June 2026, nearly the same number of people were using /snipe, but far fewer searches were succeeding. Keeping a feature online that we knew couldn't deliver wasn't something we wanted to do.
Bloxiana's unusual run
Around late February 2025, Roblox changes broke many of the browser extensions people used for player sniping. Bloxiana survived. For months, we ran a working server-side sniping service while most alternatives didn't. At times, we were essentially the only widely available one still working consistently.
The ironic part: by the time other Discord bot developers started figuring out the methods we'd been using, Roblox was already making changes to the API endpoints to stop us from sniping players reliably.
Why not keep working around it?
Because it became pointless.
We could wait for cached player tokens to expire, re-search servers, and throw more requests and compute at every snipe, spending far more resources to maybe find a player we used to find quickly. At the scale of thousands of users, that adds up fast: higher infrastructure costs, workers tied up longer, and slower searches and longer queues for everyone.
All for a feature whose success rate had already collapsed, and whose next workaround could be broken by the next Roblox change. A workaround being possible doesn't mean it's worth deploying.
That's also why we stopped accepting payments for Premium. We didn't want to charge for a feature we knew couldn't work consistently. We'd rather put our resources into features we can actually keep improving.
Alternatives?
We can't point you to one. Nothing else worked the way ours did, and the things that are still around aren't things we're comfortable recommending.
Some people have fallen back on browser extensions, and we'd strongly advise against that. "BloxFinder" is the obvious example: it was reported to contain a cookie logger in its extension code, capable of stealing the .ROBLOSECURITY cookie and hacking into your Roblox account.
Sources:
A sniping extension runs inside your browser, so it uses your logged-in Roblox session by default. That access is what makes it work in the first place, and it also means you're trusting the developer with your account every time you install one. No snipe is worth that.
More than a sniping bot
Bloxiana is now in more than 54,000 Discord servers, and it's grown well beyond the feature it started with.
Over the past year, we've deliberately moved away from being "the Roblox sniping bot" toward a genuinely useful multipurpose bot for the Roblox creator community: UGC creators, outfit creators, community owners, developers, and anyone who just enjoys the social and entertainment commands.
What's next
The end of /snipe closes a chapter, not the book. With the time and resources it used to take up, we're putting our focus into everything else Bloxiana does: improving our CAC tools, building out creator utilities and Roblox integrations, and expanding our social features.
There will probably never be another feature quite like /snipe. It was chaotic, technically demanding, and often frustrating to maintain, but it helped put Bloxiana on the map.
To everyone who used it, whether once or daily: thank you. We had a good run. ❤️
/snipe may be gone, but Bloxiana isn't finished.
