I don't now why these were removed. I assume there were plausible reasons to these at the time. Although i feel that these should not have been removed. Now I know that there is going to be some that say that this is a terrible idea and some that say its a great idea. Please don't hate this is just my personal opinion.
Now as for the best friends system.
I don't have any idea as to why this was removed. maybe there were a general group of people in the friend zone that felt less special or something... Although the Best friend zone was important to me because it separated the friends of people who i hanged out with every once and a while and friends i hanged out with a lot and were more memorable. now I'm not saying friends were any less important to me. but the truth is people in my friends list were people that i liked but i didn't see much and best friends were people I saw more frequently. And in no way am I implying that the Following tab should be removed. because there is a difference between friends and people you just follow. people you follow are more likely because they are cool developers that you want to keep tabs on in case they make cool new models or something.
Favorites.
Now some people can say that this is still around because there is still a favorite button. Im not talking about that. I'm talking about the favorites bar that allowed you to view models shirts ect that you had Favorited. I don't know about the rest of you but i used this A lot. but most of the time it wasn't just for models ,shirts ect ect that I liked. I also used this to keep tabs on a model that was soon to be released to the public. Or since i easily lose track of models in my inventory of a couple hundred pages to keep track of some of the models I would use frequently or would use more in the future.
Now as for Free D Or however they said that. for those that don't know what I'm talking about or people who think this is inappropriate because D can nowadays mean something inappropriate. I am talking about a plug - in that took advantage of a program known as cheat engine and allowed you to insert custom Meshes into your game as a single union. Now this i can understand how roblox thought getting rid of this was a great idea, Because this could also made some Inappropriate objects. although banning a Great resource for creativity Is not going to help stop people from making inappropriate content. People still make inappropriate content just fine without it. Lets stop focusing on the negative effect it could have and focus on the up sides This can be used to make more detailed and amazing detailed objects in game with ease! Now some may argue that some of this is just as possible using unions. Yes that is very true. but for one Using the union system is a lot harder to use. especially when you want a very detailed model in one single union. since unions are pretty limited as to how much you can have in one union. It forces you to either make more than one union to have the same amount of detail you want or forces you to remove certain details so you can have a model with less parts but also less detail. so all you achieve by removing this is making it harder to make more detailed objects in game. some very popular and detailed models use this as well! *Examples At Bottom* Now maybe instead of fixing it so that its the exact way it was because an exploit is an exploit none the less witch allows the possibility of other exploits. maybe at least re-introduce it as an official feature in studio. that loads objs as a custom mesh in the form of a csg union.
http://www.roblox.com/Statue-of-Liberty-CSG-Union-item?id=286262682http://www.roblox.com/Boat-CSG-Union-item?id=290294122http://www.roblox.com/Crashed-Helicopter-CSG-Union-item?id=287144835http://www.roblox.com/Light-house-Size-Fixed-CSG-Union-item?id=287284638