The Social Tab Not Refreshing Fast
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dasmith 1999
like if someone leave the world and your friends with them it take 5 to 10 minutes for it to show where they went
so that means I'm waiting to join them witch it sucks
I just want it little bit faster
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Aev
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Fixed in a previous update, friend info should load much faster now.
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OrochiTabris
5 to 10 minutes is on the low end for the wait times I'm experiencing when it comes to social tab refreshing. I don't remember this being a problem, or if it was it was the delay was short enough that I didn't care. It actually seems to be getting worse over time.
It was bad enough when it was 1-2 minutes, even that is ridiculous for something that should refresh almost instantly when clicked on. But then it started to take longer, and since restarting VRC wasn't helping I'd just go get a drink or find something else to do while waiting. Now it can last hours, the length is unpredictable and seems arbitrary.
I can log in after a break of several hours, join on someone, and be taken to a room they were in several hours ago, a room I had been in with them at that time, because it still hasn't refreshed. Which is what happened just now as I'm typing this. I'm taken to an empty room, and after multiple restarts that's still where it says he is.
This affects not only locations but which avatar is active, and that includes myself. When others change their avatar, and even when I do it, the profile picture stays the same for a similarly arbitrary length of time. The social tab even shows friends still logged on even when I can see, in my Steam friends list, that they're not even running VRC.
There might be a technical reason for limiting social tab refreshes, but this can't be the intended behavior. If this is something that can just happen now and then for whatever reason, a "refresh" button (which could have a short cooldown to prevent spamming) would be nice.
I'm not sure how many are affected by this. Considering this post is from 9 days ago, and it only has 10 votes, apparently not many. At least not many who are aware of this site.
...Also I just clicked "social" to check again, and it launched the Xbox app. Maybe the social panel is more broken than just a refresh delay. Can't reproduce it, but literally all I did was hit escape and click, it's not like I mashed my fist on the keyboard and hit a previously-unknown shortcut... weird.