I've been using VRC for an year now. I remember how hard it was to find someone to chat in a specific language. Searching for words with the language name would show few results, of which had public instances open and guess what? Full of kids and chaos.

Nevertheless I found through a Discord server another word that was decent enough. But such option is still not available in game.

I face the same problem when trying other VR apps like Resonite, Banter and Horizons. When I come in there's no way to find people to talk in a specific language and age group.

Now when I think about VRChat I see how focused it is in exploring worlds. But the name is not VRWorlds is it? No. The landing hub has a few portals to public English worlds, it's intuitively communicating "go, explore more worlds". As we open the Menu is also there, "Look all these worlds".

Now searching for a group isn't great either, first I need to find a group of that language, let's say there's a hundred, I'd have to enter all of them to see if they have open instances and keep track of the ones that don't. Then I'd have to visit each instance to have an idea of that kind of group that is.

The worse is that if the group has thea language in the name people still ignore it, like one time I tried to play a Draw It game in said language and English speaking users kept joining and complaining about why they couldn't understand the words of the game...

My solution, it would be interesting if we could have an option to Search Public Instances. If the app is called "VRChat" the please let Chat be the focus here. Of course that would require public or group public instances to offer additional details upon creation like Spoken Language and Recommended Age.

Or give new users easier ways to chat in their respective language.

I'm personally starting to make videos and podcasts to attract people that wouldn't usually hang on VRchat or already gave up, because I hear that a lot, and only a few make it to the point of finding the right friends and joining the right groups. But I still think new users could have a better experience at the start.

Iirc the default UI language is English and you have to dig deep to find the option to change it. Why is it not in the login screen or in the small menu? That could be already the main influence in the search function.

By changing the language the home would should also have portals to that language.

Another idea is to have community members as guides to new users. When a new user press "need assistance" these community helpers would be notified, and the first one would be able to join and guide the new user. I know many people would do it for fun, but maybe a VRC+ subscription could be a good reward.

Anyway, here is the 2 cents of someone really interested in seeing the community growing.