Social Tab Refresh
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DrM
Hello, my username in VRChat is DrM and I would like to request some kind of refresh button for Social Tab in game. Is there any possibility to do that?
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Yergo
Agree that this is seriously needed. Feels like my socials list never updates without me manually restarting the game. Also would love to see it for the avatars tab.
Whirlwes
This would be very useful since I either see my socials list never updating or user profiles are bugged and can't join off of friends unless I restart VRChat.
Layfe_Kuro
gonna bump this as socials now refresh maybe once per hour now and not even after a game restart...have to rely on vrcx for everything api related which always means restarting the game to join friends
Scout - VRChat Head of Quality Assurance
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NEMELIS
yes this could be very useful
because if we want to join our friend
he could go to another world or go offline
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
Merged in a post:
Friend Locations Refresh In Social Menu
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Cosmic_Nebula
I'm not sure if anyone else has an issue with the menu updating where your friends locations are but it happens every time to me and I have to restart the game for it to update. It would be really fantastic if there was a refresh friend locations button on the social menu.
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
open
Let's swap this back to Open. That doesn't mean anything other than "leaving stuff as planned for almost a year seems annoying".
The way we chose to attack this problem is via improving how live data is handled-- in particular, using Friend Sync to update your friends in real time. It actually ends up working fairly well.
Of course, just because something is the New Hotness doesn't mean it is without bugs! We're working on those.
As an aside, there's a definite psychological effect of simply having a "refresh" button available. I know I hit it in my browser even though I don't really need to.
A good idea, even if it might be less needed nowadays.
Kaugumme
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
Merged in a post:
Add a 'force refresh' button for the social menu
Salbug
I know this would only be a band-aid for the issue, but for a long while now the social menu has been about 70-80% busted for me. It never updates a person's location or whether they have gone offline or vice versa as much anymore, only like maybe 15-20% of the time. The only way I can ever keep my social up-to-date now is by closing and re-launching the app which forces an update for the social menu. Currently, I have to rely on external sources of the API like the VRC website or VRCX to get around on my friend's list and even those have been finicky recently because of the API issues. A button would at least help make it so I don't have to rely on using external sources to see friends. Rate-limiting the button to one refresh per sixty seconds so as not to over-burden the network of course. As it stands right now, this is the main and only issue I've been having and I desperately want this one corrected.
digiponta
I also think that the VRChat should support the refresh button for the Social tab. The implementation of that button can also reduce unnecessary network traffic. Many of players do not necessarily need the latest information soon when opening Social Tab. So, I think the easy solution is to press the button when you need the latest information.
However, there may be more cool solutions, but the solution must take time. I think there are other important improvements.
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