Will VRChat ever do anything about the avatar search worlds that have recently popped up?
Historically VRChat refused to add public avatar searching under the basis that they wanted people to explore to find avatars, and they had no way to differentiate between “this should just be global” public and “this has been uploaded for a specific reason” public. The avatar search worlds literally go against VRChat’s own design choices.
Also renders avatar worlds useless for the most part because people can now just use those search worlds, which I doubt was in the wishes of many of the people making avatars for avatar worlds either.
There’s at least 3 avatars that I’ve uploaded exclusively for their respective owners (who have never shared them or had cloning enabled) that show up in these worlds for anyone to use. I’ve reported it, the VRC staff don’t care, despite it being clear abuse/misuse of the API (as it’s to circumvent cloning being disabled).
And to anyone that says “bUT PuBLIc iS puBLic!!111” - there’s no “X person only” functionality, this is the best we have.
Would you rather I just said “fuck you” to my friends and didn’t help them? I guess really a lot of the pushback comes from the greedy people who are now happy to have access to a lot of avatars that they shouldn’t, which isn’t surprising given much of VRC’s userbase.