Developer Update - 9 April 2026

[kroung]

This: Developer Update - 9 April 2026

@strasz

Therefore, we’ve added a new Group Role Permission, Bypass Avatar Performance Requirements.

And this: Continuing the discussion from April 17 2026 Developer Stream Q&A Summary:

@FlareRune

The option to let individual users override the gating and show a Very Poor avatar was considered and rejected — if that override existed, the system would mean nothing and couldn’t actually drive optimization behavior.

I’m all for the push to make creators make more optimized avatars, but this approach not consistent.

Why allow some to bypass, if the devs allow the group owner overrides on certain ranks? At the same time it would mean nothing if we can’t override to show our friends?

I see groups abusing this, making VIP ranks to allow you to show as very poor in their instances. Please let the end user control who they see, or allow NO bypasses at all. Make the approach consistent. Group owners ask for optimized avatars, It should apply to all with no rank to bypass.