I am disappointed that this was marked as tracked. Unless of course they are tracking this as a feedback consideration for a feature that solves this without actually adding the invisible status.

Most, if not all of the support of this feature is rooted in insecurity. I am sorry to say it, but there are much more effective solutions than an invisible status, including: orange, red, unfriend, and block.

If this was me 5+ years ago, I'd agree. I used to be a socially anxious mess. But now that I've matured in my social skills and mental health education, I think the "invisible" status does not provide nearly as many benefits as it does drawbacks. It is fundamentally a feature that sows deception and deceit.

VRChat is not a typical situation. It is a social platform, not a social media platform. The entire point is direct interactions. It's the same reason I'd hope why VRChat has not implemented direct messages. It does not serve the vision and purpose of VRChat.

"Tracked" nooooo! This is horrible.

Being on red already makes you unavailable.

There is no way to contact or disturb you!!!

Being invisble doesn't help the VRC Playerbase if your friendlist stops existing. People who normally are on orange will be invis.

And lastly if you don't want people on Discord knowing: Just be invisible there or turn off game tracking.

If you want to stalk your friend on discord while being invis yourself and not accepting to close Discord okay. But if your friends don't respect your boundaries with not disturbing I would encourage you to find new ones.

The invisible status won't help with anything.

I can understand if this were a Chat client, but the first time a chat system was integrated it was met with high negativity from the majority of high-profile users.

Simply put, this feature should NOT be added, there is no message system to this game that would allow the "invisible mode" a place to function like other chat systems. That was lost with "Pokes" when everyone hated the idea, even though it was rather well thought out.

Use your Red status mode, drop a note in your Status box, and go about your merry way. You can let people know without being deceptive, that you need "you time," and/or there's an emergency etc. You still receive DM's from people in Discord, if you didn't setup your privacy settings to block them. Being a public figure you should know how much it means to a fan who has you on their friends list in VRC to even just see you online, sure they'd love nothing more than to exist in the same world as you, but should understand when you're on red with the status: "Busy Preventing WW3"

Hell, you could even use the situation between us as an example, what would appearing as invisible for me solve after my Ex spread lies and manipulated everyone into seeing me as a monster? not a whole lot. But blocking and unfriending the masses of hateful people that just sprung up at me out of nowhere was very helpful for my sanity (therapy was too), eventually I managed to clear my name, and now most of everyone sees her for who she really is.

Setting yourself to RED with a message in your status gets the point across about the situation you're in, while making those who have you on their friends list get a fuzzy warm feeling of love to see you online in their friends list, regardless of your status. Though their support will go out to you depending on what your status is. If you were invisible, they'd never see it and thus, never know. Fact is, if your status says you need some space/time, and if they truly do care about you, they will understand to not DM you on Discord for updates on when your next group meetup is, or when you'll be dropping a new merch item etc.

No, I'm not trying to reach out, I'm not considering anything, I am just replying to a suggestion.

How about a setting that reflects your activity only to people who are in the room with you.

E.g.,, when you go shopping and randomly run into someone you know, now that person who met you at the store knows you are active there.

But not everyone in the world knows you are actively out somewhere.

Call it, "Locally Online" status. If people bump into you, that's great.

But if not, well, they'll just have to bump into you.

More accurately, it is meant to mimic how things would organically be if you were exploring places in real life.

Technically, this is like Orange/Busy, but also like an Invisible/Offline status.

The difference is you are not broadcasting to everyone that you are online in some capacity. But if they happen to come across you, they will know.

Sometimes I just don't want people knowing I'm awake at 3am messing around with my avatar for the 3rd time this week

I'm sorry, but that's a horrible idea. Say if something urgent is going on and you need that friend for something. But you can't, because they're invisible. It's not that damn difficult to just turn notifications off and go on DND.

This is one of those features that sounds nice but would just lead to frustration. The game would become a ghost town. Just use Do Not Disturb.

hey guys Lets make a social game... Less social... you see how dumb that is.

for social apps like "Discord, Twitter-(X), Facebook, Even Gmail" will count, you are not, all time looking at dms/email waiting for a new one to come in??? no its not made to do that, its make so you can come in a look see if anything new.

For social Games "VRChat" your playing the game your going to join ppl and talk or beat them up , your pick. and when "Ask" Got added ppl was like "yay a new way to be anit-social"

It's funny how many people with very stalker behavior have been msging me denouncing this feature and only making the case for why we need it lol. "You can just make another account!" "You should block them!" "You can just unfriend them!" But if you are like me and in the social circles you know how akward it can get when you join a world and someone you blocked is there complaining about being blocked by someone there that they can't see. I've even had people join my world hoping to bump into someone that unfriended them to guilt them into refriending them. It's horrible. People really shouldn't jump though hoops for a little privacy. It's when you think you're right to infringe on someone else, is more important than them having some privacy that you know your in the wrong.