Open Beta

This is a bug report and a feature request. The new nameplate system completely trashes group banners, which didn't have a great standard (or any standard, for that matter), to begin with. Currently, on live, a (mostly) consistent group banner means uploading a mostly transparent picture with the actual banner in the middle. This is wasting tons of space that could be actually used to show other art or graphics on the group page. The image scales very poorly on some parts of the site, as well. Our uploaded group banner is 2000x1126, following this unofficial guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/10e11hb/groups_banner_guide/ The main group page shows the original 2000x1126. A group event page with no custom thumbnail 1024x576 The groups landing page scales the image to 256x144. This is extremely bad if you have made a banner with transparency, as per above. I'm sure there are many more exposed within the client itself and maybe other parts of the website. But I think this is a good demonstration of how wildly inconsistent this group feature is. And now on beta with the new nameplate, we see just a few pixels of the group banner. This is effectively useless now for representing a visual of your group. I've attached a picture showing some of these inconsistencies.

The new profiles contain less information available at first glance, things are all over the place (e.g. pronouns next to Verified 18+ next to represented group), elements appear big. I believe in having more things at glance, no layout shift (things moving other things), better grouped information, less empty space - better effectiveness and readability in short. I put together my slightly reimagined version of the design in the attachment that might better convey what could be improved. 2 screenshots - before and after

The new profile themes allow users to choose arbitrary colors for text, buttons, icons, and backgrounds. Some combinations can make functional UI difficult or impossible to read, for example, white text on a bright yellow button. This is primarily a readability and visual-comfort issue. Poor contrast can affect users with low vision, color-vision deficiencies, migraines, light sensitivity, or other visual-processing difficulties. It can also be especially uncomfortable in VR headsets. Please add an accessibility option that lets viewers override custom profile themes with VRChat's default colors. Ideally, this would include a global toggle to show/hide custom profile themes, automatic use of default colors when a high-contrast accessibility mode is enabled, or contrast validation in the theme editor to prevent unreadable combinations. Profile customization is a nice form of self-expression, but the viewer's accessibility and readability preferences should take priority over another user's theme.

Nameplate decorations create too much visual noise, and make it harder to read text on nameplates. I play with nameplates off most of the time because I find them to be too distracting and ruin the immersion. When I bring up nameplates using the quick menu, it's because I want to be able to read information as quickly as possible, i.e usernames, statues, group banners. Nameplate decorations make this harder, as I now need to visually separate the text from the now differently colored backgrounds. Profile decorations are already obnoxious on discord, but at the very least they are only visible when you look at someone's profile. I think that as long as VRC keeps profile decorations to user's profile pages, I'm okay with it. Putting it on nameplates takes it too far.

According to another canny post, the new nameplates have had the earmuff mode icon functionality intentionally left out of the redesign. This is a baffling decision to me as I think it's important to know if a user you're interacting with has earmuff mode enabled or not, just as important as it is to know if they have you muted or themselves deafened or not. I think this feature should be added back into the new nameplates.

I feel that 99% of the time you open your quick menu to select someone, it's to show an avatar or send a friend request. The new UI currently shoves all of those user actions into a dropdown menu off the screen when you initially open the menu. This means you have to scroll down every single time, which seems like a small action, but in VR, it can compound with the amount of time people spend in VRChat very quickly. Here is a proposed revision to the UI to reduce the amount of wasted space while retaining the information presented in the new UI layout and also allowing the first two rows of the buttons to be easily accessed. It's important to display information about someone to a user, but you shouldn't be adding in more friction to an action that people can perform hundreds of times when in VR.

With the new nameplate losing even more real estate for group banners, the difficulty in making a banner that looks good both on nameplates and on the group page has increased significantly. If the new group banner real estate for nameplates stays as is, I think there should at least be a separate, nameplate specific banner that you can upload, with a clear template during the upload process that shows us a consistent visibility window across all options (min-max nameplate length, menu closed/open, etc)

The old VRchat nameplates are well-known to degrade game performance when turned on, setting nameplates to hidden improves your performance by about 10fps on average. The new nameplate refresh does nothing to fix or otherwise improve this degradation, and I'd prefer that be prioritized.

Pronoun truncation currently does not change by nameplate size. See image (courtesy of boxofbiscuits97) where the nameplate gets longer, but the truncation does not change. If the nameplate increases in length, truncate less.

place or send a custom sticker or emoji with transparency and it'll be broken.