VRChat incident

Friends & Travel Performance Issues

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

VRChat experienced a minor incident on January 4, 2026 affecting Social / Friends List and Realtime Player State Changes, lasting 2h 51m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 04, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 04, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC
Duration
2h 51m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 04, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC

Affected components

Social / Friends ListRealtime Player State Changes

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 04, 2026, 05:10 AM UTC

    We're investigating issues with slowness in friends list updates and changing instances

  2. monitoring Jan 04, 2026, 07:23 AM UTC

    Performance is returning to normal, we're continuing to monitor to ensure things remain stable.

  3. resolved Jan 04, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.