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Secure Instances

In an upcoming update, we’ll be slightly changing how instances work. These changes are intended to make instances more secure and intuitive for all users.

In the past, if you created a private instance – for example, a Friends instance – then only your friends would be able to join the instance. However, if you created the instance via the VRChat website and then handed that link to someone that was not your friend, they would still be able to join the instance! Similarly, if you created a Friends instance and then dropped a portal to it in a public instance, anyone could see and go through the portal – even if they weren’t your friend.

While this was intended behavior, it has led (understandably!) to a lot of confusion, as well as abuse.

In this upcoming release, we’ll be rolling out an improvement called Secure Instances. In short, Secure Instances (or SI, as we’ve been calling it) enforces the instance rules on the server side when you enter an instance.

For example, in order for you to join a Friends instance, you must follow the rules: you must be a friend of the creator of the instance to join. Joining using a link or the instance ID no longer works if you do not meet the set rules of the instance.