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>What is 'map exploring'? Just hopping servers looking for cool shit?
Yeah. Vrchat gets a steady stream of new maps all the time, with either interesting environments or some sort of game mechanics or other gimmicks. The "meetup" crowd will generally hop maps every half an hour or so to keep things fresh, and those instances are generally what you'll see screenshots of posted in the thread. Exploring happens more on weekdays, as the weekend crowd is too big and too drunk to corral into new worlds. You'll still find smaller splinter groups on weekends doing their own exploration though, or playing games like mahjong, though that reclined this past weekend.

>I'm EU (uk) though so thursday evening NA time is probably a bit late for me most weeks.
Yeah, it's generally around 2100 EST/1 AM UTC. We've done weekend newbies lobbies during afternoon NA hours/evening EU hours though, we'll have to do another sometime.