Removed Features
[Reason: No reason provided.]
Booping
Booping was a social feature revealed in the May 30th Developer Update allowing friends to send a "boop" to eachother. This could have been attached with any emoji including custom emojis, only if the user was an active VRChat+ subscriber and have uploaded custom emojis to their gallery. When the recipient of a boop opened their notifications, the emoji attached to the boop would've been fired locally in a “Boop Explosion”, a blast of the emoji from the boop. Boop recipients would have also received a push notification from the VRChat app on mobile devices. Boops would have only been able to be sent to friends, and could have been disabled.
The feature was implemented into the Open Beta branch on June 6th, due to community reception, the feature was removed June 18th with the following message on the official VRChat Discord:
No Booping No More
If you were paying attention to previous builds, you might've noticed there's something missing from this update: Booping. That's intentional. While we were excited about testing the feature, it was clear that folks weren't into it.
We're not interested in forcing a feature on the community that they're not into, so we're pulling it. In the future, we might try testing a reworked version of Booping, but it's unlikely to be something we try for awhile.
While it didn't quite go the way we wanted it to, we still appreciate the candid and honest feedback from the community.
