Community Labs
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Q: How long does it take for my world to get to Public status?
A: There's no set "time". Your world going Public out of Community Labs is based off many factors. The factors involved are best described as "How much do users seem to be enjoying your world?"
Community Labs is a status for worlds that have been uploaded publicly, but have not had enough exposure. To be able to upload worlds publicly or privately to VRChat, you must first reach the User trust rank. By submitting your world to Community Labs, it stops being private, and will get placed the "Community Labs" row in the World tab.
Community Labs is like a "trial period" before a word officially goes public. You are permitted to publish only one world to Community Labs per week. You can update your world whenever you like, even more than once, regardless of whether it's private, in Community Labs, or Public.
To be able to view Community Labs worlds, enable the Show Community Labs toggle in the "Comfort and Safety" settings in order to view these worlds.
FAQ[1]
Q: I have a Private world. How do I put it into Community Labs?
A: Just press the "Publish to Community Labs" button in the SDK, or press the "Publish" button on your World page on the VRChat Home Website. You can only Publish a world once per week.
Q: I have a Public/Community Labs world I'd like to take down back to Private.
A: Go to the VRChat Home website, and click the Unpublish button. When you choose to re-publish your world, users will still have your world in their Favorites, and you'll retain some of your previous world stats. users will not be able to see the name or picture of your world in their list instead they will see "world currently set to private".
Q: I can only Publish once per week? How can I be expected to iterate or update with a limit that strict?
A: The limit applies only when publishing brand new worlds. You can update your existing world, no matter what state it is in (Private, Community Labs, Public), whenever you like. Your world will remain at whatever status it is in.
Q: I have a world that I want categorized as an Avatar/Game/etc World. How do I do that?
A: If you want your world to be categorized as an Avatar World or Game World, just add the appropriate tag from the VRChat website, or by pressing the add tags button in the SDK. However don't falsify your world or abuse tags to promote your world. Utilizing "SEO-like" techniques is not permitted. VRChat reserves the right to moderate users who abuse our systems to unfairly or misleadingly promote their own content.
Q: Is it possible for a world to never leave Community Labs?
A: Not really. It might take a very long time for a world to get out of Labs (if it isn't popular at all), but given endless time, a world will eventually get out of Labs.
Q: How does a world fail out of Community Labs? What can I do if my world fails out of Community Labs?
A: If a world is reported, it will be investigated. If a world breaks the Terms of Service, is malicious, or some other report is sent that is valid, it will be delisted from Labs. The same goes for Public worlds. If you correct the issue-- say, bad performance-- you can re-submit your world to the Labs. If your world had some more serious issues, like Terms of Service violations, you may find yourself restricted from submitting worlds.
Q: How does VRChat prevent "report bombs" or falsified reports?
A: We use the same methods used in avoiding false/inaccurate reports on users/worlds now to detect invalid reports. This is a tested system that has served us quite well, and will prevent malicious users from abusing the report system.
Resources
VRChat Community Labs on docs.vrchat.com
