Room Join Rate Limit Update

Yes and I've noticed it happening to others along with other room loading issues; especially to mobile users. 

Unfortunately, ever since the last update, my IMVU experience has gone from bad to worse. It takes a long time to load—whether it's the avatar, the shop, my inventory, rooms, changing outfits, or adding items to a room.

I have a good PC and an excellent connection; I play games that are much more demanding than IMVU.

Yet, every time I contact support, I simply can't get a straight answer—it’s always just the standard boilerplate response.

Is anyone else dealing with this issue?

DiamondBones

What was done to you is sometimes called astroturfing.

Astroturfing is the act of generating hype and artificially inflating popularity of something or someone. This is often used to promote something or someone for some intended purpose. In the past it was often practiced in highly regulated countries where most of the population was or still is highly authoritarian and a cultural homogeneous ethnicity. Now it's also being practiced in nations that are considered to be liberated and multicultural. 

Modern examples of astroturfing can often be found in the world of: advertising, influencers and popstars. Especially if the advertising, influencers and popstars promote consumerism or movements that are approved by the legacy media, groups with corporate globalizing interests and also by political regimes. Often the purpose of that form of astroturfing is to guide or control society; a way to heard the sheep. 

Thank you for your efforts in reducing bot activity. I've noticed a reduced amount of bot spam in my feed comments. I've spoken to one in my dms before and they explained they shared that account and were actually PAID to engage... this baffled me because I never hired them, n'or do I understand why someone would pay them to engage in MY feed comments. I found it insane because they'd do it seconds after I posted, no matter what time of day or night it was. It looked like to me they were hired by imvu staff to make their feed feature more active, but then I see an announcement like this where it looks like they're completely against bots... so I don't know if someone was trying to be generous with me and thought giving my feed posts more engagement would somehow be seen as something good? All I know is that even after I told them to stop, they did not! and I got really tired of blocking them all that I just gave up. So the changes you guys are doing is noticed and appreciated by me, thank you!