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Unable to load friends/parties in rift or go

vanfanel
Heroic Explorer

Posted this on reddit but maybe someone here has seen this problem:






I'm currently working with support but it doesn't seem obvious as to
what the problem is. I get the errors aboe in my rift and go when I try load
friends/parties. I tried using my cellphone as a hotspot and using that
connection with my go as we suspected that perhaps something with my
local network was blocking it but it still failed.



I'm assuming it is something specific to my account but I'm not sure.
Maybe some weird unicode character that some friend's name is using
that is causing the loading error? I'm out of ideas. The last thing I
could think of was to unfriend everybody and start from scratch.



So at the moment social is completely broken. When I get invited to a
party or something it just goes to those error screens as well 😕



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cybereality
Grand Champion
OK thanks for the report. We'll have to look into this.
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RoblemVR
Honored Guest
Having the same issue. Friends list works fine on the phone apps, Gear and GO fails with "We couldn't load friends and parties. Please try again". After 10 days of working with support they told me "We're working to get this resolved in a future update, but we don't have an ETA."

Don't spouse we have an ETA now do we?

cybereality
Grand Champion
We're looking into it now, no ETA at the moment.
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hofnik
Explorer
Still couldn't load friends or parties at Go and Gear VR

TheDreamKeeper
Honored Guest
I am still having the same problem also. When are they going to fix this issue ????????

cybereality
Grand Champion
I've messaged the team again about this. Thanks for your patience.
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RoblemVR
Honored Guest
This worked for me, hope it works for you. Credit goes to my friend Chris Madsen on twitter. 
https://twitter.com/deep_rifter/status/996855614096654337
"On your Oculus phone app, go to 'settingsx and then to 'linked accounts' and turn OFF 'sync Facebook friends'."

vanfanel
Heroic Explorer
Unfortunately that did not work for me.  I tried this in the phone app, rebooted and then tried it on the oculus home app and rebooted both and finally tried it on the website and failed.

However, what did work for me was I systematically started deleting friends in my list in groups of 10 or so.  I finally got to a point where my friends list eventually showed up.  My suspicion is that one of the last few people I deleted had not one or two but maybe 8-10 special characters in their name (something like àáâãäāöò...etc)  and perhaps this was causing the problem.  I really don't know for sure though.

Selvz
Explorer
same problem here. tried turning off "sync FB friends" but did not work  :'( :s 😞