[2019] A friendlist of 150+ people causes stuttering ingame, what does a friendlist of 300+ do? it causes the game to freeze for a few seconds everytime you open up the social tab.

As explained in the title, I'm not too sure how many people are affected by it or even notice it. My friendlist is currently at over 360+ people. Every single time i open up my friendlist, the game freezes for 2-5 seconds. Every. Single. Time.

You start to notice the escalating issues the bigger your friendlist is. My problem (and a few mates) started at around 125-150 people on the friendlist, He was experiencing stuttering similar to mine and we couldnt quite put the finger on what caused it, so he decided to accept all his remaining friendrequests which removed his lag entirely.

This gave me an idea, i spoke to a few friends who i know have big friendlists and we all had the same reccuring problem:

Ingame stuttering and a big friendlist.

After pushing our oversized friendlist heads together, we had this brilliant idea. Is it us, or is it our accounts? The problem remained as we tried a few alt characters, but then i decided to log on my 2nd account.

Lo and behold, 0 issues on the same PC with the same settings. The friends i have with alt accounts also confirmed 0 issues on their other accounts with the same settings.

These issues only happen when you open up the friendlist or have too many pending friend requests. the amount of them seems to be above 125-150+, After that the problems only get worse.

pinging /u/valseek and /u/ladydevann for a small nudge :)