As seen in this review on LoginPlus:

vCompat's updater is fetching data from the GitHub API without authentication, which sometimes causes it to fail to start. To solve this issue, vCompat Updater must either
- Use vCompat's own caching server, which caches the results from the GitHub API (optionally with its own token), or
- Allow graceful failure if the GitHub API rate limit is reached — an exception should not be thrown.
As seen in this review on LoginPlus:

vCompat's updater is fetching data from the GitHub API without authentication, which sometimes causes it to fail to start. To solve this issue, vCompat Updater must either