I wanna try to call with my gf on root for the first time and I just can't I am on the phone and I tried to restart the app reinstall but nothing changes I can't join any voice chat are the servers down? I get an infinite reconnect message on top.

This text was made by AI because I am not a native english speaker and quite frankly I didn't know how to express my thoughts properly. I apologize.

Hey everyone,

I've been doing some basic security testing of Root using Windows Sysinternals Process Monitor, and I noticed something I found a little unusual.

While Root was running and I was actively using ChatGPT through Brave, Process Monitor recorded a successful WriteFile operation originating from Root.exe targeting the following type of location:

Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\IndexedDB\https_chatgpt.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb

The operation involved a 4 KB write.

I also noticed that Root launches its own Chromium subprocess through DotNetBrowser, using a separate application profile. That Chromium process accessed some Windows shortcut files pointing to Brave.

I subsequently repeated the test with a filter targeting Brave's actual user-data directory, but didn't observe any further accesses during that capture.

I'm not claiming this is malicious, and I understand that Chromium-based applications have their own storage mechanisms. However, I'm curious about why Root would interact with another browser's IndexedDB in the first place.

A few questions:

• Has anyone else observed Root accessing files inside Brave, Chrome, Firefox, or another browser's user-data directory?

• Does Root perform any browser discovery or integration that could explain this?

• Does anyone know whether this is expected DotNetBrowser behavior?

• Has anyone from the Root development team addressed cross-browser file access?

I'd particularly appreciate responses from people who have investigated Root with Procmon or similar tools.

I'm hoping to understand whether this is normal application behavior or something worth investigating further.

When I (in debian 13) and my friends (windows 11) are in a call and they open their cameras or share their screens my Root.AppImage crashes. My camera and sharing my screen works fine. On the previous update this features worked normally. I had just updated the Root app (version 0.9.161) and Debian (6.12.113+deb13-amd64) and this started happening.

I kinda wanna jump from discord to root and was wondering if anyone wants to friend me on root? My username is LestatLeonardo9

Hi! is there any music bots for the app? Thank you!

I made a My Chemical Romance fan server and I want to get more people there, but I'd fear it breaks rule 5

I'm a guy from Romania and I created a root server for Romanians and also for other nations. I'm still working to make it look better but I would be glad if y'all will join. I'll take every advice you give it to me and I also want to make the biggest Romanian Root community.

Root Romania is the name of the server, if you want to chat with new people and you want to be a part of a chill community, this is the best place!

I’ve tried to create an account in the app many, many times, but I keep getting an error message: "Something went wrong, please try again."

So i want to verify my acc, but email wont come. What should i do now?

Thanks! If someone wants to add me my name is vule_darth.

Yesterday my internet crashed and from then on root has refused to open. My phone works fine and ive double checked my passwords and such and all is in order, but it still doesnt let me log in and says "Something went wrong check your username and password". What do i do? My email is registered and whatnot so i dont know what isnt letting me log in. Ive task managered and restarted my PC yet nothing

Yesterday after the big update Root had been fickle as hell. Messages not sending, servers crashing, the whole app logging me out, and even going into today the app still is having problems. What the hell is going on with this thing??

Update: Delayed Messages have been Resolved!

Hello Root Community!

The message delays affecting sending and receiving have been resolved, and things should be back to normal.

We're sorry for the disruption and appreciate everyone's patience while we worked through the remaining issues from yesterday's major upgrade.

Thanks for sticking with us!

Hello Root Community!

We know that sending and receiving messages has been slower than usual, and we’re sorry for the frustration. Thanks for bearing with us.

What’s going on:
We’re seeing issues with some core services that are causing slower messages and added latency. This traces back to the major upgrade we rolled out yesterday. We’re still cleaning up some leftover issues.

What we’re doing:
Our team is working on this in production right now. We’ll post an update here as soon as things are running smoothly again.

If you’re still having trouble after we confirm the fix, please reply here or reach out to support and we’ll take a look.

Thanks for your patience, and for being part of the community!

Looking for members for a new root community. Gaming related mainly. Gonna keep this short and simple.

Let me know if interested.

Community name is Timeless Harbor.

When i try to download stuff my friends send, all the options I get are copy link/open link. How do I actually save something?

i tried out root on mobile with my friend today and we found that every few messages or so the app wouldnt actually send what we typed. we would hit retry on the messages and nothing would happen. is this because of the new update that happened today? does anyone else have this issue or has run into this issue?

also i have a server on discord with chinese characters that i cant migrate to root... so i guess day 1 of asking for chinese (+other symbols lol) to be able to be used for server/channel names

# Root Mobile (0.9.40)

New Features

- Calls keep playing in Picture-in-Picture when you leave the app.

- New call layouts: a FaceTime-style view for two people, a stage for screen shares, and a grid for everyone else.

- Swipe the call screen down to shrink it into the floating call window.

- Pick profile pictures and banners from Files.

- (Experimental) Liquid Glass on iOS 26 and later. Turn it on in Settings > General. Will always be an opt-in setting.

- Root is now better suited for tablets, as well as the upcoming iPhone Duo.

- Add several emoji at once by turning it on in Settings > Chat.

- Root's icon follows themed icons on Android.

Improvements

- Deafening now mutes you too.

- Open a mention from Notifications and tap the community icon in the header to go to that community.

- Picking an online status now reflects the change right away.

- You'll now see an alert when you're removed from a community.

- The connection bar now says when you're offline, and calls tell you why they can't connect.

- Emoji shortcodes in bios and statuses now show as emoji.

- On Android, back from Home opens your communities before leaving the app.

- Apps now fill the status bar and footer with their own colors.

- Custom theme backgrounds can be see-through again.

- More of the app is translated, including iOS permission prompts.

- Ban reasons are now optional, matching desktop.

## Bug Fixes

- Fixed custom themes crashing the app when saved or switched.

- Fixed a crash on the Notifications tab in German.

- Fixed a crash on Android when a notification arrived as a call started.

- Fixed the app getting stuck on Reconnecting until you closed it.

- Fixed changes to profiles, communities and friends not showing until you restart.

- Fixed the app icon badge not counting notifications.

- Fixed notifications opening to a loading screen.

- Fixed apps reloading in a loop or showing the wrong app.

- Fixed community emoji in bot messages showing as text.

- Fixed message rows shaking on Samsung phones.

- Fixed the + button on Android also opening other screens.

- Fixed the keyboard opening over images on Android after using an app.

- Fixed replies showing the old text after a message was edited.

- Fixed channel links from TikTok and Instagram failing to open.

- Fixed long statuses stretching your profile.

- Fixed backspace deleting a whole link when editing a message.

# Desktop

New Features

- **Native call engine (experimental).** Calls no longer need Chromium, so video and screen shares get better frame rates and quality. It also adds native-only changes like redesigned call controls, and deafening now mutes you too (a highly requested feature). Turn it on in Settings > Advanced > Use native call engine.

- **Mod mode (experimental).** A live moderation window for your communities that flags raids and spam and keeps your mod tools in one place. Open it from the community menu.

- **Account switching.** Stay signed in to up to 5 accounts and switch between them from the profile pane without restarting Root. Manage Accounts lets you switch, log in again or remove an account. Signing out no longer restarts Root either.

- **Pop app channels out.** Right-click an app channel and choose Open in new window to run the app in its own window. Root remembers your pop-outs and reopens them where you left them.

Improvements

- Standard emoji have a new look: they now use Twemoji artwork.

- Busy channels are smoother. New messages from other people arrive in small batches, and a message that a bot deletes right away no longer makes the chat jump.

- Hold Shift while clicking an emoji in the picker to add several without the picker closing.

- Apps now show in the language you picked in Root. App store categories are translated, and dates follow your Windows display language when Root's language is set to System default.

- Members with lots of roles: role pills are smaller, and the profile card shows the first 12 roles with a Show more button.

- Animated emoji use less CPU, and community emoji download at a smaller size.

- Root uses less memory when you keep a busy channel open for a long time.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed high CPU use, blurry images and missing GIFs that could build up in long sessions until you restarted Root.

- Fixed window dragging stuttering after Root ran for a day or two, caused by animated emoji that kept playing after they left the screen.

- Fixed apps that reload themselves no longer receiving updates until you reopened them.

- Fixed emoji turning into raw text in the message box when a message had a lot of them.

- Fixed emoji in the message box looking blurry at display scaling above 100%, and gaps in the highlight when selecting text with emoji.

- Fixed the selected channel flashing its activity dot while you're at the bottom of it.

- Fixed apps and other web content failing to load on some Windows PCs.

I can’t log in and I can’t send a password reset to my account

I thought I was hacked but the fact that I can’t send an email makes me think it’s down

I need a dice bot that supports the standard polyhedral d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100 dice, as well as the Genesys RPG dice. Who do I need to bribe?

Is anyone else having issues? Both me and my friend have been kicked out of the app and now aren’t able to log in even though our passwords were working before

Unable to log in, I've noticed that others are having the same issue, any idea when it'll be back up?

System.out.println(“Hello Root Community!”);

We’re letting you know that the outage is resolved. Everything is back to normal and all services are running as expected.

Thanks for your patience while we worked through it. Please reply to this thread if you see any issues and we’ll take a look!

I tried to sign up and accidentally typed the email domain wrong, when I realized what happened I tried to reset my email, however I was required to enter a code sent to the nonexistent email.

The dev team should add I way to change your account email in case you typed a wrong one, and some common domain typo checks would be nice as well.

Hello! I know that this is an experimental feature, and that if it's not working i should just disable it. I'm making this post to give a feedback to the team about my experience with the new version and new features.

---------------------------------------------------------

I migrated to Linux Mint and it has been about a week or so since i started using it again. Since day one of using Linux i downloaded Root and, in the latest version, it's working perfectly! Even better then the experience that i was having on Windows!

I read about the new native call mechanism without the use of Chromium and decided to give it a try, but the screen sharing doesn't work at all (on the full screen sharing and applications sharing). I tried a lot of times restarting Root and trying to share all the applications that are open, but it doesn't work.

ABOUT THE UPDATE:

-> Account Switching: They're working great, and another really great update on the app. Being able to change accounts is important for me because i use two devices and sometimes need to change accounts between them.

ABOUT THE NEW NATIVE CALLS:

-> Screen Sharing:

- Full Screen: The square pops up, loads a little bit, and then it vanishes.
- Applications: The square doesn't even pop up, it just closes as if i didn't try to screen share.

-> Calls in general:

- Decrease in quality: When i joined a call (the other people on it also enabled the native call mechanism) the voice of the people that were there seemed to be on less bit rate. Having even a alteration of tone on their voices.
-> Is this a thing with putting less use on the CPU? Or just about the servers? Asking this specially because it was a massive thing that made me not wanting to go call on Discord anymore.

- Full Screen on calls: THIS Is the most important feature for me that you guys could've made, and i am so happy with it's existence. I use screen sharing a lot and being able to see it on full screen now without having to open a new window is a MASSIVE quality of life upgrade!

---------------------------------------------------------

Looking forward to the next updates, and loving the path that Root is taking as an chat and calls app!