Update: Message delays have been resolved! Sending and receiving messages should be back to normal. Sorry again for the disruption while we worked through the kinks from yesterday's major upgrade. Thanks for your patience and for being a huge part of Root!

Heads up: some of you are seeing slow messages right now, both sending and receiving. We’re aware, and we’re sorry for the latency! We’re still working out the kinks from yesterday’s major upgrade! Thanks for your patience, and we’ll update once more as soon as things are back to normal!

print("Hello, Root!"); Things are starting to come back online! You should now be able to send messages, join voice chats, and use Root again. Some of our first party apps are still experiencing issues, and we're working on getting those resolved. We'll keep you updated as things improve and let you know when everything is back to normal. Thank you for your patience while we work through this! print(“Bye, Root!");

Update on the service interruption: Things are taking longer than expected to resolve. Our team is still working on it, and we'll share another update as soon as everything is back online! Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the disruption.

CHANGE LOG FOR OCT 26 2026

Major update going live tomorrow: Tuesday, October 27, 9:00-11:00 AM PST Root will be offline for up to 2 hours while we roll out a significant backend upgrade. This update unlocks a lot of new capabilities and is a major milestone for what we’re building next. Check the image to learn more!

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!

We are aware of the current outage and are currently investigating. We’ll keep you up to date. Sorry for the inconvenience.

DISCORD IS CHARGING YOU $16 FOR POOP 😭 At Root? We believe in NO PAYWALLS ON PERSONALITY. Animated PFPs, Animated Banners, Community personalization, Profile Customization, Custom emojis to be used everywhere. ALL FREE on ROOT. Hundreds of thousands of users are joining us on Root, don’t be shy, come join us at rootapp.com/download and make new friends and new communities today! #Customization #Free #Alternative #Discord #Features

Discord rolled out a global age-verification system in early 2026 that defaults unverified users to a teen experience and sparked major security concerns due to a past third-party data breach Discord also rolled out an automated age estimation and verification system that has experienced several known bugs, including misclassifying adult accounts as teens, inconsistent status mismatches across devices, and verification prompts looping or failing to complete. #funfacts At Root, We have Animated Profile pictures, Animated Banners, Themes, Profile Customization, Custom emojis to be used everywhere. ALL FREE on ROOT.

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 #Discord #Alternative #ID #Leak

JESSE (Root’s Creator) CARES! Part 2 Here’s a video on what we released FROM your comments / feedback... hint: OG USERNAMES Have any other features or ideas? Comment below and we hope to work on it next! At Root, Animated PFPs, Animated Banners, Community personalization, Profile Customization, Custom emojis to be used everywhere. ALL FREE on ROOT. Tens of thousands of users are joining us on Root, don’t be shy, come join us at rootapp.com/download and make new friends and new communities today! #Discord #Alternative #Features #Feedback #Mobile

Root Devs after reading 3 million of these comments

MY TOP 5 REASONS WHY I’M SWITCHING TO ROOT! Watch the video and find out! #profile #Customization #free #Discord #Alternative

I CAN’T CONVINCE MY FRIENDS TO SWITCH :((((

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING… The ad-pocalypse is coming, Discord just leaked 70,000 IDs, they use some jank AI to age gate you out of your own servers! At Root, We have Animated Profile pictures, Animated Banners, Themes, Profile Customization, Custom emojis to be used everywhere. ALL FREE on ROOT.

 Move your community over to root in 1 quick click with Server template transfer too! Hundreds of thousands of users are joining us, don’t be shy, come join us at rootapp.com/download and make new friends and new communities today! 
 #Discord #Alternative #ID #leak #friends

Hello World! The intermittent issues affecting Root have been resolved! Thanks for your patience while we worked on the resolution!

Important Root Announcement We’re aware of intermittent issues affecting Root and are actively investigating! We’re working to resolve them as quickly as possible and will share updates here as we learn more. Thanks for your patience <3

DISCORD CAN’T COMPETE WITH APPS ON ROOT 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Command block is your whole Minecraft server LIVING in your community (a companion app) player statuses, chat relay, inventory management and console chat.. all on the command block app channel! More and more people are joining to see the potential behind Root.. don’t be shy, come join us at rootapp.com/download and make new friends and new communities today! #CommandBlock #Minecraft #Companion #Discord #Alternative

DISCORD HATES US… Why are they charging $100 for animated banners, profile pictures, and so much more!? At Root we got your back! Animated PFPs, Animated Banners, Community personalization, Profile Customization, Custom emojis to be used everywhere. ALL FREE on ROOT. Tens of thousands of users are joining us on Root, don’t be shy, come join us at rootapp.com/download and make new friends and new communities today! #profile #Customization #free #Discord #Alternative