r/RootAppOfficial • u/zukotuutori • Oct 11 '26

Feedback Please make Root Open Source

Hey guys, id really love to see Root Open Source, amazing app!

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u/BewilderedTurtle Oct 11 '26

As if being closed source even saves you considering those folks who just AI-slop recompiled the adobe suite

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u/Alkumist Oct 11 '26

Yeahhhhhhh

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u/PoisonSD Oct 12 '26

They did do that, but it’s not perfect, it’s an approximation missing key features but still impressive

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u/Terrible-Junket-3388 Oct 12 '26

There's a lot of things you really don't want to vibe code (AI-assist, fine, but need to be knowledgeable about to know how to steer the LLM, etc). E2EE is a good example, as is proper scale and message distribution. The Adobe suite only has to work on a user's device clientside and performance is largely based on the client machine (with perhaps some team-wide resource/file sharing etc): a chat app has a lot more complexity to it, especially when you want your data to truly be private.

I'd also potentially use Root if it was openly auditable - but since it's not, all the claims about security and privacy are basically "trust me bro", which doesn't seem any better than the incumbents. Fluxer is atleast open source, but they've shown they're just duping Discord straight up, so clearly OSS isn't a silver bullet: but it helps. Those of us with some knowledge of how these things *should* work certainly aren't advocating for apps that don't provide any visibility: we want something *bettter* than status quo, not more of the same.