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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes to Android foldable support. Now that foldables will be more widely available across ios and android we’ll consider Android foldables as well when we build these experiences.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A vision for how @rootapp.com will support Duo. You'll have even more ways to experience communities on Root.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does anyone else notice anything different about Root here?

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As always, let me know if you have any feedback.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also fixed: sign-in verification failing after you sign out, screens getting stuck loading until you force-quit the app, settings resetting themselves, and the message box floating over blank space.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

From settings, you can now select several members at once to kick or ban them. Links in user bios are now parsed. You can navigate to a link in a user's bio from a new button in their user view.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The app now handles large communities better and stalls less during long sessions and in busy channels. Check the new Apps & Bots tab in notifications to see what community apps are up to.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Root mobile 0.9.32 is out. Here's what's new 🧵

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now available in production. Come use our new voice and video system on @rootapp.com today. I promise it’s better.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now available in production. Come use our new voice and video system on @rootapp.com today. I promise it’s better.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also fixed: better support for nested lists, steadier cursors, and co-working

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Users are now notified when a note is shared with them You can now share a link to a note with the copy link feature. Share this link anywhere to navigate to the note directly on both mobile and desktop

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Select any text in a note and leave a comment. Users can reply, resolve the thread, or reopen it later, and view-only readers can comment too.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Notes 0.1.91 is now available in @rootapp.com with a number of new updates centered around collaboration

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What call features do you want to see next on mobile?

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We've been working hard on this. Excited to bring this to you all!

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Excited to announce my Root App: Notes 📝✨ Collaborate instantly with your community. Co-edit, organize, and capture ideas together, right inside @rootapp.com. Built for speed, clarity, and seamless teamwork. Try Notes today! You can add it to your community from the Root App Store.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What features would you like to see? Comment below 👇

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More features coming soon! Stay tuned 🔜

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What features would you like to see? Comment below 👇

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

More features coming soon! Stay tuned 🔜

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As always, let us know if you have any feedback

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Root mobile 0.9.31 is out. Here's what's new 👇

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also fixed: the blank screen after signing in, the message composer going blank or dropping your keystrokes, in-call sounds on iOS, message edits losing line breaks, and Android reopening old channels when backgrounding and foregrounding.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lots of performance and stability improvements around text channels and DMs. We also tracked down a crash that hit about a second after launch. It had been there since version 0.9.15.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You can now copy a link to any message in a community channel and share it anywhere. Users can link directly to it if they have access.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Root mobile 0.9.31 is out. Here's what's new 👇

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We're working on a brand new voice/video system to improve call stability across the @rootapp.com Last week, Jesse and I just had our first successful video + screenshare call on the new service across iOS + Android + Windows 🧵

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today, we promoted the system up to our internal environment for team-wide testing. Few bugs go sort through but things are looking stable. You guys are gonna love this.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@rootapp.com mobile version 0.9.30 is out 🧵 Most of it went to improvements around what happens when you come back to the app. Channels and DMs now catch up on their own after time in the background

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also fixed: a leftover call notification starting a new call on Android, and links into your other communities showing raw ids instead of names.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Switching themes fades now instead of flipping (because why not). And the Android app installs about 11% smaller, 74.6MB down to 66.2MB.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The message actions sheet's quick reaction row used to be five fixed emojis. Now it's the ones you actually use, custom community emojis included, ranked so it reads like recents on day one and settles into your favorites. Emojis and avatars load faster and stop re-downloading themselves.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I love working on a team that’s pushing the boundaries of what online communities can do together. All from a single platform. We’re just getting started.

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Root @rootapp.com · 30/07/2026

Introducing… APP REVIEWS Your reviews go a long way: it helps your community install with confidence and hands developers the feedback they need to make their apps even better. These will be anonymous star ratings and the written reviews will only visible by app dev (for now)...

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Playing with GPUs in @reactnative.dev. Our badges are flat SVGs. This demo traces the outline, extrudes it into a mesh, renders it with WebGPU (@wcandillon.bsky.social's react-native-wgpu + @swmansion.com's TypeGPU), and engraves your @rootapp.com's username on the back.

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Adrian @adrianroot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Bots automate, but it’s apps that create experiences. As Root gets ready to launch our community developer program, I wanted to talk about why Root supports both Apps and Bots and how developers choose between them. You can read more here: www.rootapp.com/blogs/why-ro...

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Adrian @adrianroot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Root is launching our v1.0 developer program! We’re building it around 3 ideas: - Build in the open - Developers have a choice - Apps are community experiences I wrote more about DevRel at Root here: rootapp.com/blogs/announ... Now let’s build!

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Announcing Root’s Developer Program

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Quick trip with @adrianroot.bsky.social. Interested in how the Root team works? Ask me anything.

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now available in App Store in mobile version 0.9.21 You should see video stream quality either start crisp or scale quality up in seconds (network permitting). Let us know what you think!

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Root @rootapp.com · 18/06/2026

Root Sudo is HERE. With Sudo, members get HD streaming, a Sudo badge, and more benefits rolling out over time. Our founder Jesse wrote up what Sudo is and where it's headed. Read it here: www.rootapp.com/blogs/introd...

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Root @rootapp.com · 16/06/2026

heads up Root Community! we'll be upgrading our backend systems today at 2:00 PM PST expected downtime is approximately 15 minutes while we perform internal testing and infrastructure improvements. this is a backend-only update, so there are no changes to Root's features or user experience!

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This one came straight from your reports. They told me exactly where to look. Keep them coming!

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fixing it meant swapping out the video engine underneath the app for a newer build, then giving it a running start so the first few seconds aren't mud. I spent more time staring at bitrate logs than I'd like to admit (ask me about bandwidth estimators sometime).

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Spencer Taylor @spencertay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The culprit was the part of the engine that decides how much video your connection can handle. It was convinced your network was terrible no matter how fast it actually was. Every call on every device I tested got stuck at the same blurry rate.

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