[Agaton-Vangstad]

What

Adds Root to Community → private alternatives, as an alternative to Discord, Guilded and Slack.

• data/apps.json: { "id": "root", "name": "Root" }
• public/app-logos/root.jpg: 200×200 JPEG, 5 KB, no transparency, padded. It's the official wordmark from rootapp.com, in white on a dark background.

Why Root

Root is a new community platform (2025–2026) with voice, video, text chat, docs, tasks and an app platform. It's built by an independent startup, not big tech. Its privacy policy states:

• "Root does not sell user data to third parties and does not use user data or content to train artificial intelligence models."
• "None of your personal information is sold or shared with third parties for marketing purposes."
• "Messages, pictures, and files are stored ONLY so that recipients can receive them and users can access their message history."

Limitations

• Traffic is encrypted with TLS, but the policy does not claim end-to-end encryption.
• Root Communications, Inc. is US-based and stores data in the US. It isn't open source or self-hostable.

I think it fits next to other newer Discord alternatives in this category, as a step away from big-tech platforms. Happy to move it, or to drop it, if it doesn't meet the bar. Others are welcome to check its privacy claims.

Checks

• data/apps.json is valid JSON, the id is unique in its bucket, and every catalog id still has a logo.
• root.jpg is a real JPEG, 200×200, under 50 KB.
• I couldn't run npm run catalog:validate locally (no Node.js), so I ran the same checks by hand.

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