Roon isn't stable and they edit their forum to hide it


I just had to post this somewhere, and their moderators won't allow it on the Roon forum.  Just so people know, it is not an open forum when it comes to comments about Roon or its stability.  

Their moderators edit and delete posts.  It can get a little Orwellian.  

There are users that have identified severe resource leaks or situations where the Roon software pegs a single core in a CPU until Roon has to restart, causing drop-outs in audio as well as very slow responsiveness.  

The moderators must all be severe fanboys.  

Take it for what it's worth.  I just want potential users to understand they may not get the most complete picture by reviewing the Roon forum.  And sure, I understand that moderators moderate.  When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. 

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Equally, when you're the one who encounters a problem, it looks like it's a terrible coding job, whereas you may be running into some kind of platform-specific edge case. Unfortunately no software is completely free of bugs. I hate running into bugs, and I hope that the ones affecting you are fixed soon.

By the way, what platform are you using to run the Core?

Many of us use Roon for months and months without ever needing to restart the Core. In my case, running ROCK on a small dedicated PC (NUC), I think I've restarted (aside from updates) once or twice in three or four years.

Hmmm.

 

Their moderators edit and delete posts.  It can get a little Orwellian. 

@mike_in_nc I agree with you.  I've used Roon for 4 years with a cheap PC (NUC).  I've certainly had to restart it more than once or twice but I've never had any serious issues or problems that weren't resolved with a simple restart.  Asserting that Roon isn't stable in any general sense is almost certainly untrue, but that doesn't mean any given user's configuration might not be causing problems.  In my case I have an external hard drive that periodically needs to be attached to a PC in order to be "repaired".  I doubt that is an issue with Roon but I am sure some users might view it that way.  Given how insanely complicated Roon must be, and the amazing functionality it provides, I think it is understandable that the "moderators" are (overly?) zealous about censoring posts they might view as slanderous.

I have never used Roon.  That said, if this issue may be more configuration related than Roon service related, might that fact be an excellent discussion on Roon’s forum?