To ask what is the purpose of the Roon forum. I assume there are multiple purposes — tech support, marketing, creating a community around the product, collection of feedback, etc. But one of them may not be open expression. And that I think threatens the feeling of community.
I refer specifically to the closing of the Folder Browsing thread. I’ll repeat what I have said many times, being that I would not benefit much personally from the implementation of folder browsing. People may differ on opinions as to the desirability of this as a feature, and clearly do. My point in participating in the thread was that I felt as a matter of principle that many on the anti-side were stifling useful dialog and I also do feel that Roon should as a general matter be more of an open standards application as regards work done in curating one’s collection.
I was shocked and saddened to see that the thread was locked. Feels like a method of suppressing the conversation, and, being marked with “[Not on the Roadmap”] as a kind of victory lap.
In addition to this feeling like a bit of a gag order, there were continuing legitimate uses for this thread, including the trading of ideas regarding work-arounds, etc. Locking the thread guarantees another will open anyway, since someone unaware of the continuing debate will post the request anyway.
Maybe there is a legitimate purpose and policy behind this action. But I would ask the moderators and the Roon team to be careful with such decisions, as they can send unintended messages. Unless that message was intended?