I spent about an hour looking through the Primal iOS code, and the code doesn’t match up with the reported behavior. The code adds a “reply” marker event tag before some “p” tags, but nowhere does it create a “root” marker event tag. createNostrReplyEvent code:

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primal-ios-app/Primal/Common/Nostr/NostrObject+Extra.swift at 3b1f2d13f261348ecdc219bc600043509d1d926d · PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app

Primal's iOS app for Nostr. . Contribute to PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

The current App Store version is 1.2.46 but what’s checked into GitHub is 1.2.30. The GitHub repository is 16 builds behind, so the backwards incompatible bug might have been introduced in one of those builds. App Store:

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GitHub repo version:

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primal-ios-app/Primal.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj at 3b1f2d13f261348ecdc219bc600043509d1d926d · PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app

Primal's iOS app for Nostr. . Contribute to PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

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