I submitted a fix for the backwards incompatibility issue in Primal iOS. This should make new replies from Primal iOS display properly in Damus and other clients that are still using deprecated positional tags.
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: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app/blob/3b1f2d13f261348ecdc219bc600043509d1d926d/Primal/Common/Nostr/NostrObject%2BExtra.swift#L221-L226
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: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/primal/id1673134518
GitHub repo version: https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app/blob/3b1f2d13f261348ecdc219bc600043509d1d926d/Primal.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj#L2443
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