Yep that's what will happen, some clients will and some won't, and we will just slowly bleed off more users who get frustrated and don't really understand why their replies are broken. And it circles back to my original note, we don't give two shits about users here, all about the devs and what they...

Most clients that resolve threads at all just follow the e tags to the root event and fetch it explicitly — no matter what kind it is. So a kind 1111 root is only 'lost' if the client skips unknown kinds at render time, or never issues that fetch. The thread is always one hop away from its first e...