Browser back button has surprising behavior on topic lists / unread

loren (Loren Smith) March 25, 2020, 8:05pm 5

Reproducing appears to be intermittent on both meta and our gated community.

Topic		Replies	Views
Hitting the back button from a topic shows the unread count even when not tracking topic Bug	3	515	July 15, 2022
Bottom of topic shows "There is 1 unread remaining" when there are actually 0 unread topics remaining Bug	29	3092	November 5, 2025
When opening a previously visited topic, sometimes the number of unread posts is showing (even when not tracking the topic) Bug	3	183	February 4, 2025
Topic stays in unread state despite being read Bug	1	1461	January 30, 2016
Unread tab does not update after reading Bug	40	2864	September 27, 2019