I took two screenshots which I can’t attach here. I sometimes see topics without a category badge. When I edit the topic (I can because it’s either my own topic or I am TL3 or TL4) I see that the category has been assigned, but the badge is just not being displayed. I am seeing it right now on this …

One explanation for the topic list is that we suppress the badge when you’re filtered to a specific category: [Screen Shot 2021-01-29 at 4.51.31 PM] Though going missing within a topic and one or two at a time on the topic list leads me to believe it’s not that… [image] Meteor0id: I am seein…

[missing feature badge 2] [Category badge missing]

I’ve actually seen this bug before @awesomerobot , so technically I can repro. I was wondering why some topics would be randomly missing their category badge.. It’s kind of devilish to repro, but I remember it happening in Suggested Topics and thinking “hmm, that’s really odd”

[image] Meteor0id: I have in the past also see it happen to all badges of a particular category In that case I was viewing a category which had subcategories. Normally one would see the listed topics with all the badges of the subcategories as well in this overview, but all category badges we…

Excellent – if you can get repro steps, we can nail this down and fix it. I agree it is definitely happening sometimes.

[image] codinghorror: if you can get repro steps, we can nail this down and fix it. How do you expect that to happen? I’ve been seeing this bug for over a year and I have no clue how to reproduce it. Here is a screenshot of what may happen to a category page, it should be showing category ba…

[image] Meteor0id: I’ve been seeing this bug for over a year Oh wow over a year. I’ve only noticed it recently. [image] Meteor0id: I have no clue how to reproduce it. Not singling you out, apologies if it came across that way – but the key to fixing any bug is to have a consistent set…

[image] codinghorror: Oh wow over a year. I’ve only noticed it recently. I can confirm, over a year. Never reported it as I couldn’t get a good repro.

I was able to get a sort of repro on our internal Discourse instance. Unfortunately I can’t post about it here since it has a bunch of private data in the screenshots, but I have a definite repro – and it repros even in the topic itself, that is, if you click through to the topic it looks like it ha…

Category badges go missing at random

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) February 1, 2021, 2:19am 5

I’ve also seen it, and like Jeff have never found a consistent repro.

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Category badges go missing at random

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