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 were missing on all topics.
I once opened my browser tools to study what was happening. I noticed that the row was there, but the bad element was not in the HTML, indicating that the badge simply hadn’t been included in rendering the page.
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