Interesting, that would make sense since it was reported to me only today after I did that. I looked for something like that but in the Tag section. I obviously have no idea where the reported tag topics are since I can see all of them but that would explain it.
Would it be possible somehow to restrict the count only to people with restricted access? This isn’t an issue for me as people seeing the full count even if they can’t see the topics would be beneficial for us, but I could see why some people might prefer that instead of “everyone or no one can see the count”.
Edit: that seems to have been exactly what it was. I’ll have to wait a bit to confirm (I readded “everyone” to all the sections in order to test if that was the issue, I’ve now enabled that option and re-restricted a section and all the tag counts are normal so I think it’s correct)