Here on Meta, my topic list says Latest (1) and New (1), but I don’t have any new topics on my list. Going to /new says that there are no new topics. It’s very annoying, since I’ve read all the topics. It started happening since yesterday, I think.

Well, it seems like the topic comes from #documentation . That’s a big help. [This image depicts a screenshot of a mobile app showing a list of categories on a dark background. (Captioned by AI)]

Do the numbers stay after a reload of the site?

Yes, it does. It also doesn’t reset after I read an actual unread topic.

Something like this happens to me all the time, on multiple discourse sites (not just Meta). It’s a bit like the experience with Gmail, where you can delete a message (or take some other action) and it’s not reflected in the UI until you reload, sometimes reload multiple times. I ascribe it to hitting a different load-balanced server every time from a pool which synchronizes only “lazily”. Yes, super annoying but it seems it’s how we should expect sites to “work” now :frowning: – Ian

Does it go away after a while or will it remain forever?

For me, it always resolves eventually. In a way that makes it even more annoying because I can see how it can be argued it’s not a bug.

Seems fixed now after I read the Plugin tutorial Part 1 topic. It appeared in my /new, as unread. Oh well, it’s fixed now.

Latest (1) and New (1) even though there are no more unread and new topics

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) November 22, 2024, 8:00am 7

I see. It’s infuriating, because even a log out and log in doesn’t solve the issue.

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New and Unread Topic Lists Disappeared! Bug	2	634	April 30, 2019
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Latest (1) and New (1) even though there are no more unread and new topics

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