Is there any update on this?
Having my notifications cluttered with badges every day is slowly becoming really annoying. Especially since I have to click on each one to mark them as read, even though they all link to the same thing.
I start to feel happy when there are 5 or fewer, because then I can see a few other notifications at the same time, and marking them as read doesn’t take that much time.
Now, 3 weeks later, I have 155. That’s almost 6 badges a day on average. It’s draining.
If investigating what changed and is now triggering these badges isn’t feasible in the short term, would it be possible to disable the badge on Meta as a workaround?
Edit 2025-12-19T23:00:00Z I think today’s 15 badges are a new record.
Edit2: 2025-12-20T23:00:00Z 20 
