# Accurate topic count in tag list

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/accurate-topic-count-in-tag-list/145989>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [March 28, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accurate-topic-count-in-tag-list/145989 "2020-03-28T22:35:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![syl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/syl/32/98883_2.png) [@syl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/syl)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accurate-topic-count-in-tag-list/145989/11 "2020-08-26T08:08:57Z")

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> [@tshenry](#):
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> This I cannot reproduce. If I have a tag that has **only** been used on a PM or a topic in a restricted category, a user without access to those topics does not see the tag included in the tag list.

Sorry for the confusion, I was talking about the tag count. Here is how to reproduce the issue:

1. As an admin, create a topic with no category and with a new tag  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/d/3d9366980463ac9ec045a324f8f298459fe597e1.png)
2. As an admin, create another topic with the same tag and belonging to a restricted category  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/0/104df80f468308ed45e4ea4aaa1842bfb6dec8b3.png)
3. As a normal user, go to the `test-tag` tag and check that you can see only one topic  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/1/b16d31ebd85ea35b72be2ee566991ca7df32963e.png)
4. But in the tag list, the tag count shows 2  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/3/d38acebfdc7614aeef8872c668e4576f7bcb8537.png)

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