I got a notification that I earned “good topic”but the most recent good topic I see is from October.
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I’ve seen something similar, where I got the blue notification counter on my avatar but no actual notification in the list.
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Without reproduction steps, there’s not much we can do unfortunately 
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In case it’s not clear. I’m talking about here on meta. I don’t know how to replicate. 
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Interestingly, I didn’t get any notifications for replies on this post.
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It can happen when someone likes your topic, you cross the Good Topic target, but then someone removes the like.
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That’s sad. 
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Which topic was it? I’ll give you that gratification again.
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That’s just it! I don’t know. I guess it’s the one with 24 likes. 
Nice edit, @codinghorror!
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