Ditto … It’s a bit strange
FWIW When I had a little look into this I also noticed that a lot of them appeared to be from links shared in posts within the forum itself, rather than anything I’d shared on another site.
I managed a tentative repro by long-pressing on an eligible link in an onsite post on my iphone (eg https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anything-changed-on-what-qualifies-for-the-nice-share-badge/385296/23?u=jammydodger) and the ‘preview’ did create an incoming link record with no domain info attached. I was wondering if this could be similar to how bot traffic is currently accessing the site and possibly bypassing the host check?
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Mine is more of a slow dribble, but still a little vexing. 
To maybe push this further out on a limb… could this be a ‘null’ thing, where the bots/pseudo visits aren’t generating a host value and ‘null’ doesn’t equal the site and so it passes the host test?
I’m getting about a Nice Share badge a day for a few days, and received 2 today. Though this seems milder than some others here, thought I’d just mention it.
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I was quite happy today that I only had to click on 5 badge notifications. Compared to the 10 yesterday, it felt like almost nothing.
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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 
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I would recommend going through the replies and likes, then just clicking Dismiss.
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That would mean I will miss notifications about solutions, edits, other badges, and everything else that is grouped in that notification tab.
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I’ve had a spate of these too, relating to old posts linking to other posts here on Meta. I thought it was a new badge!
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Yeah I think we have to do this. One big problem I discovered with the implementation is that there is no verification on whether a user actually shared the link. The application will accept the username param as long as it is present and associate it to the corresponding user. @nat also recently notified me about getting awarded badges on posts she has never shared before.
I’m looking right now to see if disabling the sharing badges are straightforward but I have a feeling it isn’t since those are system badges.
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It seems that it counts posts that you have linked to, even within the forum.
For example, I was awarded it for How to integrate Discourse Gamification with an external system (redeem and award points) - #14 by Falco, but I linked to it in Cost points to access certain rewards - #2 by NateDhaliwal.
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You should be able to disable it from its badge page even though it’s a system badge.
I think this is too widespread to be griefing. They all seem to be awarded for onsite sharing.
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Thanks for the tip! I don’t really have much context about how badges are working right now so this was really helpful.
I’ve disabled the Nice Share, Good Share and Great Share badges on meta for now.
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Thanks - it was getting a bit silly. I was receiving badges for stuff I couldn’t remember reading, much less sharing.
I notice that any existing “nice share” notifications now lead to a 404, so there might be some puzzlement from folks processing their notifications after being away for a while.
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I think clicking them still works to mark the notification as read. I don’t think it’s only about users who have been away for a while. I have 52 (=20+32) notifications from the past 2 days!
Yeah, that’s the pattern I described in the first post I wrote in October. I still don’t think it’s limited to Meta, but somehow it’s gotten way worse here, especially in the past few days. You can also spot badges where the post was linked in another post in the forum, and the author of that post received a nice share badge. This one Motley Fool Community could be an example. (I cannot say for sure because I don’t know if the user also shared the post elsewhere, but I can say for sure that they linked the post in their post). I am sure that I didn’t share the post on the other forum where I received the badge, and another user there who received a few was also surprised to receive the badge.
Perhaps instead of checking exactly where the link was clicked, it would be easier to simply avoid sharing links within the forum. The username could be automatically removed when saving a post if it is a link within the forum.
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