# Multiple badge notifications when there should be only one

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** badges, notifications
**Created:** [August 2, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986 "2025-08-02T10:24:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986/1 "2025-08-02T10:24:21Z")

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I’ve got the Nice Share badge on several consecutive occasions on my forum.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/f/5/8f57982191f990f862bcae1c48e7b3f2fcc146af.png)

The problem is that each time I get a new notification for this badge, it also sends duplicates unread notifications that, I think, are equal to the number of the previous (successive?) identical badges I got.

The last notifications I got were yesterday, and when opening the notification panel, there were 3 unread “Nice Share” notifications where there should be only one (previous ones were already read):

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/b/f/1bf3601bb232ee9e5c7de29da18800b3cc472e23.png)

Additional info: the notification number on the avatar, not shown on the screenshot, was 1, not 3.

Current Discourse version is 3.5.0.beta7-dev ([0dc01d55fd](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/0dc01d55fd78c34785ba16148d884dd28b32cd36)) and this issue has been going on for a while.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986/2 "2025-08-02T10:34:20Z")

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I think @satonotdead is having the same issue: [Issue with disabling badge repetition](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-with-disabling-badge-repetition/370948)

I haven’t been able to repro yet, but I think maybe I was looking in the wrong place.

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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986/3 "2025-08-02T10:36:44Z")

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Thanks James (hi! :blob-wave-reverse:). I’ve used the search but couldn’t find it, using the wrong keywords.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-badge-notifications-when-there-should-be-only-one/376986/4 "2025-08-02T10:40:03Z")

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No worries, I wasn’t trying to cast shame on your search skills. 🙂 I’m also not 100% sure it’s exactly the same issue, but it sounded similar enough to link up and see if any extra info from either could help to pin anything down. 🤞