# New / Unread counts missing when "too many tracked topics"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 4, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922 "2015-09-04T18:37:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-unread-counts-missing-when-too-many-tracked-topics/32922/3 "2015-09-04T18:56:44Z")

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Intentional – the numbers you get back would be invalid anyway due to the warning you see.

I asked @sam if he could change it to show `New (*)` and `Unread (*)` to more clearly indicate the weird state but he said it would be a lot of work, and we already have the notification, so…

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