Random string in category name

After setting up a fresh development environment recently, I’ve encountered a strange behaviour and was wondering if anyone knows what this is. I’m seeing a random string being appended to category names and tags:

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FWIW I’ve seen this a few times as well. Never found the cause so far.

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A couple of days ago someone reported having a random icon to the left of a category or topic title. I’ll look and see if I can find which post it was.

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Could it be random third party plugin related?

It was a fresh install (no plugins) of Discourse on a localhost. It’s probably got something to do with my local environment.

It is likely coming from here:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/fa52ed3b168dd42762b8e27c7eca4e003d8bc720/lib/seed_data/categories.rb#L138-L146

Maybe seed was running concurrently on local?

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Ah that must be it :+1:. I must have had duplicate seed data somehow.

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