# Tracker Counts include deleted
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727 "2022-02-01T18:08:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727/1 "2022-02-01T18:08:54Z")
Small thing, but I noticed that the tracker counts include deleted posts. Eg. This one says there are 250 Unread posts, but actually there’s only 1:
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### Author:  [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727/2 "2022-02-01T18:17:42Z")
> [@Number of unread replies is different than number of topic replies due to reply deletions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/number-of-unread-replies-is-different-than-number-of-topic-replies-due-to-reply-deletions/142244/2):
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> We have had this reported a few times before, it is fiendishly hard to fix. If a large number of posts are deleted then unread count is artificially incredibly high. We could I guess do a client fix that caps numbers but it just replaces imperfect with more imperfect. Problem with counting deleted replies is that there is no cheap way of do it. You may have read 17 of the 32 deleted replies.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727/3 "2022-02-01T18:30:30Z")
I was too excited that I remembered to grab a screenshot this time that I rushed it and forgot to do a proper search. Doh! 🤦♂️🙂
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracker-counts-include-deleted/216727/4 "2022-02-01T18:51:23Z")