this is driving me nuts today
I keep my latest topics unread pretty clear, but i caught this one before i clicked
as you can see the bottom one.. activity april 24, but somehow now says i have unread actions in it
really? every day ive been on this forum .. and yet today it picks to tell me theres something here i havent read?
I had the same issue today. It also happened on this topic, which was edited by “system” just to add a number at the end of the title, for what purpose I don’t know: Problem with Rigidbody2D (922659)
I will say a lot of them have had added numbers, but, not all. I fell for one and added to it, what makes it more frustrating is normally stuff is closed, its like its tagging them instead of closing them
Ditto… two or three days now.
Looks like maybe someone vibe coded something in the forum code and failed to test it.
Maybe ping @Brach_Unity considering they handle the forums.
Ill investigate
Hey folks. Good catch on this, and thanks for flagging it.
We dug into the backend to see what triggered this wave of zombie topics. During our ongoing platform migration audits, we discovered a large batch of duplicate topic titles. Duplicate titles cause severe routing and canonical link issues. To make them unique, we ran a backend script to append the original topic IDs to the end of the titles (which explains the random six-digit numbers you are seeing).
The unintended consequence? This caused the system to update the active timestamp, bumping years-old conversations to the top of your “Latest” feed and triggering unread indicators.
The script should end soon we had 40 or so to go when I saw this post ( there was 36k of them when we started ) . The engineering team is working out how to adjust the parameters so any future data cleanups happen silently in the background without polluting your feeds.
Apologies for ruining your inbox zero. Let me know if you see any more of these pop up after today.
Thanks @Brach_Unity you’re our man as always.. <3
