# BUG: Tracking sometimes temporarily set on topics **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 15, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-tracking-sometimes-temporarily-set-on-topics/944286 "2021-06-15T00:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-tracking-sometimes-temporarily-set-on-topics/944286/1 "2021-06-15T00:19:33Z")
Although I have tracking for threads turned off in my preferences, I have lately been sometimes seeing those gray and blue circles with numbers in them for one topic (thread) in a particular category (forum, e.g. ATMB). When I refresh the page, these numbers go away, even though I do not visit the topic. This seems an odd course of events. I would expect that, since I have that option turned off, I would never be set to following a thread in the first place. But it seems it is being set, and then the refresh then remembers that my preferences. No matter what the cause, this seems to be a bug. It seems, in fact, to be a regression, as I’ve only seen it happening or less than a week, at most. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-tracking-sometimes-temporarily-set-on-topics/944286/2 "2021-06-20T21:59:29Z")
I noticed something else: the numbers are generally wrong. For example, there aren’t 1 new post and 3 unread old posts in the McDonald’s app thread: I read the whole thing before my post, which is currently the last one. In fact, I think the issue usually involves a thread I’ve posted in, and it’s giving me numbers from some point before I posted. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bug-tracking-sometimes-temporarily-set-on-topics/944286/3 "2021-06-22T08:10:30Z")
Not just bumping, I promise. I have more info: It seems to also specifically keep happening with this one thread, which I have never opened: > [@What is the best multi-day train trip now available?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-multi-day-train-trip-now-available/944785): > > I am talking service, scenery, comfort etc., not just in the U.S., but worldwide.