I have a weird problem with the unread chat badges, I don't quite understand. Here a typical sequences of events:

- the chat icon on the top right shows me that there are new messages in the tavern. 

- I click on it, go to the tavern and the message counter vanished. So far so go. 

- I continue browsing some questions for a bit and the counter stays away. 

- I leave

- I come back 10 minutes later and the unread chat messages shows again the same number of unread messages as when I last visited the page, but upon clicking it there are no new messages in the chat room

Some observations:

- This seems not a one-time problem, I repeated this a couple of times. 

- This happened in two meta rooms I have in my chat list, it did not happen for rooms at toptex, which also had messages in the mean time. There the counter stayed away after visiting them once

- When I post a message myself, this seems to permanently remove the "ghost notifications" for this chat room, not for the other rooms

- like [@PeterVandivier](https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=1&id=14094&year=2020#c14094) I first thought this was my fault for messing with different tabs, but today I tried to do everything in only a single tab

Any ideas what causes this or how to avoid?