Erroneous "added a comment" message in feed

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See the following observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41740792
Today bob777 added a confirming ID, but this shows up in my feed: image

The comment was added months back. Shouldn’t the feed say “bob777 added an ID?”

I have seen this same thing many times with different observations recently.

This is a known bug that has to do with mentions, see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wrong-notification-displayed-old-mention/13824/17

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