This happened to me back in December with this blog post: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/103206-inaturalist-and-karma-a-new-way-to-support-biodiversity
I commented on the post which subscribed me. But after getting a half dozen or so notifications of subsequent comments, I realized I wasn’t really interested in the conversation so I unsubscribed (or unfollowed, whichever the case may be).
But comments to that post kept cropping up in my notifications. I double checked that I had unfollowed and I had. The comments kept showing up at the top of my notifications and I finally realized that it was not the most current comment that had been made on the post. It was, I suspect, the last comment fed to me before I unfollowed. What I think was happening was, every time a new post was made, that final ‘legit’ comment (that came while I was still subscribed) was getting bumped up to the top of my feed.
The final time it appeared, my feed showed that comment with a date of Dec 17 following notifications of id suggestions that were made on Dec 19.
They finally stopped. Either the bug worked itself out or maybe people just stopped commenting. :-)
Edit to add in case it helps. I know that comment I referred to above got bumped to the top of my feed at least three times, possibly more. But it seems (checking now) that each time it bumped to the top, its previous presence in my feed disappeared. So it was more ‘cut and paste’ rather than ‘copy and paste’. And, I can’t find it at all before Dec 19 so any original Dec 17 notification I might have gotten is not currently in my feed amongst others I got on Dec 17.
edit to add:
Yes, the posts only show up on the dashboard and not in the notifications icon.
If I am understanding the terminology correctly, this was my case also I believe (memory serving me). It showed up in the readable list of notifications but it did not show up as a notification in the red comment icon at the top right (desktop computer accessing website)
2nd edit to add:
I just did some more digging. I don’t see where I can determine the exact last time this comment appeared at the top of my notifications feed. Remembering that it was dated Dec 17, it can currently be found after a notification for an ID suggestion on Dec 19 and before a notification for a project blog post (unrelated to this issue) made on Dec 20, 2024 at 09:10 (my time -06:00). It looks like the most recent comment on the KARMA blog post (which is the buggy one) was made on Dec 20, 20204 at 02:22 (again, my time). So, if we wanted to test this bug, someone could make a comment on the KARMA post (link above) and I could see if it bumps that repeating comment in my feed.
