we were only counting users active in the last 6 months (based on lemmys active user stats) for this calculation. with the update to lemmy 0.19 back in march 2FA for all existing users was reset, so all users that had 2fa set up before and never reactivated it wouldn't count towards this, nor would users that weren't active at all since then.
I believe I found the root cause, as you have configured your account not to show bot accounts.
the lemmy version used on lemmy.world does not currently filter those out, even though they are not shown in the actual message view.
this was fixed for a newer lemmy version already, but it should be a rather simple backport.
i've put it on my list of potential backports.
meanwhile you can try enabling showing bot accounts in your account settings and you should see all those messages. feel free to disable it again afterwards.
We'll never login to your account and never ask you for your password.
We can check these things in a different way, but it would save time to just have this information provided by you, so we can see which area to look at. The notification number in the top right takes 3 different numbers as inputs and only shows the sum of all of them, and each one of them has different logic working behind it.
There is only a single link. If you're currently using an app you might need to do this from a browser.
if you visit https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user/unread_count (in a signed-in session) you can see where these numbers are coming from.
if you could share these numbers in a pm to me i can take a look at where the difference may be coming from.
it would also be useful which 2 messages you are seeing, at least the type of them (pm, mention, reply).
2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn't reactivate it on their own since.
There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.
edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967
2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn't reactivate it on their own since.
There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.
edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967
2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn't reactivate it on their own since.
There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.
edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967
this is a separate issue unrelated to the 0.19 update.
this was not a Lemmy bug.
This was unfortunately an error on our end.
Please bear with us while we work on resolving this situation.
no, the join was bad