# Unread channel name is rendered "doubled"

**URL:** https://forum.mattermost.com/t/unread-channel-name-is-rendered-doubled/5979
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/unread-channel-name-is-rendered-doubled/5979 "2018-10-23T11:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![gubbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gubbins](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/gubbins)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/unread-channel-name-is-rendered-doubled/5979/1 "2018-10-23T11:37:19Z")

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#### Summary

For some users, names of channels with unread messages are incorrectly rendered in the side bar.

#### Steps to reproduce

Server 5.4.0  
Observed on Linux and macOS High Sierra with desktop client version 4.1.2 and also earlier  
Other required conditions unknown. Seems to have only started since upgrading from 5.2 to 5.4.

#### Expected behavior

Name of unread channel is bold

#### Observed behavior

Name of unread channel appears to show both bold and non-bold text superposed.  
Some examples attached (partially blacked out for privacy) from different themes. We have seen this for all types of channel.

![27%20pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mattermost/original/2X/6/652114fbd784ea4db2b6c22c6dc207aff4a25aa7.jpeg) ![43%20pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mattermost/original/2X/6/6d791d08b376a9eff9d8171d934b770ead13816a.png)

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### Author: ![gubbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gubbins](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/gubbins)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/unread-channel-name-is-rendered-doubled/5979/2 "2018-10-23T12:06:27Z")

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We think this only happens if the element is in view at the time the new message is received.

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### Author: ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/unread-channel-name-is-rendered-doubled/5979/3 "2018-10-23T12:23:47Z")

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Hi @gubbins,

We have a ticket for this here, which we tried but couldn’t yet fix before v5.4 release: [https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-12493](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-12493).