On crypto.SE I was recently greeted with the message:
"You've earned the "Enthusiast" badge. See your profile."
However, when I clicked the "profile" link in the message, I was sent to a page that listed a bunch of badges, but not Enthusiast. (It's pretty easy to tell, since Enthusiast is a silver badge, and all my previous badges were bronze.) I even managed to grab a screenshot (click to enlarge):
I know this is kind of a minor bug, but still, it amounts to the user interface behaving in an unexpected an inconsistent way. I thought I should at least bring it up here, so that the devs will be aware of it. Hopefully, there will be some really simple way to fix it.
Edit: As I kind of expected, the problem has fix itself while I was posting this, and the profile page is now showing the Enthusiast badge along with the rest of them. However, I'm pretty sure this is not the first time this has happened to me, so the time lag between the badge notification and the profile page updating itself seems to be a recurrent issue. (I suspect it wouldn't be quite so noticeable if the notification message didn't link directly to that profile page...)
Edit 2: It looks like this is a regression from this fix a few months ago, which changed the link in the notification message to point to the "badges" tab instead of the "activity" tab.
Basically, there seem to be two profile pages that both show your badges in descending order by time:
?tab=badges&sort=recent
, which the link currently points to, and which may be updated only after a delay, and?tab=activity&sort=badges
, which (presumably; I can't check this until I get some more badges) doesn't have a delay.
I'd like to suggest that the link in the notification message be changed to point to the latter instead of the former.
(It used to point to the ?tab=activity
page, but without the &sort=badges
bit, which meant that users who had previously selected an activity filter other than "all" or "badges" were taken to a page showing no badges at all. That's what the previous change, which accidentally introduced this delay issue, fixed.)