It might be my misunderstanding, but...
I have an orange indicator suggesting I have (currently) 8 reviews to do, but my review queue is completely empty (all zeroes).
It's just me or is there something wrong?
There are many answers to this already, on every meta on S.E. In a nutshell, the indicator doesn't count how many are available for you specifically; just how many are in the queue, period. They say they can't make it smarter, even though it knows obviously when you go to that page.
This is because once you cross 10k rep -- the review counter in the statusbar changes to show the amount of reviews in-flight on the site as a whole. (I know, this seems to be one of the most confusing things that happens at 10k rep.)
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