diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/actions/notifications.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/actions/notifications.js
index b44469cf4..ccc427c29 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/actions/notifications.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/actions/notifications.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import compareId from 'flavours/glitch/util/compare_id';
 import { searchTextFromRawStatus } from 'flavours/glitch/actions/importer/normalizer';
 
 export const NOTIFICATIONS_UPDATE = 'NOTIFICATIONS_UPDATE';
+export const NOTIFICATIONS_UPDATE_NOOP = 'NOTIFICATIONS_UPDATE_NOOP';
 
 // tracking the notif cleaning request
 export const NOTIFICATIONS_DELETE_MARKED_REQUEST = 'NOTIFICATIONS_DELETE_MARKED_REQUEST';
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/components/notification.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/components/notification.js
index 7b80c2228..bd415856c 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/components/notification.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/components/notification.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export default class Notification extends ImmutablePureComponent {
     cacheMediaWidth: PropTypes.func,
     cachedMediaWidth: PropTypes.number,
     onUnmount: PropTypes.func,
+    unread: PropTypes.bool,
   };
 
   render () {
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
index 7820f524f..67725b902 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
@@ -138,16 +138,16 @@ const updateTop = (state, top) => {
     state = clearUnread(state);
   }
 
-  return state.set('top', top);
+  return state;
 };
 
 const deleteByStatus = (state, statusId) => {
-  const top = !(shouldCountUnreadNotifications(state));
-  if (!top) {
+  if (shouldCountUnreadNotifications(state)) {
     const lastReadId = state.get('lastReadId');
     const deletedUnread = state.get('items').filter(item => item !== null && item.get('status') === statusId && compareId(item.get('id'), lastReadId) > 0);
     state = state.update('unread', unread => unread - deletedUnread.size);
   }
+
   const helper = list => list.filterNot(item => item !== null && item.get('status') === statusId);
   const deletedUnread = state.get('pendingItems').filter(item => item !== null && item.get('status') === statusId && compareId(item.get('id'), lastReadId) > 0);
   state = state.update('unread', unread => unread - deletedUnread.size);