diff --git a/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb b/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
index 8471b20c0..44dc0f604 100644
--- a/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 class NotificationsController < ApplicationController
   def index
-    set_page_and_extract_portion_from Current.user.notifications.read.ordered
-
-    if @page.first?
+    unless current_page_param
       @unread = Current.user.notifications.unread.ordered
     end
 
+    set_page_and_extract_portion_from Current.user.notifications.read.ordered
+
     respond_to do |format|
       format.turbo_stream if current_page_param # Allows read-all action to side step pagination
       format.html