diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/scrollable_list.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/scrollable_list.js
index 5f42bdd8b3..7c0b6d0829 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/scrollable_list.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/scrollable_list.js
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ export default class ScrollableList extends PureComponent {
     const someItemInserted = React.Children.count(prevProps.children) > 0 &&
       React.Children.count(prevProps.children) < React.Children.count(this.props.children) &&
       this.getFirstChildKey(prevProps) !== this.getFirstChildKey(this.props);
-    if (someItemInserted && (this.node.scrollTop > 0 || this.mouseMovedRecently)) {
+    const pendingChanged = (prevProps.numPending > 0) !== (this.props.numPending > 0);
+
+    if (pendingChanged || someItemInserted && (this.node.scrollTop > 0 || this.mouseMovedRecently)) {
       return this.node.scrollHeight - this.node.scrollTop;
     } else {
       return null;
@@ -228,6 +230,13 @@ export default class ScrollableList extends PureComponent {
   handleLoadPending = e => {
     e.preventDefault();
     this.props.onLoadPending();
+    // Prevent the weird scroll-jumping behavior, as we explicitly don't want to
+    // scroll to top, and we know the scroll height is going to change
+    this.scrollToTopOnMouseIdle = false;
+    this.lastScrollWasSynthetic = false;
+    this.clearMouseIdleTimer();
+    this.mouseIdleTimer = setTimeout(this.handleMouseIdle, MOUSE_IDLE_DELAY);
+    this.mouseMovedRecently = true;
   }
 
   render () {
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/community_timeline/index.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/community_timeline/index.js
index cb7d72c534..11b67fa6a4 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/community_timeline/index.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/community_timeline/index.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const mapStateToProps = (state, { onlyMedia, columnId }) => {
   const index = columns.findIndex(c => c.get('uuid') === uuid);
 
   return {
-    hasUnread: state.getIn(['timelines', `community${onlyMedia ? ':media' : ''}`, 'unread']) > 0,
+    hasUnread: state.getIn(['timelines', `community${onlyMedia ? ':media' : ''}`, 'unread']) > 0 || state.getIn(['timelines', `community${onlyMedia ? ':media' : ''}`, 'pendingItems']).size > 0,
     onlyMedia: (columnId && index >= 0) ? columns.get(index).getIn(['params', 'other', 'onlyMedia']) : state.getIn(['settings', 'community', 'other', 'onlyMedia']),
   };
 };
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/index.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/index.js
index bd1af97a99..99b2391c7c 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/index.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/features/notifications/index.js
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ const mapStateToProps = state => ({
   notifications: getNotifications(state),
   localSettings:  state.get('local_settings'),
   isLoading: state.getIn(['notifications', 'isLoading'], true),
-  isUnread: state.getIn(['notifications', 'unread']) > 0,
+  isUnread: state.getIn(['notifications', 'unread']) > 0 || state.getIn(['notifications', 'pendingItems']).size > 0,
   hasMore: state.getIn(['notifications', 'hasMore']),
   numPending: state.getIn(['notifications', 'pendingItems'], ImmutableList()).size,
   notifCleaningActive: state.getIn(['notifications', 'cleaningMode']),
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
index 135995da66..2413f26fbb 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/notifications.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ const notificationToMap = (state, notification) => ImmutableMap({
 
 const normalizeNotification = (state, notification, usePendingItems) => {
   if (usePendingItems) {
-    return state.update('pendingItems', list => list.unshift(notificationToMap(state, notification)));
+    return state.update('pendingItems', list => list.unshift(notificationToMap(state, notification))).update('unread', unread => unread + 1);
   }
 
   const top = !shouldCountUnreadNotifications(state);
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ const filterNotifications = (state, accountIds) => {
 };
 
 const clearUnread = (state) => {
-  state = state.set('unread', 0);
+  state = state.set('unread', state.get('pendingItems').size);
   const lastNotification = state.get('items').find(item => item !== null);
   return state.set('lastReadId', lastNotification ? lastNotification.get('id') : '0');
 }
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ const deleteByStatus = (state, statusId) => {
     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);
   return state.update('items', helper).update('pendingItems', helper);
 };
 
diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/timelines.js b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/timelines.js
index 9b016a4c6d..7fb0a7fc1e 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/timelines.js
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/reducers/timelines.js
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ const updateTimeline = (state, timeline, status, usePendingItems) => {
       return state;
     }
 
-    return state.update(timeline, initialTimeline, map => map.update('pendingItems', list => list.unshift(status.get('id'))));
+    return state.update(timeline, initialTimeline, map => map.update('pendingItems', list => list.unshift(status.get('id'))).update('unread', unread => unread + 1));
   }
 
   const top        = state.getIn([timeline, 'top']);
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ const filterTimeline = (timeline, state, relationship, statuses) => {
 
 const updateTop = (state, timeline, top) => {
   return state.update(timeline, initialTimeline, map => map.withMutations(mMap => {
-    if (top) mMap.set('unread', 0);
+    if (top) mMap.set('unread', mMap.get('pendingItems').size);
     mMap.set('top', top);
   }));
 };