diff --git a/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb b/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
index defe6410..b0088074 100644
--- a/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/notifications_controller.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class NotificationsController < ApplicationController
 
   def read
     current_user.notifications.where(new: true).update_all(new: false) # rubocop:disable Rails/SkipsModelValidations
+    current_user.touch(:notifications_updated_at)
 
     respond_to do |format|
       format.turbo_stream do
diff --git a/app/views/notifications/type/_nilclass.html.haml b/app/views/notifications/type/_nilclass.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6932516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/notifications/type/_nilclass.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-# This is a stub to prevent errors on broken notifications on content being asynchronously destroyed.
+- logger.error "Notification ##{notification.id} has a target which doesn't exist. (Target: #{notification.target_type}##{notification.target_id})"