diff --git a/src/components/notifications/notifications.js b/src/components/notifications/notifications.js
index 55a9b0ab9..b24250b07 100644
--- a/src/components/notifications/notifications.js
+++ b/src/components/notifications/notifications.js
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ const Notifications = {
     notifications () {
       return this.$store.state.statuses.notifications.data
     },
+    error () {
+      return this.$store.state.statuses.notifications.error
+    },
     unseenNotifications () {
       return filter(this.notifications, ({seen}) => !seen)
     },
diff --git a/src/components/notifications/notifications.scss b/src/components/notifications/notifications.scss
index 2bc71bfe4..5b09685b6 100644
--- a/src/components/notifications/notifications.scss
+++ b/src/components/notifications/notifications.scss
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
   // a bit of a hack to allow scrolling below notifications
   padding-bottom: 15em;
 
+  .title {
+    display: inline-block;
+  }
+
   .panel {
     background: $fallback--bg;
     background: var(--bg, $fallback--bg)
@@ -22,6 +26,8 @@
     background: var(--btn, $fallback--btn);
     color: $fallback--fg;
     color: var(--fg, $fallback--fg);
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: baseline;
     .read-button {
       position: absolute;
       right: 0.7em;
@@ -44,6 +50,19 @@
     line-height: 1.3em;
   }
 
+  .loadmore-error {
+    position: absolute;
+    right: 0.6em;
+    font-size: 14px;
+    min-width: 6em;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    text-align: center;
+    padding: 0 0.25em 0 0.25em;
+    margin: 0;
+    color: $fallback--fg;
+    color: var(--fg, $fallback--fg);
+  }
+
   .unseen {
     box-shadow: inset 4px 0 0 var(--cRed, $fallback--cRed);
     padding-left: 0;
@@ -79,7 +98,7 @@
     }
   }
 
-  &:hover .animated.avatar {
+  &:hover .animated.avatar-compact {
     canvas {
       display: none;
     }
@@ -155,6 +174,13 @@
       max-width: 100%;
       text-overflow: ellipsis;
       white-space: nowrap;
+
+      img {
+        width: 14px;
+        height: 14px;
+        vertical-align: middle;
+        object-fit: contain
+      }
     }
     .timeago {
       float: right;
@@ -204,15 +230,4 @@
       margin-bottom: 0.3em;
     }
   }
-
-  // ugly as heck
-  &:last-child {
-    border-bottom: none;
-    border-radius: 0 0 $fallback--panelRadius $fallback--panelRadius;
-    border-radius: 0 0 var(--panelRadius, $fallback--panelRadius) var(--panelRadius, $fallback--panelRadius);
-    .status-el {
-      border-radius: 0 0 $fallback--panelRadius $fallback--panelRadius;
-      border-radius: 0 0 var(--panelRadius, $fallback--panelRadius) var(--panelRadius, $fallback--panelRadius);
-    }
-  }
 }
diff --git a/src/components/notifications/notifications.vue b/src/components/notifications/notifications.vue
index 859730ed8..a0b0e5f58 100644
--- a/src/components/notifications/notifications.vue
+++ b/src/components/notifications/notifications.vue
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
     <div class="panel panel-default">
       <div class="panel-heading">
         <span class="unseen-count" v-if="unseenCount">{{unseenCount}}</span>
-        {{$t('notifications.notifications')}}
+        <div class="title"> {{$t('notifications.notifications')}}</div>
+        <div @click.prevent class="loadmore-error alert error" v-if="error">
+          {{$t('timeline.error_fetching')}}
+        </div>
         <button v-if="unseenCount" @click.prevent="markAsSeen" class="read-button">{{$t('notifications.read')}}</button>
       </div>
       <div class="panel-body">
diff --git a/src/i18n/messages.js b/src/i18n/messages.js
index d0fc50137..00c562548 100644
--- a/src/i18n/messages.js
+++ b/src/i18n/messages.js
@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ const en = {
     followed_you: 'followed you',
     favorited_you: 'favorited your status',
     repeated_you: 'repeated your status',
-    broken_favorite: 'Unknown status, searching for it...'
+    broken_favorite: 'Unknown status, searching for it...',
+    load_older: 'Load older notifications'
   },
   login: {
     login: 'Log in',
@@ -1650,7 +1651,8 @@ const ru = {
     followed_you: 'начал(а) читать вас',
     favorited_you: 'нравится ваш статус',
     repeated_you: 'повторил(а) ваш статус',
-    broken_favorite: 'Неизвестный статус, ищем...'
+    broken_favorite: 'Неизвестный статус, ищем...',
+    load_older: 'Загрузить старые уведомления'
   },
   login: {
     login: 'Войти',
diff --git a/src/modules/statuses.js b/src/modules/statuses.js
index 45dd3afac..8e1e7fe7d 100644
--- a/src/modules/statuses.js
+++ b/src/modules/statuses.js
@@ -24,10 +24,12 @@ export const defaultState = {
   allStatusesObject: {},
   maxId: 0,
   notifications: {
+    desktopNotificationSilence: true,
     maxId: 0,
     maxSavedId: 0,
     minId: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
     data: [],
+    error: false,
     brokenFavorites: {}
   },
   favorites: new Set(),
@@ -36,7 +38,6 @@ export const defaultState = {
     mentions: emptyTl(),
     public: emptyTl(),
     user: emptyTl(),
-    own: emptyTl(),
     publicAndExternal: emptyTl(),
     friends: emptyTl(),
     tag: emptyTl()
@@ -315,7 +316,7 @@ const addNewNotifications = (state, { dispatch, notifications, older }) => {
           result.image = action.attachments[0].url
         }
 
-        if (fresh) {
+        if (fresh && !state.notifications.desktopNotificationSilence) {
           let notification = new window.Notification(title, result)
           // Chrome is known for not closing notifications automatically
           // according to MDN, anyway.
@@ -364,7 +365,10 @@ export const mutations = {
     state.error = value
   },
   setNotificationsError (state, { value }) {
-    state.notificationsError = value
+    state.notifications.error = value
+  },
+  setNotificationsSilence (state, { value }) {
+    state.notifications.desktopNotificationSilence = value
   },
   setProfileView (state, { v }) {
     // load followers / friends only when needed
@@ -402,6 +406,9 @@ const statuses = {
     setNotificationsError ({ rootState, commit }, { value }) {
       commit('setNotificationsError', { value })
     },
+    setNotificationsSilence ({ rootState, commit }, { value }) {
+      commit('setNotificationsSilence', { value })
+    },
     addFriends ({ rootState, commit }, { friends }) {
       commit('addFriends', { friends })
     },
diff --git a/src/modules/users.js b/src/modules/users.js
index c592fe4e9..ba5487655 100644
--- a/src/modules/users.js
+++ b/src/modules/users.js
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ const users = {
 
                   // Start getting fresh tweets.
                   store.dispatch('startFetching', 'friends')
-                  // Start getting our own posts, only really needed for mitigating broken favorites
-                  store.dispatch('startFetching', ['own', user.id])
 
                   // Get user mutes and follower info
                   store.rootState.api.backendInteractor.fetchMutes().then((mutedUsers) => {
diff --git a/src/services/api/api.service.js b/src/services/api/api.service.js
index 1cb5e0b8f..4f6af06dd 100644
--- a/src/services/api/api.service.js
+++ b/src/services/api/api.service.js
@@ -306,9 +306,6 @@ const fetchTimeline = ({timeline, credentials, since = false, until = false, use
     notifications: QVITTER_USER_NOTIFICATIONS_URL,
     'publicAndExternal': PUBLIC_AND_EXTERNAL_TIMELINE_URL,
     user: QVITTER_USER_TIMELINE_URL,
-    // separate timeline for own posts, so it won't break due to user timeline bugs
-    // really needed only for broken favorites
-    own: QVITTER_USER_TIMELINE_URL,
     tag: TAG_TIMELINE_URL
   }
 
diff --git a/src/services/backend_interactor_service/backend_interactor_service.js b/src/services/backend_interactor_service/backend_interactor_service.js
index c84373acf..5742441cf 100644
--- a/src/services/backend_interactor_service/backend_interactor_service.js
+++ b/src/services/backend_interactor_service/backend_interactor_service.js
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ const backendInteractorService = (credentials) => {
     return timelineFetcherService.startFetching({timeline, store, credentials, userId})
   }
 
-  const fetchOldPost = ({store, postId}) => {
+  const fetchOldPost = ({store, postId, timeline = 'friends'}) => {
     return timelineFetcherService.fetchAndUpdate({
       store,
       credentials,
-      timeline: 'own',
+      timeline,
       older: true,
       until: postId + 1
     })
diff --git a/src/services/notifications_fetcher/notifications_fetcher.service.js b/src/services/notifications_fetcher/notifications_fetcher.service.js
index 5aedc4fbc..74a4bcda1 100644
--- a/src/services/notifications_fetcher/notifications_fetcher.service.js
+++ b/src/services/notifications_fetcher/notifications_fetcher.service.js
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ const fetchAndUpdate = ({store, credentials, older = false}) => {
 const startFetching = ({credentials, store}) => {
   fetchAndUpdate({ credentials, store })
   const boundFetchAndUpdate = () => fetchAndUpdate({ credentials, store })
+  // Initially there's set flag to silence all desktop notifications so
+  // that there won't spam of them when user just opened up the FE we
+  // reset that flag after a while to show new notifications once again.
+  setTimeout(() => store.dispatch('setNotificationsSilence', false), 10000)
   return setInterval(boundFetchAndUpdate, 10000)
 }