diff --git a/src/app/MenuDesktop.svelte b/src/app/MenuDesktop.svelte
index b936918b..ff69c7c4 100644
--- a/src/app/MenuDesktop.svelte
+++ b/src/app/MenuDesktop.svelte
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
       </div>
     </MenuDesktopItem>
   {/if}
-  <MenuDesktopItem path="/notifications">
+  <MenuDesktopItem path="/notifications" disabled={!$canSign}>
     <div class="relative inline-block">
       Notifications
       {#if $hasNewNotifications}
diff --git a/src/engine/core/utils/storage.ts b/src/engine/core/utils/storage.ts
index b0d119f5..35395534 100644
--- a/src/engine/core/utils/storage.ts
+++ b/src/engine/core/utils/storage.ts
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ export class LocalStorageAdapter {
     const {key, store, opts} = this
     const {load, dump} = opts || {load: identity, dump: identity}
 
-    if (Object.hasOwnProperty(localStorage, key)) {
+    if (Object.hasOwn(localStorage, key)) {
       store.set(load(LocalStorage.getJson(key)))
     }
 
diff --git a/src/engine/events/commands.ts b/src/engine/events/commands.ts
index 52ca6b15..d29acca1 100644
--- a/src/engine/events/commands.ts
+++ b/src/engine/events/commands.ts
@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ const createReadReceipt = ids =>
 
 export const markAsSeenPublicly = batch(5000, async idChunks => {
   for (const ids of chunk(500, uniq(flatten(idChunks)))) {
-    Publisher.publish({
-      event: await signer.get().signAsUser(createReadReceipt(ids)),
-      relays: getUserHints("write"),
-    })
+    const event = await signer.get().signAsUser(createReadReceipt(ids))
+
+    if (event) {
+      Publisher.publish({event, relays: getUserHints("write")})
+    }
   }
 })