diff --git a/database.sql b/database.sql
index 2f4bec6897..caf8d47b0a 100644
--- a/database.sql
+++ b/database.sql
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -- ------------------------------------------
--- Friendica 2023.09-dev (Giant Rhubarb)
+-- Friendica 2023.09-rc (Giant Rhubarb)
 -- DB_UPDATE_VERSION 1535
 -- ------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/Model/Circle.php b/src/Model/Circle.php
index 2b32103db9..92e3ea6560 100644
--- a/src/Model/Circle.php
+++ b/src/Model/Circle.php
@@ -169,16 +169,17 @@ class Circle
 	 *
 	 * Count unread items of each circle of the local user
 	 *
+	 * @param int $uid
 	 * @return array
 	 *    'id' => circle id
 	 *    'name' => circle name
 	 *    'count' => counted unseen circle items
 	 * @throws \Exception
 	 */
-	public static function countUnseen()
+	public static function countUnseen(int $uid)
 	{
 		$stmt = DBA::p("SELECT `circle`.`id`, `circle`.`name`,
-				(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `post-user-view`
+				(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `post-user`
 					WHERE `uid` = ?
 					AND `unseen`
 					AND `contact-id` IN
@@ -188,8 +189,8 @@ class Circle
 					) AS `count`
 				FROM `group` AS `circle`
 				WHERE `circle`.`uid` = ?;",
-			DI::userSession()->getLocalUserId(),
-			DI::userSession()->getLocalUserId()
+			$uid,
+			$uid
 		);
 
 		return DBA::toArray($stmt);
diff --git a/src/Module/Admin/Site.php b/src/Module/Admin/Site.php
index 09624dcfc7..a99619c813 100644
--- a/src/Module/Admin/Site.php
+++ b/src/Module/Admin/Site.php
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ class Site extends BaseAdmin
 			'$max_display_comments'   => ['max_display_comments', DI::l10n()->t('Maximum numbers of comments per post on the display page'), DI::config()->get('system', 'max_display_comments'), DI::l10n()->t('How many comments should be shown on the single view for each post? Default value is 1000.')],
 			'$temppath'               => ['temppath', DI::l10n()->t('Temp path'), DI::config()->get('system', 'temppath'), DI::l10n()->t('If you have a restricted system where the webserver can\'t access the system temp path, enter another path here.')],
 			'$only_tag_search'        => ['only_tag_search', DI::l10n()->t('Only search in tags'), DI::config()->get('system', 'only_tag_search'), DI::l10n()->t('On large systems the text search can slow down the system extremely.')],
-			'$compute_circle_counts'   => ['compute_circle_counts', DI::l10n()->t('Generate counts per contact circle when calculating network count'), DI::config()->get('system', 'compute_group_counts') ?? DI::config()->get('system', 'compute_circle_counts'), DI::l10n()->t('On systems with users that heavily use contact circles the query can be very expensive.')],
+			'$compute_circle_counts'  => ['compute_circle_counts', DI::l10n()->t('Generate counts per contact circle when calculating network count'), DI::config()->get('system', 'compute_circle_counts'), DI::l10n()->t('On systems with users that heavily use contact circles the query can be very expensive.')],
 
 			'$worker_queues'          => ['worker_queues', DI::l10n()->t('Maximum number of parallel workers'), DI::config()->get('system', 'worker_queues'), DI::l10n()->t('On shared hosters set this to %d. On larger systems, values of %d are great. Default value is %d.', 5, 20, 10)],
 			'$worker_fastlane'        => ['worker_fastlane', DI::l10n()->t('Enable fastlane'), DI::config()->get('system', 'worker_fastlane'), DI::l10n()->t('When enabed, the fastlane mechanism starts an additional worker if processes with higher priority are blocked by processes of lower priority.')],
diff --git a/src/Module/Notifications/Ping.php b/src/Module/Notifications/Ping.php
index 85b9b4d694..794ca5861a 100644
--- a/src/Module/Notifications/Ping.php
+++ b/src/Module/Notifications/Ping.php
@@ -152,10 +152,10 @@ class Ping extends BaseModule
 				}
 			}
 
-			$compute_circle_counts = $this->config->get('system','compute_group_counts') ?? $this->config->get('system','compute_circle_counts');
+			$compute_circle_counts = $this->config->get('system','compute_circle_counts');
 			if ($network_count && $compute_circle_counts) {
 				// Find out how unseen network posts are spread across circles
-				foreach (Circle::countUnseen() as $circle_count) {
+				foreach (Circle::countUnseen($this->session->getLocalUserId()) as $circle_count) {
 					if ($circle_count['count'] > 0) {
 						$circles_unseen[] = $circle_count;
 					}
diff --git a/update.php b/update.php
index 9af01fd0fe..f04a4d5c5f 100644
--- a/update.php
+++ b/update.php
@@ -1388,5 +1388,15 @@ function update_1531()
 	}
 	DBA::close($threads);
 
+	return Update::SUCCESS;
+}
+
+function update_1535()
+{
+	if (DI::config()->get('system', 'compute_group_counts')) {
+		DI::config()->set('system', 'compute_circle_counts', true);
+	}
+	DI::config()->delete('system', 'compute_group_counts');
+	
 	return Update::SUCCESS;
 }
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