diff --git a/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js b/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
index 93df4371..c2eacbe1 100644
--- a/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
+++ b/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
   // A refusal fails closed: no kept data, the code in mono. Any other failure keeps the last read, labelled with its time.
   const refusal = err => err.status === 403 || ['not-configured', 'no-bus-host'].includes(err.code);
   // After a refusal nothing read before is shown anywhere: not in a view, the palette or the Inbox count.
-  function forget() { last.clear(); inboxCount = null; }
+  function forget() { inboxCount = null; }
   const failedView = err => `${head(failTitle(err))}<div class="banner ${refusal(err) ? 'ref' : 'err'}" role="alert"><p>${refusal(err) ? `<b>refused: <code>${txt(err.code)}</code>.</b> ` : ''}${why(err)} Console shows nothing rather than a guess. Nothing was written.</p>${retry}</div>${empty('Nothing to show.', refusal(err) ? 'The view stays empty until the problem above is fixed.' : 'Read again, or come back when the bus answers.')}`;
   const staleBanner = err => `<div class="banner err s1-stale" role="alert"><p><b>The last read failed.</b> ${why(err)} This is what was read before, ${when(readAt)}. Nothing was changed.</p>${retry}</div>`;
   // Freshness line in the command bar for bus pages.