diff --git a/app/services/notification_service.rb b/app/services/notification_service.rb
index 1337dca83547b8474f2f1b661742d50486d9cbf7..c7e45a2c2c705ab1addf21ef552c16f4d3f9405f 100644
--- a/app/services/notification_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/notification_service.rb
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ class NotificationService
     # Add all users participating in the thread (author, assignee, comment authors)
     participants = 
       if target.is_a?(Commit)
-        target.participants(note.project)
+        target.participants(note.project, note.author)
       elsif target.respond_to?(:participants)
-        target.participants
+        target.participants(note.author)
       else
         note.mentioned_users
       end