Pagination of collections not working properly on Admin UI

[Danil0v3s]

Describe the Bug

Whenever I open a collection I can briefly see the page render everything without pagination and only then the pages get created. We suspect this issue is happening on V2 as well because once in a while we get our API key from S3 rate limited. I could observe the logs are fetching every image I have on s3, we could also see this on another collection taking 8000+ms to load.

 GET /admin/collections/external-transactions 200 in 8340ms
 GET /admin/collections/external-transactions 200 in 7456ms
 GET /admin/collections/external-transactions?limit=10 200 in 728ms
 POST /admin/collections/external-transactions 200 in 232ms
 POST /admin/collections/external-transactions 200 in 211ms
 POST /admin/collections/external-transactions 200 in 205ms
 GET /admin/collections/external-transactions?limit=10 200 in 804ms

By the logs, it seems the first iteration on the page is being requested without the limit?=10 even though I opened via sidebar, triggering a full load.

Link to the code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/Danil0v3s/payload/tree/pagination-issue

Reproduction Steps

• Run
• Open Posts collection

Observe logs.

Which area(s) are affected? (Select all that apply)

area: ui

Environment Info

Payload: 3.11.0
Node.js: 18.20.3
Next.js: 15.0.3