Lets-Build-a-Forum-in-Laravel - Lesson 38 - Pagination Issue

I'm finding that I need to make the field in the query string "pages" not "page" in order for the pagination to work. Which is odd given that it works for Jeff in the tutorial. Has anyone else found this? I've had a search around the code for a likely cause, I thought it might be config based but I found nothing. On the forums someone had a similar issue that ended up being related to nginx setup but I'm just using Valet on my local machine so you'd think that wouldn't be the cause in this instance...