diff --git a/include/bb2diaspora.php b/include/bb2diaspora.php
index 0ffbf0a14..eeed19d81 100644
--- a/include/bb2diaspora.php
+++ b/include/bb2diaspora.php
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ function bb2diaspora($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $fordiaspora = true) {
 	/**
 	 * Transform #tags, strip off the [url] and replace spaces with underscore
 	 */
-	$Text = preg_replace_callback('/#\[url\=(\w+.*?)\](\w+.*?)\[\/url\]/i', create_function('$match',
+	$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
+	$Text = preg_replace_callback("/#\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/i", create_function('$match',
 		'return \'#\'. str_replace(\' \', \'_\', $match[2]);'
 	), $Text);
 
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index 33c0721b0..4ccab8db5 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ function bb_remove_share_information($Text, $plaintext = false) {
 }
 
 function bb_cleanup_share($shared) {
-        if ($shared[2] != "type-link")
-                return($shared[3]);
+	if (!in_array($shared[2], array("type-link", "type-video")))
+                return($shared[0]);
 
         if (!preg_match_all("/\[bookmark\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",$shared[3], $bookmark))
-                return($shared[3]);
+                return($shared[0]);
 
         $title = "";
         $link = "";
@@ -746,9 +746,20 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	// Set up the parameters for a MAIL search string
 	$MAILSearchString = $URLSearchString;
 
+	// Remove all hashtag addresses
+	if (!$tryoembed OR $simplehtml)
+		$Text = preg_replace("/([#@])\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '$1$3', $Text);
+
 	// Bookmarks in red - will be converted to bookmarks in friendica
 	$Text = preg_replace("/#\^\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '[bookmark=$1]$1[/bookmark]', $Text);
 	$Text = preg_replace("/#\^\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '[bookmark=$1]$2[/bookmark]', $Text);
+	$Text = preg_replace("/#\[url\=[$URLSearchString]*\]\^\[\/url\]\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/i",
+				"[bookmark=$1]$2[/bookmark]", $Text);
+
+	if ($simplehtml == 2) {
+		$Text = preg_replace("/[^#@]\[url\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",' $2 [url]$1[/url]',$Text);
+		$Text = preg_replace("/\[bookmark\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",' $2 [url]$1[/url]',$Text);
+	}
 
 	if ($simplehtml == 5)
 		$Text = preg_replace("/[^#@]\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '[url]$1[/url]', $Text);
@@ -1062,11 +1073,11 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	//	$Text = str_replace('<br /><ul','<ul ', $Text);
 
 	// Remove all hashtag addresses
-	if (!$tryoembed AND get_config("system", "remove_hashtags_on_export")) {
+/*	if (!$tryoembed AND get_config("system", "remove_hashtags_on_export")) {
 		$pattern = '/#<a.*?href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
 		$Text = preg_replace($pattern, '#$2', $Text);
 	}
-
+*/
 	call_hooks('bbcode',$Text);
 
 	$a->save_timestamp($stamp1, "parser");
diff --git a/include/html2plain.php b/include/html2plain.php
index 0398ea79b..f09087e0b 100644
--- a/include/html2plain.php
+++ b/include/html2plain.php
@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ function html2plain($html, $wraplength = 75, $compact = false)
 	$message = str_replace("\r", "", $html);
 
 	// replace all hashtag addresses
-	if (get_config("system", "remove_hashtags_on_export")) {
+/*	if (get_config("system", "remove_hashtags_on_export")) {
 		$pattern = '/#<a.*?href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
 		$message = preg_replace($pattern, '#$2', $message);
 	}
-
+*/
 	$doc = new DOMDocument();
 	$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
 
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ function html2plain($html, $wraplength = 75, $compact = false)
 	node2bbcode($doc, 'h6', array(), "\n\n*", "*\n");
 
 	// Problem: there is no reliable way to detect if it is a link to a tag or profile
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/'), ' $1 ', '', true);
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/', 'rel'=>'oembed'), ' $1 ', '', true);
+	//node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/'), ' $1 ', ' ', true);
+	//node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/', 'rel'=>'oembed'), ' $1 ', '', true);
 	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array('alt'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
 	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array('title'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
 	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array(), '', '');
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 2f03818a7..76bcbc7b2 100755
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -1007,9 +1007,9 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false) {
 	}
 
 	// Shouldn't happen but we want to make absolutely sure it doesn't leak from a plugin.
-
-	if((strpos($arr['body'],'<') !== false) || (strpos($arr['body'],'>') !== false))
-		$arr['body'] = strip_tags($arr['body']);
+	// Deactivated, since the bbcode parser can handle with it - and it destroys posts with some smileys that contain "<"
+	//if((strpos($arr['body'],'<') !== false) || (strpos($arr['body'],'>') !== false))
+	//	$arr['body'] = strip_tags($arr['body']);
 
 
 	if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '>=')) {
diff --git a/include/plaintext.php b/include/plaintext.php
index 0c985e05c..76bcaa1f9 100644
--- a/include/plaintext.php
+++ b/include/plaintext.php
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ function plaintext($a, $b, $limit = 0, $includedlinks = false) {
 				// Is the new message empty by now or is it a reshared message?
 				elseif (($msg == "") OR (($row == 1) AND (substr($msg, 0, 4) == $recycle)))
 					$msg = substr(substr(trim($msg."\n".$line), 0, $limit), 0, -3)."...";
+				else
+					break;
 			}
 		}
 	}