diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index b47a514320..01a1419567 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -828,7 +828,6 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 
 	$ev = bbtoevent($Text);
 
-
 	// Replace any html brackets with HTML Entities to prevent executing HTML or script
 	// Don't use strip_tags here because it breaks [url] search by replacing & with amp
 
@@ -885,8 +884,13 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	$MAILSearchString = $URLSearchString;
 
 	// Remove all hashtag addresses
-	if (!$tryoembed OR $simplehtml)
+	if ((!$tryoembed OR $simplehtml) AND ($simplehtml != 7))
 		$Text = preg_replace("/([#@])\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '$1$3', $Text);
+	elseif ($simplehtml == 7)
+		$Text = preg_replace("/([@])\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
+			'$1<span class="vcard"><a href="$2" class="url" title="$3"><span class="fn nickname mention">$3</span></a></span>',
+			$Text);
+
 
 	// Bookmarks in red - will be converted to bookmarks in friendica
 	$Text = preg_replace("/#\^\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '[bookmark=$1]$1[/bookmark]', $Text);
@@ -937,13 +941,13 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	// we may need to restrict this further if it picks up too many strays
 	// link acct:user@host to a webfinger profile redirector
 
-	$Text = preg_replace('/acct:(.*?)@(.*?)([ ,])/', '<a href="' . $a->get_baseurl() . '/acctlink?addr=' . "$1@$2" 
+	$Text = preg_replace('/acct:(.*?)@(.*?)([ ,])/', '<a href="' . $a->get_baseurl() . '/acctlink?addr=' . "$1@$2"
 		. '" target="extlink" >acct:' . "$1@$2$3" . '</a>',$Text);
 
 	// Perform MAIL Search
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[mail\]([$MAILSearchString]*)\[\/mail\]/", '<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>', $Text);
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[mail\=([$MAILSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/mail\]/", '<a href="mailto:$1">$2</a>', $Text);
-	
+
 	// leave open the posibility of [map=something]
 	// this is replaced in prepare_body() which has knowledge of the item location
 
@@ -955,8 +959,8 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	}
 	if (strpos($Text,'[map]') !== false) {
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[map\]/", '<div class="map"></div>', $Text);
-	}	
-	
+	}
+
 	// Check for headers
 	$Text = preg_replace("(\[h1\](.*?)\[\/h1\])ism",'<h1>$1</h1>',$Text);
 	$Text = preg_replace("(\[h2\](.*?)\[\/h2\])ism",'<h2>$1</h2>',$Text);
@@ -1004,8 +1008,8 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 	$endlessloop = 0;
 
 	while ((((strpos($Text, "[/list]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[list") !== false)) ||
-	       ((strpos($Text, "[/ol]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[ol]") !== false)) || 
-	       ((strpos($Text, "[/ul]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[ul]") !== false)) || 
+	       ((strpos($Text, "[/ol]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[ol]") !== false)) ||
+	       ((strpos($Text, "[/ul]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[ul]") !== false)) ||
 	       ((strpos($Text, "[/li]") !== false) && (strpos($Text, "[li]") !== false))) && (++$endlessloop < 20)) {
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[list\](.*?)\[\/list\]/ism", '<ul class="listbullet" style="list-style-type: circle;">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[list=\](.*?)\[\/list\]/ism", '<ul class="listnone" style="list-style-type: none;">$1</ul>' ,$Text);
@@ -1149,7 +1153,7 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 		$Text = preg_replace_callback("/\[vimeo\](https?:\/\/vimeo.com\/[0-9]+).*?\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'tryoembed',$Text);
 	}
 
-	$Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]https?:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'[vimeo]$1[/vimeo]',$Text); 
+	$Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]https?:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'[vimeo]$1[/vimeo]',$Text);
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]https?:\/\/vimeo.com\/([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'[vimeo]$1[/vimeo]',$Text);
 
 	if ($tryoembed)
diff --git a/mod/item.php b/mod/item.php
index aecfc1bb8c..27bd5108d2 100644
--- a/mod/item.php
+++ b/mod/item.php
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 						$parent_contact["nurl"] = normalise_link($probed_contact["url"]);
 						$parent_contact["thumb"] = $probed_contact["photo"];
 						$parent_contact["micro"] = $probed_contact["photo"];
+						$parent_contact["addr"] = $probed_contact["addr"];
 					}
 					logger('parent contact: '.print_r($parent_contact, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 				} else
@@ -569,10 +570,32 @@ function item_post(&$a) {
 	 * and we are replying, and there isn't one already
 	 */
 
-	if(($parent_contact) && ($parent_contact['network'] === NETWORK_OSTATUS)
-		&& ($parent_contact['nick']) && (!in_array('@'.$parent_contact['nick'].'+'.$parent_contact['id'],$tags))) {
-		$body = '@'.$parent_contact['nick'].'+'.$parent_contact['id'].' '.$body;
-		$tags[] = '@'.$parent_contact['nick'].'+'.$parent_contact['id'];
+	if ($parent_contact['id'] != "")
+		$contact = '@'.$parent_contact['nick'].'+'.$parent_contact['id'];
+	//elseif ($parent_contact['addr'] != "")
+	//	$contact = '@'.$parent_contact['addr'];
+	else
+		$contact = '@[url='.$parent_contact['url'].']'.$parent_contact['nick'].'[/url]';
+
+	if ($parent_contact && ($parent_contact['network'] === NETWORK_OSTATUS)) {
+		if (($parent_contact['nick']) && (!in_array($contact,$tags))) {
+			$body = $contact.' '.$body;
+			$tags[] = $contact;
+		}
+
+		$toplevel_contact = "";
+		$toplevel_parent = q("SELECT `contact`.* FROM `contact` INNER JOIN `item` ON `item`.`contact-id` = `contact`.`id`
+					WHERE `item`.`id` = `item`.`parent` AND `item`.`parent` = %d", intval($parent));
+		if ($toplevel_parent)
+			$toplevel_contact = '@'.$toplevel_parent[0]['nick'].'+'.$toplevel_parent[0]['id'];
+		else {
+			$toplevel_parent = q("SELECT `author-link`, `author-name` FROM `item` WHERE `id` = `parent` AND `parent` = %d", intval($parent));
+			$toplevel_contact = '@[url='.$toplevel_parent[0]['author-link'].']'.$toplevel_parent[0]['author-name'].'[/url]';
+		}
+
+		if ($toplevel_contact != "")
+			if (!in_array($toplevel_contact,$tags))
+				$tags[] = $toplevel_contact;
 	}
 
 	$tagged = array();