diff --git a/include/cron.php b/include/cron.php
index 00dd500704..c1e4338d6f 100644
--- a/include/cron.php
+++ b/include/cron.php
@@ -410,6 +410,12 @@ function cron_repair_database() {
 	// There was an issue where the nick vanishes from the contact table
 	q("UPDATE `contact` INNER JOIN `user` ON `contact`.`uid` = `user`.`uid` SET `nick` = `nickname` WHERE `self` AND `nick`=''");
 
+	// Update the global contacts for local users
+	$r = q("SELECT `uid` FROM `user` WHERE `verified` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `account_removed` AND NOT `account_expired`");
+	if ($r)
+		foreach ($r AS $user)
+			update_gcontact_for_user($user["uid"]);
+
 	/// @todo
 	/// - remove thread entries without item
 	/// - remove sign entries without item
diff --git a/include/dfrn.php b/include/dfrn.php
index f6f4366029..f1b325b571 100644
--- a/include/dfrn.php
+++ b/include/dfrn.php
@@ -490,7 +490,14 @@ class dfrn {
 		if ($birthday)
 			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "dfrn:birthday", $birthday);
 
-		// The following fields will only be generated if this isn't for a public feed
+		// Is the profile hidden or shouldn't be published in the net? Then add the "hide" element
+		$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `profile` INNER JOIN `user` ON `user`.`uid` = `profile`.`uid`
+				WHERE (`hidewall` OR NOT `net-publish`) AND `user`.`uid` = %d",
+			intval($owner['uid']));
+		if ($r)
+			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "dfrn:hide", "true");
+
+		// The following fields will only be generated if the data isn't meant for a public feed
 		if ($public)
 			return $author;
 
@@ -1126,7 +1133,7 @@ class dfrn {
 		$author["link"] = $xpath->evaluate($element."/atom:uri/text()", $context)->item(0)->nodeValue;
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `id`, `uid`, `url`, `network`, `avatar-date`, `name-date`, `uri-date`, `addr`,
-				`name`, `nick`, `about`, `location`, `keywords`, `bdyear`, `bd`
+				`name`, `nick`, `about`, `location`, `keywords`, `bdyear`, `bd`, `hidden`
 				FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `nurl` = '%s' AND `network` != '%s'",
 			intval($importer["uid"]), dbesc(normalise_link($author["link"])), dbesc(NETWORK_STATUSNET));
 		if ($r) {
@@ -1210,6 +1217,16 @@ class dfrn {
 			/// - poco:region
 			/// - poco:country
 
+			// If the "hide" element is present then the profile isn't searchable.
+			$hide = intval($xpath->evaluate($element."/dfrn:hide/text()", $context)->item(0)->nodeValue == "true");
+
+			logger("Hidden status for contact ".$contact["url"].": ".$hide, LOGGER_DEBUG);
+
+			// If the contact isn't searchable then set the contact to "hidden".
+			// Problem: This can be manually overridden by the user.
+			if ($hide)
+				$contact["hidden"] = true;
+
 			// Save the keywords into the contact table
 			$tags = array();
 			$tagelements = $xpath->evaluate($element."/poco:tags/text()", $context);
@@ -1262,17 +1279,17 @@ class dfrn {
 			unset($fields["name-date"]);
 			unset($fields["uri-date"]);
 
-			 // Update check for this field has to be done differently
+			// Update check for this field has to be done differently
 			$datefields = array("name-date", "uri-date");
 			foreach ($datefields AS $field)
 				if (strtotime($contact[$field]) > strtotime($r[0][$field])) {
-					logger("Difference for contact ".$contact["id"]." in field '".$field."'. Old value: '".$contact[$field]."', new value '".$r[0][$field]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
+					logger("Difference for contact ".$contact["id"]." in field '".$field."'. New value: '".$contact[$field]."', old value '".$r[0][$field]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 					$update = true;
 				}
 
 			foreach ($fields AS $field => $data)
 				if ($contact[$field] != $r[0][$field]) {
-					logger("Difference for contact ".$contact["id"]." in field '".$field."'. Old value: '".$contact[$field]."', new value '".$r[0][$field]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
+					logger("Difference for contact ".$contact["id"]." in field '".$field."'. New value: '".$contact[$field]."', old value '".$r[0][$field]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 					$update = true;
 				}
 
@@ -1280,13 +1297,13 @@ class dfrn {
 				logger("Update contact data for contact ".$contact["id"]." (".$contact["nick"].")", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 				q("UPDATE `contact` SET `name` = '%s', `nick` = '%s', `about` = '%s', `location` = '%s',
-					`addr` = '%s', `keywords` = '%s', `bdyear` = '%s', `bd` = '%s',
+					`addr` = '%s', `keywords` = '%s', `bdyear` = '%s', `bd` = '%s', `hidden` = %d,
 					`name-date`  = '%s', `uri-date` = '%s'
 					WHERE `id` = %d AND `network` = '%s'",
 					dbesc($contact["name"]), dbesc($contact["nick"]), dbesc($contact["about"]), dbesc($contact["location"]),
 					dbesc($contact["addr"]), dbesc($contact["keywords"]), dbesc($contact["bdyear"]),
-					dbesc($contact["bd"]), dbesc($contact["name-date"]), dbesc($contact["uri-date"]),
-					intval($contact["id"]), dbesc($contact["network"]));
+					dbesc($contact["bd"]), intval($contact["hidden"]), dbesc($contact["name-date"]),
+					dbesc($contact["uri-date"]), intval($contact["id"]), dbesc($contact["network"]));
 			}
 
 			update_contact_avatar($author["avatar"], $importer["uid"], $contact["id"],
@@ -1299,6 +1316,7 @@ class dfrn {
 
 			$poco["generation"] = 2;
 			$poco["photo"] = $author["avatar"];
+			$poco["hide"] = $hide;
 			update_gcontact($poco);
 		}
 
diff --git a/include/diaspora.php b/include/diaspora.php
index 0556511857..3a21130246 100644
--- a/include/diaspora.php
+++ b/include/diaspora.php
@@ -2,43 +2,11 @@
 /**
  * @file include/diaspora.php
  * @brief The implementation of the diaspora protocol
- *
- * Checklist:
- *
- * Checked:
- * - send status
- * - send comment
- * - send like
- * - send mail
- * - send status retraction
- * - send comment retraction on own post
- * - send like retraction on own post
- * - send comment retraction on diaspora post
- * - send like retraction on diaspora post
- * - receive status
- * - receive reshare
- * - receive comment
- * - receive like
- * - receive connect request
- * - receive profile data
- * - receive mail
- * - receive comment retraction
- * - receive like retraction
- * - relay comment
- * - relay like
- * - relay comment retraction from diaspora
- * - relay comment retraction from friendica
- * - relay like retraction from diaspora
- * - relay like retraction from friendica
- * - send share
- *
- * Should work:
- * - receive account deletion
- * - send unshare
- *
- * Unchecked:
  */
 
+/// @todo reshare of some reshare doesn't work well, see guid c1d534b0ed19013358694860008dbc6c
+// 14f571c0f244013358694860008dbc6c
+
 require_once("include/items.php");
 require_once("include/bb2diaspora.php");
 require_once("include/Scrape.php");
diff --git a/include/ostatus.php b/include/ostatus.php
index b798a605f9..918dec5f32 100644
--- a/include/ostatus.php
+++ b/include/ostatus.php
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ class ostatus {
 			}
 
 			$contact["generation"] = 2;
+			$contact["hide"] = false; // OStatus contacts are never hidden
 			$contact["photo"] = $author["author-avatar"];
 			update_gcontact($contact);
 		}
@@ -691,6 +692,7 @@ class ostatus {
 				}
 			}
 
+		$contact["hide"] = false; // OStatus contacts are never hidden
 		update_gcontact($contact);
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/socgraph.php b/include/socgraph.php
index 0acd2793aa..3718f82306 100644
--- a/include/socgraph.php
+++ b/include/socgraph.php
@@ -453,8 +453,11 @@ function poco_last_updated($profile, $force = false) {
 							"network" => $server[0]["network"],
 							"generation" => $gcontacts[0]["generation"]);
 
-					$contact["name"] = $noscrape["fn"];
-					$contact["community"] = $noscrape["comm"];
+					if (isset($noscrape["fn"]))
+						$contact["name"] = $noscrape["fn"];
+
+					if (isset($noscrape["comm"]))
+						$contact["community"] = $noscrape["comm"];
 
 					if (isset($noscrape["tags"])) {
 						$keywords = implode(" ", $noscrape["tags"]);
@@ -466,7 +469,8 @@ function poco_last_updated($profile, $force = false) {
 					if ($location)
 						$contact["location"] = $location;
 
-					$contact["notify"] = $noscrape["dfrn-notify"];
+					if (isset($noscrape["dfrn-notify"]))
+						$contact["notify"] = $noscrape["dfrn-notify"];
 
 					// Remove all fields that are not present in the gcontact table
 					unset($noscrape["fn"]);
@@ -1391,23 +1395,23 @@ function poco_discover_server($data, $default_generation = 0) {
  * @return string Contact url with the wanted parts
  */
 function clean_contact_url($url) {
-        $parts = parse_url($url);
+	$parts = parse_url($url);
 
-        if (!isset($parts["scheme"]) OR !isset($parts["host"]))
-                return $url;
+	if (!isset($parts["scheme"]) OR !isset($parts["host"]))
+		return $url;
 
-        $new_url = $parts["scheme"]."://".$parts["host"];
+	$new_url = $parts["scheme"]."://".$parts["host"];
 
-        if (isset($parts["port"]))
-                $new_url .= ":".$parts["port"];
+	if (isset($parts["port"]))
+		$new_url .= ":".$parts["port"];
 
-        if (isset($parts["path"]))
-                $new_url .= $parts["path"];
+	if (isset($parts["path"]))
+		$new_url .= $parts["path"];
 
 	if ($new_url != $url)
 		logger("Cleaned contact url ".$url." to ".$new_url." - Called by: ".App::callstack(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-        return $new_url;
+	return $new_url;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1417,7 +1421,7 @@ function clean_contact_url($url) {
  */
 function fix_alternate_contact_address(&$contact) {
 	if (($contact["network"] == NETWORK_OSTATUS) AND poco_alternate_ostatus_url($contact["url"])) {
-	        $data = probe_url($contact["url"]);
+		$data = probe_url($contact["url"]);
 		if ($contact["network"] == NETWORK_OSTATUS) {
 			logger("Fix primary url from ".$contact["url"]." to ".$data["url"]." - Called by: ".App::callstack(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			$contact["url"] = $data["url"];
@@ -1447,6 +1451,10 @@ function get_gcontact_id($contact) {
 	if ($contact["network"] == NETWORK_STATUSNET)
 		$contact["network"] = NETWORK_OSTATUS;
 
+	// All new contacts are hidden by default
+	if (!isset($contact["hide"]))
+		$contact["hide"] = true;
+
 	// Replace alternate OStatus user format with the primary one
 	fix_alternate_contact_address($contact);
 
@@ -1469,8 +1477,8 @@ function get_gcontact_id($contact) {
 			$doprobing = (((time() - $last_contact) > (90 * 86400)) AND ((time() - $last_failure) > (90 * 86400)));
 		}
 	} else {
-		q("INSERT INTO `gcontact` (`name`, `nick`, `addr` , `network`, `url`, `nurl`, `photo`, `created`, `updated`, `location`, `about`, `generation`)
-			VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d)",
+		q("INSERT INTO `gcontact` (`name`, `nick`, `addr` , `network`, `url`, `nurl`, `photo`, `created`, `updated`, `location`, `about`, `hide`, `generation`)
+			VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, %d)",
 			dbesc($contact["name"]),
 			dbesc($contact["nick"]),
 			dbesc($contact["addr"]),
@@ -1482,6 +1490,7 @@ function get_gcontact_id($contact) {
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			dbesc($contact["location"]),
 			dbesc($contact["about"]),
+			intval($contact["hide"]),
 			intval($contact["generation"])
 		);
 
@@ -1535,6 +1544,7 @@ function update_gcontact($contact) {
 
 	unset($fields["url"]);
 	unset($fields["updated"]);
+	unset($fields["hide"]);
 
 	// Bugfix: We had an error in the storing of keywords which lead to the "0"
 	// This value is still transmitted via poco.
@@ -1549,6 +1559,11 @@ function update_gcontact($contact) {
 		if (!isset($contact[$field]) OR ($contact[$field] == ""))
 			$contact[$field] = $r[0][$field];
 
+	if (!isset($contact["hide"]))
+		$contact["hide"] = $r[0]["hide"];
+
+	$fields["hide"] = $r[0]["hide"];
+
 	if ($contact["network"] == NETWORK_STATUSNET)
 		$contact["network"] = NETWORK_OSTATUS;
 
@@ -1657,6 +1672,44 @@ function update_gcontact_from_probe($url) {
 	update_gcontact($data);
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief Update the gcontact entry for a given user id
+ *
+ * @param int $uid User ID
+ */
+function update_gcontact_for_user($uid) {
+	$r = q("SELECT `profile`.`locality`, `profile`.`region`, `profile`.`country-name`,
+			`profile`.`name`, `profile`.`about`, `profile`.`gender`,
+			`profile`.`pub_keywords`, `profile`.`dob`, `profile`.`photo`,
+			`profile`.`net-publish`, `user`.`nickname`, `user`.`hidewall`,
+			`contact`.`notify`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`addr`
+		FROM `profile`
+			INNER JOIN `user` ON `user`.`uid` = `profile`.`uid`
+			INNER JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`uid` = `profile`.`uid`
+		WHERE `profile`.`uid` = %d AND `profile`.`is-default` AND `contact`.`self`",
+		intval($uid));
+
+	$location = formatted_location(array("locality" => $r[0]["locality"], "region" => $r[0]["region"],
+						"country-name" => $r[0]["country-name"]));
+
+	// The "addr" field was added in 3.4.3 so it can be empty for older users
+	if ($r[0]["addr"] != "")
+		$addr = $r[0]["nickname"].'@'.str_replace(array("http://", "https://"), "", App::get_baseurl());
+	else
+		$addr = $r[0]["addr"];
+
+	$gcontact = array("name" => $r[0]["name"], "location" => $location, "about" => $r[0]["about"],
+			"gender" => $r[0]["gender"], "keywords" => $r[0]["pub_keywords"],
+			"birthday" => $r[0]["dob"], "photo" => $r[0]["photo"],
+			"notify" => $r[0]["notify"], "url" => $r[0]["url"],
+			"hide" => ($r[0]["hidewall"] OR !$r[0]["net-publish"]),
+			"nick" => $r[0]["nickname"], "addr" => $addr,
+			"connect" => $addr, "server_url" => App::get_baseurl(),
+			"generation" => 1, "network" => NETWORK_DFRN);
+
+	update_gcontact($gcontact);
+}
+
 /**
  * @brief Fetches users of given GNU Social server
  *
diff --git a/mod/noscrape.php b/mod/noscrape.php
index 4be1a740cd..2a04605469 100644
--- a/mod/noscrape.php
+++ b/mod/noscrape.php
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@ function noscrape_init(&$a) {
 
 	profile_load($a,$which,$profile);
 
-	if(!$a->profile['net-publish'])
-		killme();
+	if (!$a->profile['net-publish'] OR $a->profile['hidewall']) {
+		header('Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
+		$json_info = array("hide" => true);
+		echo json_encode($json_info);
+		exit;
+	}
 
 	$keywords = ((x($a->profile,'pub_keywords')) ? $a->profile['pub_keywords'] : '');
 	$keywords = str_replace(array('#',',',' ',',,'),array('',' ',',',','),$keywords);
diff --git a/mod/profiles.php b/mod/profiles.php
index 39382fbdd5..780a279b54 100644
--- a/mod/profiles.php
+++ b/mod/profiles.php
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ function profiles_post(&$a) {
 		if($is_default) {
 			$location = formatted_location(array("locality" => $locality, "region" => $region, "country-name" => $country_name));
 
-			$r = q("UPDATE `contact` SET `about` = '%s', `location` = '%s', `keywords` = '%s', `gender` = '%s' WHERE `self` = 1 AND `uid` = %d",
+			q("UPDATE `contact` SET `about` = '%s', `location` = '%s', `keywords` = '%s', `gender` = '%s' WHERE `self` AND `uid` = %d",
 				dbesc($about),
 				dbesc($location),
 				dbesc($pub_keywords),
@@ -499,6 +499,9 @@ function profiles_post(&$a) {
 
 			require_once('include/profile_update.php');
 			profile_change();
+
+			// Update the global contact for the user
+			update_gcontact_for_user(local_user());
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/mod/settings.php b/mod/settings.php
index c7659212bf..5168589f79 100644
--- a/mod/settings.php
+++ b/mod/settings.php
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 
 require_once('include/group.php');
+require_once('include/socgraph.php');
 
 function get_theme_config_file($theme){
 	$a = get_app();
@@ -602,7 +603,7 @@ function settings_post(&$a) {
 
 
 	if($name_change) {
-		q("UPDATE `contact` SET `name` = '%s', `name-date` = '%s' WHERE `uid` = %d AND `self` = 1",
+		q("UPDATE `contact` SET `name` = '%s', `name-date` = '%s' WHERE `uid` = %d AND `self`",
 			dbesc($username),
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			intval(local_user())
@@ -614,13 +615,14 @@ function settings_post(&$a) {
 		$url = $_SESSION['my_url'];
 		if($url && strlen(get_config('system','directory')))
 			proc_run('php',"include/directory.php","$url");
-
 	}
 
-
 	require_once('include/profile_update.php');
 	profile_change();
 
+	// Update the global contact for the user
+	update_gcontact_for_user(local_user());
+
 	//$_SESSION['theme'] = $theme;
 	if($email_changed && $a->config['register_policy'] == REGISTER_VERIFY) {
 
@@ -629,7 +631,7 @@ function settings_post(&$a) {
 
 	}
 
-	goaway('settings' );
+	goaway('settings');
 	return; // NOTREACHED
 }
 
@@ -1279,7 +1281,7 @@ function settings_content(&$a) {
 		'$notify7'  => array('notify7', t('You are tagged in a post'), ($notify & NOTIFY_TAGSELF), NOTIFY_TAGSELF, ''),
 		'$notify8'  => array('notify8', t('You are poked/prodded/etc. in a post'), ($notify & NOTIFY_POKE), NOTIFY_POKE, ''),
 
-        '$desktop_notifications' => array('desktop_notifications', t('Activate desktop notifications') , false, t('Show desktop popup on new notifications')),
+		'$desktop_notifications' => array('desktop_notifications', t('Activate desktop notifications') , false, t('Show desktop popup on new notifications')),
 
 		'$email_textonly' => array('email_textonly', t('Text-only notification emails'),
 									get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','email_textonly'),