diff --git a/include/api.php b/include/api.php
index d7fa1d5875..701e527cc8 100644
--- a/include/api.php
+++ b/include/api.php
@@ -1686,20 +1686,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		);
 
 		if ($r[0]['body'] != "") {
-			if (!intval(get_config('system','old_share'))) {
-				if (strpos($r[0]['body'], "[/share]") !== false) {
-					$pos = strpos($r[0]['body'], "[share");
-					$post = substr($r[0]['body'], $pos);
-				} else {
-					$post = share_header($r[0]['author-name'], $r[0]['author-link'], $r[0]['author-avatar'], $r[0]['guid'], $r[0]['created'], $r[0]['plink']);
-
-					$post .= $r[0]['body'];
-					$post .= "[/share]";
-				}
-				$_REQUEST['body'] = $post;
-			} else
-				$_REQUEST['body'] = html_entity_decode("♲ ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')."[url=".$r[0]['reply_url']."]".$r[0]['reply_author']."[/url] \n".$r[0]['body'];
+			if (strpos($r[0]['body'], "[/share]") !== false) {
+				$pos = strpos($r[0]['body'], "[share");
+				$post = substr($r[0]['body'], $pos);
+			} else {
+				$post = share_header($r[0]['author-name'], $r[0]['author-link'], $r[0]['author-avatar'], $r[0]['guid'], $r[0]['created'], $r[0]['plink']);
 
+				$post .= $r[0]['body'];
+				$post .= "[/share]";
+			}
+			$_REQUEST['body'] = $post;
 			$_REQUEST['profile_uid'] = api_user();
 			$_REQUEST['type'] = 'wall';
 			$_REQUEST['api_source'] = true;
diff --git a/mod/admin.php b/mod/admin.php
index fffc8bf818..e7f579d4b9 100644
--- a/mod/admin.php
+++ b/mod/admin.php
@@ -649,9 +649,7 @@ function admin_page_site_post(App $a) {
 	$diaspora_enabled	=	((x($_POST,'diaspora_enabled'))		? True   					: False);
 	$ssl_policy		=	((x($_POST,'ssl_policy'))		? intval($_POST['ssl_policy']) 			: 0);
 	$force_ssl		=	((x($_POST,'force_ssl'))		? True   					: False);
-	$old_share		=	((x($_POST,'old_share'))		? True   					: False);
 	$hide_help		=	((x($_POST,'hide_help'))		? True   					: False);
-	$suppress_language	=	((x($_POST,'suppress_language'))	? True   					: False);
 	$suppress_tags		=	((x($_POST,'suppress_tags'))		? True   					: False);
 	$use_fulltext_engine	=	((x($_POST,'use_fulltext_engine'))	? True   					: False);
 	$itemcache		=	((x($_POST,'itemcache'))		? notags(trim($_POST['itemcache']))		: '');
@@ -734,7 +732,6 @@ function admin_page_site_post(App $a) {
 	set_config('config','sitename',$sitename);
 	set_config('config','hostname',$hostname);
 	set_config('config','sender_email', $sender_email);
-	set_config('system','suppress_language',$suppress_language);
 	set_config('system','suppress_tags',$suppress_tags);
 	set_config('system','shortcut_icon',$shortcut_icon);
 	set_config('system','touch_icon',$touch_icon);
@@ -805,7 +802,6 @@ function admin_page_site_post(App $a) {
 	set_config('config','private_addons', $private_addons);
 
 	set_config('system','force_ssl', $force_ssl);
-	set_config('system','old_share', $old_share);
 	set_config('system','hide_help', $hide_help);
 	set_config('system','use_fulltext_engine', $use_fulltext_engine);
 	set_config('system','itemcache', $itemcache);
@@ -996,7 +992,6 @@ function admin_page_site(App $a) {
 		'$theme_mobile' 	=> array('theme_mobile', t("Mobile system theme"), get_config('system','mobile-theme'), t("Theme for mobile devices"), $theme_choices_mobile),
 		'$ssl_policy'		=> array('ssl_policy', t("SSL link policy"), (string) intval(get_config('system','ssl_policy')), t("Determines whether generated links should be forced to use SSL"), $ssl_choices),
 		'$force_ssl'		=> array('force_ssl', t("Force SSL"), get_config('system','force_ssl'), t("Force all Non-SSL requests to SSL - Attention: on some systems it could lead to endless loops.")),
-		'$old_share'		=> array('old_share', t("Old style 'Share'"), get_config('system','old_share'), t("Deactivates the bbcode element 'share' for repeating items.")),
 		'$hide_help'		=> array('hide_help', t("Hide help entry from navigation menu"), get_config('system','hide_help'), t("Hides the menu entry for the Help pages from the navigation menu. You can still access it calling /help directly.")),
 		'$singleuser' 		=> array('singleuser', t("Single user instance"), get_config('system','singleuser'), t("Make this instance multi-user or single-user for the named user"), $user_names),
 		'$maximagesize'		=> array('maximagesize', t("Maximum image size"), get_config('system','maximagesize'), t("Maximum size in bytes of uploaded images. Default is 0, which means no limits.")),
@@ -1052,7 +1047,6 @@ function admin_page_site(App $a) {
 		'$nodeinfo'		=> array('nodeinfo', t("Publish server information"), get_config('system','nodeinfo'), t("If enabled, general server and usage data will be published. The data contains the name and version of the server, number of users with public profiles, number of posts and the activated protocols and connectors. See <a href='http://the-federation.info/'>the-federation.info</a> for details.")),
 
 		'$use_fulltext_engine'	=> array('use_fulltext_engine', t("Use MySQL full text engine"), get_config('system','use_fulltext_engine'), t("Activates the full text engine. Speeds up search - but can only search for four and more characters.")),
-		'$suppress_language'	=> array('suppress_language', t("Suppress Language"), get_config('system','suppress_language'), t("Suppress language information in meta information about a posting.")),
 		'$suppress_tags'	=> array('suppress_tags', t("Suppress Tags"), get_config('system','suppress_tags'), t("Suppress showing a list of hashtags at the end of the posting.")),
 		'$itemcache'		=> array('itemcache', t("Path to item cache"), get_config('system','itemcache'), t("The item caches buffers generated bbcode and external images.")),
 		'$itemcache_duration' 	=> array('itemcache_duration', t("Cache duration in seconds"), get_config('system','itemcache_duration'), t("How long should the cache files be hold? Default value is 86400 seconds (One day). To disable the item cache, set the value to -1.")),
diff --git a/mod/share.php b/mod/share.php
index 928ccdef26..36a4d5945f 100644
--- a/mod/share.php
+++ b/mod/share.php
@@ -15,28 +15,18 @@ function share_init(App $a) {
 	if(! dbm::is_result($r) || ($r[0]['private'] == 1))
 		killme();
 
-	if (!intval(get_config('system','old_share'))) {
-		if (strpos($r[0]['body'], "[/share]") !== false) {
-			$pos = strpos($r[0]['body'], "[share");
-			$o = substr($r[0]['body'], $pos);
-		} else {
-			$o = share_header($r[0]['author-name'], $r[0]['author-link'], $r[0]['author-avatar'], $r[0]['guid'], $r[0]['created'], $r[0]['plink']);
-
-			if($r[0]['title'])
-				$o .= '[b]'.$r[0]['title'].'[/b]'."\n";
-			$o .= $r[0]['body'];
-			$o.= "[/share]";
-		}
+	if (strpos($r[0]['body'], "[/share]") !== false) {
+		$pos = strpos($r[0]['body'], "[share");
+		$o = substr($r[0]['body'], $pos);
 	} else {
-		$o = '';
+		$o = share_header($r[0]['author-name'], $r[0]['author-link'], $r[0]['author-avatar'], $r[0]['guid'], $r[0]['created'], $r[0]['plink']);
 
-		$o .= "\xE2\x99\xb2" . ' [url=' . $r[0]['author-link'] . ']' . $r[0]['author-name'] . '[/url]' . "\n";
 		if($r[0]['title'])
-			$o .= '[b]' . $r[0]['title'] . '[/b]' . "\n";
-		$o .= $r[0]['body'] . "\n" ;
-
-		$o .= (($r[0]['plink']) ? '[url=' . $r[0]['plink'] . ']' . t('link') . '[/url]' . "\n" : '');
+			$o .= '[b]'.$r[0]['title'].'[/b]'."\n";
+		$o .= $r[0]['body'];
+		$o.= "[/share]";
 	}
+
 	echo $o;
 	killme();
 }
diff --git a/object/Item.php b/object/Item.php
index d95af3419a..b693520b93 100644
--- a/object/Item.php
+++ b/object/Item.php
@@ -287,32 +287,6 @@ class Item extends BaseObject {
 
 		localize_item($item);
 
-		if ($item["postopts"] and !get_config("system", "suppress_language")) {
-			//$langdata = explode(";", $item["postopts"]);
-			//$langstr = substr($langdata[0], 5)." (".round($langdata[1]*100, 1)."%)";
-			$langstr = "";
-			if (substr($item["postopts"], 0, 5) == "lang=") {
-				$postopts = substr($item["postopts"], 5);
-
-				$languages = explode(":", $postopts);
-
-				if (sizeof($languages) == 1) {
-					$languages = array();
-					$languages[] = $postopts;
-				}
-
-				foreach ($languages as $language) {
-					$langdata = explode(";", $language);
-					if ($langstr != "") {
-						$langstr .= ", ";
-					}
-
-					//$langstr .= $langdata[0]." (".round($langdata[1]*100, 1)."%)";
-					$langstr .= round($langdata[1]*100, 1)."% ".$langdata[0];
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
 		$body = prepare_body($item,true);
 
 		list($categories, $folders) = get_cats_and_terms($item);
@@ -420,7 +394,6 @@ class Item extends BaseObject {
 			'previewing'      => ($conv->is_preview() ? ' preview ' : ''),
 			'wait'            => t('Please wait'),
 			'thread_level'    => $thread_level,
-			'postopts'        => $langstr,
 			'edited'          => $edited,
 			'network'         => $item["item_network"],
 			'network_name'    => network_to_name($item['item_network'], $profile_link),
diff --git a/view/templates/admin_site.tpl b/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
index 2edfddb885..dfd7a1271d 100644
--- a/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/admin_site.tpl
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@
 	{{include file="field_select.tpl" field=$theme_mobile}}
 	{{include file="field_select.tpl" field=$ssl_policy}}
 	{{if $ssl_policy.2 == 1}}{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$force_ssl}}{{/if}}
-	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$old_share}}
 	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$hide_help}}
 	{{include file="field_select.tpl" field=$singleuser}}
 	<div class="submit"><input type="submit" name="page_site" value="{{$submit|escape:'html'}}" /></div>
@@ -132,7 +131,6 @@
 	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$lockpath}}
 	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$temppath}}
 	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$basepath}}
-	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$suppress_language}}
 	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$suppress_tags}}
 	{{include file="field_checkbox.tpl" field=$nodeinfo}}
 	{{include file="field_input.tpl" field=$embedly}}