Saw this phenomenon also with at least 2 other GNUsocial instances (they updated from SN): check if this fix (1) helps you. AND: please remember: #gnusocial is dev-version (and buggy), the last stable SN version is 1.1.1 (which might be less buggy ;-)) (1) http://oracle.skilledtests.com/conversation/253022#notice-429608