diff --git a/Code/Module/Search.php b/Code/Module/Search.php
index 73448a222..1e30177da 100644
--- a/Code/Module/Search.php
+++ b/Code/Module/Search.php
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Search extends Controller
             $j = Activity::fetch($search, $channel);
             if ($j) {
                 if (isset($j['type']) && ActivityStreams::is_an_actor($j['type'])) {
-                    Activity::actor_store($j['id'], $j);
+                    Activity::actor_store($j['id'], $j, true);
                     goaway(z_root() . '/directory' . '?f=1&navsearch=1&search=' . $search);
                 }
                 $AS = new ActivityStreams($j, null, true);
diff --git a/Code/Photo/PhotoImagick.php b/Code/Photo/PhotoImagick.php
index f006b71c9..127f9fc25 100644
--- a/Code/Photo/PhotoImagick.php
+++ b/Code/Photo/PhotoImagick.php
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ class PhotoImagick extends PhotoDriver
         if (! $this->is_valid()) {
             return false;
         }
-
         /* Clean it */
         $this->image = $this->image->deconstructImages();
         if ($animated) {
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index a8292d347..6afb0cfbd 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ function import_author_activitypub($x) {
     if($r) {
 		$ptr = null;
 		foreach($r as $rv) {
-			if (strpos($rv['xchan_network'], 'zot') !== false) {
+			if (strpos($rv['xchan_network'], 'zot') !== false || strpos($rv['xchan_network'], 'nomad') !== false) {
 				$ptr = $rv;
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/include/photo_factory.php b/include/photo_factory.php
index fbf1c7331..aea282baf 100644
--- a/include/photo_factory.php
+++ b/include/photo_factory.php
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ function delete_thing_photo($url, $ob_hash)
 /**
  * @brief Fetches a photo from external site and prepares its miniatures.
  *
- * @param string $photo
+ * @param string $src
  *    external URL to fetch base image
  * @param string $xchan
  *    channel unique hash
@@ -203,12 +203,14 @@ function delete_thing_photo($url, $ob_hash)
  * * \e string \b 3 => image type
  * * \e boolean \b 4 => TRUE if fetch failure
  */
-function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
+function import_remote_xchan_photo($src, $xchan, $thing = false)
 {
 
     $failure  = [];
     $type = EMPTY_STR;
 
+    logger(sprintf('importing %s for %s', $src, $xchan), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+    
     $animated = get_config('system', 'animated_avatars', true);
 
     $path = Hashpath::path((($thing) ? $src . $xchan : $xchan), 'cache/xp', 2);
@@ -243,6 +245,7 @@ function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
     if ($result['success']) {
         $type = guess_image_type($src, $result['header']);
         if ((! $type) || strpos($type, 'image') === false) {
+            logger('fetching type from file', LOGGER_DEBUG);
             @file_put_contents('cache/' . $hash, $result['body']);
             $info = getimagesize('cache/' . $hash);
             @unlink('cache/' . $hash);
@@ -271,7 +274,6 @@ function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
                 } else {
                     $failure[] = 'No dimensions';
                 }
-
                 $p = [
                     'xchan'       => $xchan,
                     'resource_id' => $hash,
@@ -281,7 +283,6 @@ function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
                     'imgscale'    => 4,
                     'edited'      => $modified,
                 ];
-
                 $savepath = $path . '-' . $p['imgscale'] . (($thing) ? '.obj' : EMPTY_STR);
                 $r = $img->saveImage($savepath, $animated);
                 if ($r === false) {
@@ -314,7 +315,7 @@ function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
         $failure[] = $result['error'];
         $failure[] = print_array($result['debug']);
     }
-
+    
     if ($failure) {
         logger('failed: ' . $photo);
         logger('failure: ' . print_r($failure,true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ function import_remote_xchan_photo($photo, $xchan, $thing = false)
         unlink($path . '.log');
     }
 
+    logger('cached photo: ' . $photo, LOGGER_DEBUG);    
     return([$photo, $thumb, $micro, $type, ($failure ? true : false)]);
 }