diff --git a/boot.php b/boot.php
index 3b7409b1a..3d6f1f3f7 100644
--- a/boot.php
+++ b/boot.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ require_once('include/features.php');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_PLATFORM',     'Friendica Red');
 define ( 'FRIENDICA_VERSION',      trim(file_get_contents('version.inc')) . 'R');
 define ( 'ZOT_REVISION',               1     ); 
-define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',       1029     );
+define ( 'DB_UPDATE_VERSION',       1030     );
 
 define ( 'EOL',                    '<br />' . "\r\n"     );
 define ( 'ATOM_TIME',              'Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z' );
diff --git a/include/Contact.php b/include/Contact.php
index 7febe310d..36f4cbcf7 100644
--- a/include/Contact.php
+++ b/include/Contact.php
@@ -153,6 +153,66 @@ function channel_remove($channel_id) {
 
 }
 
+function remove_all_xchan_resources($xchan, $channel_id = 0) {
+
+	if(intval($channel_id)) {
+
+
+
+	}
+	else {
+
+		// this is somewhat destructive
+// FIXME
+		// We don't want to be quite as destructive on directories, which will need to mirror the action 
+		// and we also don't want to completely destroy an xchan that has moved to a new primary location
+
+		$r = q("delete from photo where xchan = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("select resource_id, resource_type, uid, id from item where ( author_xchan = '%s' or owner_xchan = '%s' ) ",
+			dbesc($xchan),
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		if($r) {
+			foreach($r as $rr) {
+				drop_item($rr,false);
+			}
+		}
+		$r = q("delete from event where event_xchan = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from group_member where xchan = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from mail where ( from_xchan = '%s' or to_xchan = '%s' )",
+			dbesc($xchan),
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from xlink where ( xlink_xchan = '%s' or xlink_link = '%s' )",
+			dbesc($xchan),
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+
+
+		$r = q("delete from xchan where xchan_hash = '%s' limit 1",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from hubloc where hubloc_hash = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from abook where abook_xchan = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+		$r = q("delete from xtag where xtag_hash = '%s'",
+			dbesc($xchan)
+		);
+
+	}
+}
+
+
+
 
 function contact_remove($channel_id, $abook_id) {
 
diff --git a/include/gprobe.php b/include/gprobe.php
index 25b56525a..2cc87d149 100644
--- a/include/gprobe.php
+++ b/include/gprobe.php
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ function gprobe_run($argv, $argc){
 
 	if(! $r) {
 		$x = zot_finger($url,null);
-		if($x) {
-			$j = json_decode($x,true);
+		if($x['success']) {
+			$j = json_decode($x['body'],true);
 			$y = import_xchan($j);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 59bb58eaa..3fd43ca4e 100755
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -4265,6 +4265,14 @@ function delete_item_lowlevel($item) {
 		intval($item['uid'])
 	);
 
+	q("delete from term where oid = %d and otype = %d",
+		intval($item['id']),
+		intval(TERM_OBJ_POST)
+	);
+
+// FIXME remove notifications for this item
+
+
 	return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/install/database.sql b/install/database.sql
index 3deb96c21..7fd200017 100644
--- a/install/database.sql
+++ b/install/database.sql
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `channel` (
   `channel_prvkey` text NOT NULL,
   `channel_notifyflags` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '65535',
   `channel_pageflags` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
+  `channel_deleted` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
   `channel_max_anon_mail` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '10',
   `channel_max_friend_req` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '10',
   `channel_expire_days` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
@@ -209,7 +210,8 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `channel` (
   KEY `channel_r_storage` (`channel_r_storage`),
   KEY `channel_w_storage` (`channel_w_storage`),
   KEY `channel_r_pages` (`channel_r_pages`),
-  KEY `channel_w_pages` (`channel_w_pages`)
+  KEY `channel_w_pages` (`channel_w_pages`),
+  KEY `channel_deleted` (`channel_deleted`)
 ) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 
 CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `clients` (
diff --git a/install/update.php b/install/update.php
index 7c755dd2d..290b80cd1 100644
--- a/install/update.php
+++ b/install/update.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-define( 'UPDATE_VERSION' , 1029 );
+define( 'UPDATE_VERSION' , 1030 );
 
 /**
  *
@@ -357,3 +357,11 @@ ADD INDEX ( `xlink_rating` ) ");
 		return UPDATE_SUCCESS;
 	return UPDATE_FAILED;
 }
+
+function update_r1029() {
+	$r = q("ALTER TABLE `channel` ADD `channel_deleted` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' AFTER `channel_pageflags` ,
+ADD INDEX ( `channel_deleted` ) ");
+	if($r)
+		return UPDATE_SUCCESS;
+	return UPDATE_FAILED;
+}
diff --git a/mod/post.php b/mod/post.php
index b7c16ff9a..e5fa1a418 100644
--- a/mod/post.php
+++ b/mod/post.php
@@ -236,6 +236,31 @@ function post_post(&$a) {
 	if(array_key_exists('recipients',$data))
 		$recipients = $data['recipients'];
 
+
+	if($msgtype === 'purge') {
+		if($recipients) {
+			// basically this means "unfriend"
+			foreach($recipients as $recip) {
+
+
+
+			}
+
+
+		}
+		else {
+			// basically this means the channel has committed suicide
+			$arr = $data['sender'];
+			$sender_hash = base64url_encode(hash('whirlpool',$arr['guid'] . $arr['guid_sig'], true));
+		
+			require_once('include/Contact.php');
+			remove_all_xchan_resources($sender_hash);	
+
+			$ret['result'] = true;
+			json_return_and_die($ret);
+
+		}
+	}
 	if($msgtype === 'refresh') {
 
 		// remote channel info (such as permissions or photo or something)
diff --git a/version.inc b/version.inc
index abe9cf720..7e1699df2 100644
--- a/version.inc
+++ b/version.inc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2013-02-16.226
+2013-02-18.228
diff --git a/view/css/default.css b/view/css/default.css
index 19eeb9a68..f3b34a86d 100644
--- a/view/css/default.css
+++ b/view/css/default.css
@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@ section {
 	left: 250px;
 	display: block;
 	right: 15px;
+	padding-bottom: 350px;
 }
+
+
diff --git a/view/tpl/channel_import.tpl b/view/tpl/channel_import.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8002b6e03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/view/tpl/channel_import.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<h2>$title</h2>
+
+<form action="import" method="post" id="import-channel-form">
+
+	<div id="import-desc" class="descriptive-paragraph">$desc</div>
+
+	<label for="import-filename" id="label-import-filename" class="import-label" >$label_filename</label>
+	<input type="file" name="filename" id="import-filename" class="import-input" value="" />
+	<div id="import-filename-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<div id="import-choice" class="descriptive-paragraph">$choice</div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-address" id="label-import-old-address" class="import-label" >$label_old_address</label>
+	<input type="text" name="old_address" id="import-old-address" class="import-input" value="" />
+	<div id="import-old-address-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-email" id="label-import-old-email" class="import-label" >$label_old_email</label>
+	<input type="text" name="email" id="import-old-email" class="import-input" value="$email" />
+	<div id="import-old-email-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-pass" id="label-import-old-pass" class="import-label" >$label_old_pass</label>
+	<input type="password" name="password" id="import-old-pass" class="import-input" value="$pass" />
+	<div id="import-old-pass-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<div id="import-common-desc" class="descriptive-paragraph">$common</div>
+
+	<input type="checkbox" name="make_primary" id="import-make-primary" value="1" />
+	<label for="import-make-primary" id="label-import-make-primary">$label_import_primary</label>
+	<div id="import-make-primary-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<input type="submit" name="submit" id="import-submit-button" value="$submit" />
+	<div id="import-submit-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+</form>
+
diff --git a/view/tpl/smarty3/channel_import.tpl b/view/tpl/smarty3/channel_import.tpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..872f039b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/view/tpl/smarty3/channel_import.tpl
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{{*
+ *	AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED TEMPLATE
+ *	DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
+ *
+ *}}
+<h2>{{$title}}</h2>
+
+<form action="import" method="post" id="import-channel-form">
+
+	<div id="import-desc" class="descriptive-paragraph">{{$desc}}</div>
+
+	<label for="import-filename" id="label-import-filename" class="import-label" >{{$label_filename}}</label>
+	<input type="file" name="filename" id="import-filename" class="import-input" value="" />
+	<div id="import-filename-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<div id="import-choice" class="descriptive-paragraph">{{$choice}}</div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-address" id="label-import-old-address" class="import-label" >{{$label_old_address}}</label>
+	<input type="text" name="old_address" id="import-old-address" class="import-input" value="" />
+	<div id="import-old-address-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-email" id="label-import-old-email" class="import-label" >{{$label_old_email}}</label>
+	<input type="text" name="email" id="import-old-email" class="import-input" value="{{$email}}" />
+	<div id="import-old-email-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<label for="import-old-pass" id="label-import-old-pass" class="import-label" >{{$label_old_pass}}</label>
+	<input type="password" name="password" id="import-old-pass" class="import-input" value="{{$pass}}" />
+	<div id="import-old-pass-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<div id="import-common-desc" class="descriptive-paragraph">{{$common}}</div>
+
+	<input type="checkbox" name="make_primary" id="import-make-primary" value="1" />
+	<label for="import-make-primary" id="label-import-make-primary">{{$label_import_primary}}</label>
+	<div id="import-make-primary-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+	<input type="submit" name="submit" id="import-submit-button" value="{{$submit}}" />
+	<div id="import-submit-end" class="import-field-end"></div>
+
+</form>
+