diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/store/configureStore.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/store/configureStore.jsx
index 6f0823bf0..ad0427b52 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/store/configureStore.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/store/configureStore.jsx
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ import appReducer from '../reducers';
 import loadingBarMiddleware from '../middleware/loading_bar';
 import errorsMiddleware from '../middleware/errors';
 import soundsMiddleware from 'redux-sounds';
+import Howler from 'howler';
 import Immutable from 'immutable';
 
+Howler.mobileAutoEnable = false;
+
 const soundsData = {
   boop: '/sounds/boop.mp3'
 };
diff --git a/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb b/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
index f640222b0..d17cf0f45 100644
--- a/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ class FollowRemoteAccountService < BaseService
     username, domain = uri.split('@')
 
     return Account.find_local(username) if TagManager.instance.local_domain?(domain)
-    return nil if DomainBlock.blocked?(domain)
 
     account = Account.find_remote(username, domain)
     return account unless account.nil?
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ class FollowRemoteAccountService < BaseService
     account.url         = data.link('http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page').href
     account.public_key  = magic_key_to_pem(data.link('magic-public-key').href)
     account.private_key = nil
+    account.suspended   = true if DomainBlock.blocked?(domain)
 
     xml  = get_feed(account.remote_url)
     hubs = get_hubs(xml)
diff --git a/app/services/process_feed_service.rb b/app/services/process_feed_service.rb
index 4466abda3..fad03e580 100644
--- a/app/services/process_feed_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/process_feed_service.rb
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class ProcessFeedService < BaseService
       status.save!
 
       NotifyService.new.call(status.reblog.account, status) if status.reblog? && status.reblog.account.local?
-      LinkCrawlWorker.perform_async(status.reblog? ? status.reblog_of_id : status.id)
+      # LinkCrawlWorker.perform_async(status.reblog? ? status.reblog_of_id : status.id)
       Rails.logger.debug "Queuing remote status #{status.id} (#{id}) for distribution"
       DistributionWorker.perform_async(status.id)
       status
diff --git a/app/services/update_remote_profile_service.rb b/app/services/update_remote_profile_service.rb
index d961eda39..cfa547996 100644
--- a/app/services/update_remote_profile_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/update_remote_profile_service.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class UpdateRemoteProfileService < BaseService
     unless author_xml.nil?
       account.display_name      = author_xml.at_xpath('./poco:displayName', poco: TagManager::POCO_XMLNS).content unless author_xml.at_xpath('./poco:displayName', poco: TagManager::POCO_XMLNS).nil?
       account.note              = author_xml.at_xpath('./poco:note', poco: TagManager::POCO_XMLNS).content unless author_xml.at_xpath('./poco:note', poco: TagManager::POCO_XMLNS).nil?
-      account.avatar_remote_url = author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS)['href'] unless author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS).nil? || author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS)['href'].blank?
+      account.avatar_remote_url = author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS)['href'] unless author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS).nil? || author_xml.at_xpath('./xmlns:link[@rel="avatar"]', xmlns: TagManager::XMLNS)['href'].blank? || account.suspended?
     end
 
     old_hub_url     = account.hub_url