diff --git a/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
index 8c814db5e9c72ba159bc7ef96bc611e0d302b17f..115a3d9bbcdf971ffecbe820dd7c047d0cbc9e89 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dashboards_controller.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ class DashboardsController < ApplicationController
   
   before_filter :authenticate_user!, :except => [:receive, :hub, :host_meta]
   include ApplicationHelper
-  include DashboardsHelper
 
   def index
     @posts = Post.paginate :page => params[:page], :order => 'created_at DESC'
diff --git a/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb b/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76748837d7938244c04d9a337ddbd80a1f45f6fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+class PublicsController < ApplicationController
+  include ApplicationHelper
+  include PublicsHelper
+  
+  def hcard
+  end
+
+  def host_meta
+    @user = User.owner
+    render 'host_meta', :layout => false, :content_type => 'application/xrd+xml'
+  end
+
+  def webfinger
+    @user = Person.first(:email => params[:q])
+    render 'webfinger', :layout => false, :content_type => 'application/xrd+xml'
+  end
+  
+  def hubbub
+      if params['hub.mode'] == "subscribe"
+        render :text => params['hub.challenge'], :status => 202 
+      end
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb b/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
index dc181652a18882d6ab2b583ea97d0a449d2e70ef..28cd48d0e0f347525e4281099321455dedcd0246 100644
--- a/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/dashboards_helper.rb
@@ -1,19 +1,2 @@
 module DashboardsHelper
-
-    def subscribe(opts = {})
-      subscriber = Subscriber.first(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
-      subscriber ||= Subscriber.new(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
-
-      if subscriber.save
-
-        if opts[:verify] == 'sync'
-          204
-        elsif opts[:verify] == 'async'
-          202
-        end
-      else 
-        400
-      end
-    end
-
 end
diff --git a/app/helpers/publics_helper.rb b/app/helpers/publics_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e694adef9ed68bdaf8a01880d12a28e93fb559c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/helpers/publics_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+module PublicsHelper
+  def subscribe(opts = {})
+    subscriber = Subscriber.first(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
+    subscriber ||= Subscriber.new(:url => opts[:callback], :topic => opts[:topic])
+
+    if subscriber.save
+
+      if opts[:verify] == 'sync'
+        204
+      elsif opts[:verify] == 'async'
+        202
+      end
+    else 
+      400
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/models/subscriber.rb b/app/models/subscriber.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 19d234d2466f77c19948fe27fac421a72c96545f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/app/models/subscriber.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-class Subscriber
-  include MongoMapper::Document
-
-  key :url
-  key :topic
-
-  validates_presence_of :url, :topic
-
-end
diff --git a/app/views/publics/host_meta.erb b/app/views/publics/host_meta.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b6280e5c66c74cc07a928e36e0b38ff436bd803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/publics/host_meta.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0' 
+     xmlns:hm='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'>
+  <hm:Host xmlns='http://host-meta.net/xrd/1.0'><%=@user.url%></hm:Host>
+  <Link rel='lrdd' 
+        template='<%=@user.url%>webfinger/?q={uri}'>
+    <Title>Resource Descriptor</Title>
+  </Link>
+</XRD>
diff --git a/app/views/publics/webfinger.erb b/app/views/publics/webfinger.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebc8cbf029d3ec3fdb3cd9d43a013171e755cb76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/publics/webfinger.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<XRD xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0">
+  <Subject>acct:<%=@user.email%></Subject>
+  <Alias><%=@user.url%></Alias>
+  <Link rel="http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page" type="text/html" href="<%=@user.url%>public/profile"/>
+  <Link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from" type="application/atom+xml" href="<%=@user.url%>status_messages.atom"/>
+  <Link rel="http://microformats.org/profile/hcard" type="text/html" href="<%@user.url%>public/hcard"/>
+  //<Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-replies" href="http://identi.ca/main/salmon/user/169966"/>
+  //<Link rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-mention" href="http://identi.ca/main/salmon/user/169966"/>
+  //<Link rel="magic-public-key" href="data:application/magic-public-key,RSA.mGJbO8SYr9CSzfpI0TDLTvn7mnYWmTYcg4uP80rVh_lHJI-IGs7k9nb5XzGzyr4Ah8wHaxLVvmgdChw1eOd6VPDm58Bkpx9iwd9oMXwrrSBvlmE8grlzlb15GuvywPQJ7tCerNYGFNhtqBk1iUB5mue6UZAE0Y3ZaAgYfYNwITE=.AQAB"/>
+  <Link rel="http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe" template="http://identi.ca/main/ostatussub?profile={uri}"/>
+</XRD>
+
diff --git a/app/views/status_messages/_status_message.haml b/app/views/status_messages/_status_message.haml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1434ca0d2cb232a3cd56b21f85032eb9fe874e38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/status_messages/_status_message.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+%li.message{:id => post.id, :class => ("mine" if mine?(post))}
+  %span.from
+    = link_to post.person.real_name, post.person 
+    = auto_link post.message
+    
+  %div.time
+    = link_to(how_long_ago(post), status_message_path(post))
+    \--
+    = link_to "show comments (#{post.comments.count})", '#', :class => "show_post_comments"
+  = render   "comments/comments", :post => post 
+
+  - if mine?(post)
+    .destroy_link
+      = link_to 'Delete', status_message_path(post), :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete, :remote => true
diff --git a/config/initializers/socket.rb b/config/initializers/socket.rb
index 2f873be233e3b086e25bdccbc350279076b4ae73..aebf023f3a92e2cb8865f5dc3653b76d51fa8af1 100644
--- a/config/initializers/socket.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/socket.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 require 'em-websocket'
 require 'eventmachine'
 
-
-
 module WebSocket
   EM.next_tick {
     initialize_channel
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index d59627301be60651d19c07033b23245d0a7bb8bd..96f0a02312c77e2b398379471196cf5a85e71283 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Diaspora::Application.routes.draw do |map|
 
   resources :users
   match 'receive', :to => 'dashboards#receive'
-  match 'hub', :to => 'publics#hub'
+  match 'hub', :to => 'publics#hubbub'
   match '.well-known/host-meta', :to => 'publics#host_meta'
   match 'webfinger', :to => 'publics#webfinger'
   root :to => 'dashboards#index'
diff --git a/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
index 053dbdda027314661f6baa37800d1ed9e4d5ae9f..7b9a2857b14c7ae3ef5d729a02746b86f8af5cdf 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/dashboards_controller_spec.rb
@@ -15,45 +15,4 @@ describe DashboardsController do
     assigns[:friends].should == Person.friends.all
   end
 
-  describe 'PubSubHubBuB intergration' do 
-
-    describe 'incoming subscriptions' do
-      it 'should register a friend' do
-        Subscriber.all.count.should == 0 
-       
-        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
-                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
-                            :topic => '/status_messages',
-                            :verify => 'async'}
-        response.status.should == 202
-        
-        Subscriber.all.count.should == 1
-      end
-
-      it 'should keep track of what topic a subscriber wants' do 
-        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
-                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
-                            :topic => '/status_messages',
-                            :verify => 'async'}
-        Subscriber.first.topic.should == '/status_messages' 
-      end
-    end
-    
-    it 'should return a 204 for a sync request' do
-        post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
-                            :mode => 'subscribe', 
-                            :topic => '/status_messages',
-                            :verify => 'sync'}
-        response.status.should == 204
-    end
-    
-    it 'should confirm subscription of a sync request' do
-      post :hub,  {:callback => "http://example.com/", 
-                   :mode => 'subscribe', 
-                   :topic => '/status_messages',
-                   :verify => 'sync'}
-     
-    end
-
-  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/controllers/publics_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/publics_controller_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9539b4641fc42b80f5c0c000d8841b71b9974e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/controllers/publics_controller_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
+ 
+describe PublicsController do
+ render_views
+  
+  before do
+    @user = Factory.create(:user, :profile => Profile.create( :first_name => "bob", :last_name => "smith"))
+    request.env['warden'] = mock_model(Warden, :authenticate? => @user, :authenticate! => @user, :authenticate => @user)
+  end
+
+  describe 'PubSubHubBuB intergration' do 
+
+    describe 'incoming subscriptions' do
+      it 'should respond to a incoming subscription request' do
+       
+        get :hubbub,  {'hub.callback' => "http://example.com/", 
+                        'hub.mode' => 'subscribe', 
+                        'hub.topic' => '/status_messages',
+                        'hub.verify' => 'sync',
+                        'hub.challenge' => 'foobar'}
+        response.status.should == 202
+        response.body.should == 'foobar'
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb b/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 4cfad9bbe53a2560c88efe10b9b928573766f136..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/spec/models/subscriber_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
-
-describe Subscriber do
-  it 'should require a url' do
-    n = Subscriber.new
-    n.valid?.should be false
-    
-    n.topic = '/status_messages'
-    n.valid?.should be false
-
-    n.url = "http://clown.com/"
-
-    n.valid?.should be true
-  end
-end