diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/actions/search.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/actions/search.jsx
index 9d28ed11ea..df3ae0db1a 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/actions/search.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/actions/search.jsx
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ export function submitSearch() {
   return (dispatch, getState) => {
     const value = getState().getIn(['search', 'value']);
 
+    if (value.length === 0) {
+      return;
+    }
+
     dispatch(fetchSearchRequest());
 
     api(getState).get('/api/v1/search', {
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/components/search.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/components/search.jsx
index 8e86f053e4..936e003f22 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/components/search.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/components/search.jsx
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const Search = React.createClass({
 
   propTypes: {
     value: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired,
+    submitted: React.PropTypes.bool,
     onChange: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
     onSubmit: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
     onClear: React.PropTypes.func.isRequired,
@@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ const Search = React.createClass({
   },
 
   render () {
-    const { intl, value } = this.props;
-    const hasValue = value.length > 0;
+    const { intl, value, submitted } = this.props;
+    const hasValue = value.length > 0 || submitted;
 
     return (
       <div className='search'>
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/containers/search_container.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/containers/search_container.jsx
index 96709215af..906c0c28c4 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/containers/search_container.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/containers/search_container.jsx
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import {
 import Search from '../components/search';
 
 const mapStateToProps = state => ({
-  value: state.getIn(['search', 'value'])
+  value: state.getIn(['search', 'value']),
+  submitted: state.getIn(['search', 'submitted'])
 });
 
 const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/index.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/index.jsx
index d21e7a9bc1..d4df259dcd 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/index.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/compose/index.jsx
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ const Compose = React.createClass({
             <ComposeFormContainer />
           </div>
 
-          <Motion defaultStyle={{ x: -300 }} style={{ x: spring(showSearch ? 0 : -300, { stiffness: 210, damping: 20 }) }}>
+          <Motion defaultStyle={{ x: -100 }} style={{ x: spring(showSearch ? 0 : -100, { stiffness: 210, damping: 20 }) }}>
             {({ x }) =>
-              <div className='drawer__inner darker' style={{ transform: `translateX(${x}px)` }}>
+              <div className='drawer__inner darker' style={{ transform: `translateX(${x}%)` }}>
                 <SearchResultsContainer />
               </div>
             }
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/getting_started/index.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/getting_started/index.jsx
index 6f9e988ba1..8253ad017b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/getting_started/index.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/features/getting_started/index.jsx
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ const GettingStarted = ({ intl, me }) => {
 
       <div className='scrollable optionally-scrollable' style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column' }}>
         <div className='static-content getting-started'>
-          <p><FormattedMessage id='getting_started.about_addressing' defaultMessage='You can follow people if you know their username and the domain they are on by entering an e-mail-esque address into the form at the top of the sidebar.' /></p>
-          <p><FormattedMessage id='getting_started.about_shortcuts' defaultMessage='If the target user is on the same domain as you, just the username will work. The same rule applies to mentioning people in statuses.' /></p>
           <p><FormattedMessage id='getting_started.open_source_notice' defaultMessage='Mastodon is open source software. You can contribute or report issues on github at {github}. {apps}.' values={{ github: <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon" target="_blank">tootsuite/mastodon</a>, apps: <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-Mastodon/Apps.md" target="_blank"><FormattedMessage id='getting_started.apps' defaultMessage='Various apps are available' /></a> }} /></p>
         </div>
       </div>
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/relationships.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/relationships.jsx
index 591f8034be..c65c48b431 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/relationships.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/relationships.jsx
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ const initialState = Immutable.Map();
 
 export default function relationships(state = initialState, action) {
   switch(action.type) {
-    case ACCOUNT_FOLLOW_SUCCESS:
-    case ACCOUNT_UNFOLLOW_SUCCESS:
-    case ACCOUNT_BLOCK_SUCCESS:
-    case ACCOUNT_UNBLOCK_SUCCESS:
-    case ACCOUNT_MUTE_SUCCESS:
-    case ACCOUNT_UNMUTE_SUCCESS:
-      return normalizeRelationship(state, action.relationship);
-    case RELATIONSHIPS_FETCH_SUCCESS:
-      return normalizeRelationships(state, action.relationships);
-    default:
-      return state;
+  case ACCOUNT_FOLLOW_SUCCESS:
+  case ACCOUNT_UNFOLLOW_SUCCESS:
+  case ACCOUNT_BLOCK_SUCCESS:
+  case ACCOUNT_UNBLOCK_SUCCESS:
+  case ACCOUNT_MUTE_SUCCESS:
+  case ACCOUNT_UNMUTE_SUCCESS:
+    return normalizeRelationship(state, action.relationship);
+  case RELATIONSHIPS_FETCH_SUCCESS:
+    return normalizeRelationships(state, action.relationships);
+  default:
+    return state;
   }
 };
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/components.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/components.scss
index 9c138e4958..d7589d9b01 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/components.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/components.scss
@@ -1120,9 +1120,8 @@ a.status__content__spoiler-link {
   box-sizing: border-box;
   overflow-y: auto;
   padding-bottom: 235px;
-  background: image-url('mastodon-getting-started.png') no-repeat bottom left;
-  height: auto;
-  min-height: 100%;
+  background: image-url('mastodon-getting-started.png') no-repeat 0 100% local;
+  height: 100%;
 
   p {
     color: $color2;
@@ -1793,6 +1792,10 @@ button.active i.fa-retweet {
     &.active {
       transform: translateZ(0) rotate(90deg);
     }
+
+    &:hover {
+      color: $color5;
+    }
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/app/services/search_service.rb b/app/services/search_service.rb
index 159c037137..e9745010b0 100644
--- a/app/services/search_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/search_service.rb
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 class SearchService < BaseService
   def call(query, limit, resolve = false, account = nil)
-    return if query.blank?
-
     results = { accounts: [], hashtags: [], statuses: [] }
 
+    return results if query.blank?
+
     if query =~ /\Ahttps?:\/\//
       resource = FetchRemoteResourceService.new.call(query)