diff --git a/src/components/structures/TimelinePanel.js b/src/components/structures/TimelinePanel.js
index ba67d3cd43..adad8bc060 100644
--- a/src/components/structures/TimelinePanel.js
+++ b/src/components/structures/TimelinePanel.js
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
     sendReadReceipt: function() {
         if (!this.refs.messagePanel) return;
 
-        var currentReadUpToEventId = this._getCurrentReadReceipt();
+        var currentReadUpToEventId = this._getCurrentReadReceipt(true);
         var currentReadUpToEventIndex = this._indexForEventId(currentReadUpToEventId);
 
         // We want to avoid sending out read receipts when we are looking at
@@ -396,15 +396,20 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
 
     /**
      * get the id of the event corresponding to our user's latest read-receipt.
+     *
+     * @param {Boolean} ignoreSynthesized If true, return only receipts that
+     *                                    have been sent by the server, not
+     *                                    implicit ones generated by the JS
+     *                                    SDK.
      */
-    _getCurrentReadReceipt: function() {
+    _getCurrentReadReceipt: function(ignoreSynthesized) {
         var client = MatrixClientPeg.get();
         // the client can be null on logout
         if (client == null)
             return null;
 
         var myUserId = client.credentials.userId;
-        return this.props.room.getEventReadUpTo(myUserId);
+        return this.props.room.getEventReadUpTo(myUserId, ignoreSynthesized);
     },
 
 
diff --git a/src/linkify-matrix.js b/src/linkify-matrix.js
index abb51e85d8..7fb043f800 100644
--- a/src/linkify-matrix.js
+++ b/src/linkify-matrix.js
@@ -114,6 +114,17 @@ matrixLinkify.options = {
                     }
                 };
         }
+    },
+
+    formatHref: function (href, type) {
+        switch (type) {
+             case 'roomalias':
+                 return '#/room/' + href;
+             case 'userid':
+                 return '#';
+             default:
+                 return href;
+        }
     }
 };