diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/notifications.jsx b/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/notifications.jsx
index 6ba4532923..bdd2de993a 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/notifications.jsx
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/components/reducers/notifications.jsx
@@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ import Immutable                                    from 'immutable';
 
 const initialState = Immutable.List();
 
+function notificationFromError(state, error) {
+  let n = Immutable.Map({
+    message: ''
+  });
+
+  if (error.response) {
+    n = n.withMutations(map => {
+      map.set('message', error.response.statusText);
+      map.set('title', `${error.response.status}`);
+    });
+  } else {
+    n = n.set('message', `${error}`);
+  }
+
+  return state.push(n);
+};
+
 export default function meta(state = initialState, action) {
   switch(action.type) {
     case COMPOSE_SUBMIT_FAIL:
@@ -15,10 +32,7 @@ export default function meta(state = initialState, action) {
     case REBLOG_FAIL:
     case FAVOURITE_FAIL:
     case TIMELINE_REFRESH_FAIL:
-      return state.push(Immutable.fromJS({
-        message: action.error.response.statusText,
-        title: `${action.error.response.status}`
-      }));
+      return notificationFromError(state, action.error);
     case NOTIFICATION_DISMISS:
       return state.clear();
     default:
diff --git a/app/controllers/api/follows_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/follows_controller.rb
index 604e655656..dbd44cc546 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/follows_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/follows_controller.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ class Api::FollowsController < ApiController
       raise ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound
     end
 
-    @follow = FollowService.new.(current_user.account, params[:uri])
+    @account = FollowService.new.(current_user.account, params[:uri]).try(:target_account)
     render action: :show
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb b/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
index c4330d7cf3..0e23ed7d2b 100644
--- a/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
+++ b/app/services/follow_remote_account_service.rb
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ class FollowRemoteAccountService < BaseService
     account = Account.find_remote(username, domain)
 
     if account.nil?
+      Rails.logger.debug "Creating new remote account for #{uri}"
       account = Account.new(username: username, domain: domain)
     elsif account.subscribed?
+      Rails.logger.debug "Already subscribed to remote account #{uri}"
       return account
     end
 
@@ -29,7 +31,10 @@ class FollowRemoteAccountService < BaseService
     feed = get_feed(account.remote_url)
     hubs = feed.xpath('//xmlns:link[@rel="hub"]')
 
-    return nil if hubs.empty? || hubs.first.attribute('href').nil? || feed.at_xpath('/xmlns:feed/xmlns:author/xmlns:uri').nil?
+    if hubs.empty? || hubs.first.attribute('href').nil? || feed.at_xpath('/xmlns:feed/xmlns:author/xmlns:uri').nil?
+      Rails.logger.debug "Cannot find PuSH hub or author for #{uri}"
+      return nil
+    end
 
     account.uri     = feed.at_xpath('/xmlns:feed/xmlns:author/xmlns:uri').content
     account.hub_url = hubs.first.attribute('href').value
@@ -49,6 +54,7 @@ class FollowRemoteAccountService < BaseService
 
     return account
   rescue Goldfinger::Error, HTTP::Error
+    Rails.logger.debug "Error while fetching data for #{uri}"
     nil
   end
 
diff --git a/app/views/api/follows/show.rabl b/app/views/api/follows/show.rabl
index e5b52b828b..0f24ddb4d5 100644
--- a/app/views/api/follows/show.rabl
+++ b/app/views/api/follows/show.rabl
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-object @follow.target_account
+object @account
 extends('api/accounts/show')