diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Notification/Processors/spreed/NextcloudTalkProcessor.java b/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Notification/Processors/spreed/NextcloudTalkProcessor.java
index 4a8c999..76e9b6f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Notification/Processors/spreed/NextcloudTalkProcessor.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Notification/Processors/spreed/NextcloudTalkProcessor.java
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ static private PendingIntent getReplyIntent(Context context,
         intent.putExtra("notification_id", rawNotification.getInt("notification_id"));
         intent.putExtra("notification_event", NOTIFICATION_EVENT_FASTREPLY);
         String[] link = rawNotification.getString("link").split("/"); // use provided link to extract talk chatroom id
-        intent.putExtra("talk_chatroom", cleanUpChatroom(link[link.length-1]));
-        intent.putExtra("talk_link", cleanUpChatroom(rawNotification.getString("link")));
+        intent.putExtra("talk_chatroom", CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(link[link.length-1]));
+        intent.putExtra("talk_link", CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(rawNotification.getString("link")));
 
         if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.S) {
             return PendingIntent.getBroadcast(
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ private NotificationBuilderResult setMessagingChatStyle(NotificationController c
                                                              NotificationBuilderResult builderResult,
                                                              @NonNull JSONObject rawNotification) throws Exception {
         Person person = getPersonFromNotification(controller, rawNotification);
-        final String room = cleanUpChatroom(rawNotification.getString("link"));
+        final String room = CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(rawNotification.getString("link"));
         final String title = rawNotification.getJSONObject("subjectRichParameters")
                 .getJSONObject("call").getString("name");
         final String text = rawNotification.getString("message");
@@ -252,20 +252,11 @@ public NotificationBuilderResult updateNotification(int id, NotificationBuilderR
         return builderResult;
     }
 
-    private static String cleanUpChatroom(@NonNull String chatroom){
-        String[] splits =  chatroom.split("#");
-        if(splits.length == 0){
-            return null;
-        } else {
-            return splits[0];
-        }
-    }
-
     private void onFastReply(Intent intent, NotificationController controller){
         final String chatroom =
-                cleanUpChatroom(
+                CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(
                         Objects.requireNonNull(intent.getStringExtra("talk_chatroom"))); // the string send by spreed is chatroomid
-        final String chatroom_link = cleanUpChatroom(
+        final String chatroom_link = CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(
                 Objects.requireNonNull(intent.getStringExtra("talk_link")));
         final int notification_id = intent.getIntExtra("notification_id", -1);
         if (notification_id < 0) {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Utils/CommonUtil.java b/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Utils/CommonUtil.java
index d2e9159..de22249 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Utils/CommonUtil.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/Utils/CommonUtil.java
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
 import android.util.Log;
 
+import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
+
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 
@@ -71,6 +73,15 @@ public static void safeSleep(long millis){
        }
     }
 
+    public static String cleanUpURLParams(@NonNull String chatroom){
+        String[] splits =  chatroom.split("#");
+        if(splits.length == 0){
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            return splits[0];
+        }
+    }
+
     public static long getTimestamp(){
        return System.currentTimeMillis();
     }
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/CommonUtilTest.java b/app/src/test/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/CommonUtilTest.java
index a96d775..81347f1 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/CommonUtilTest.java
+++ b/app/src/test/java/com/polar/nextcloudservices/CommonUtilTest.java
@@ -30,4 +30,16 @@ public void testInArray(){
         assertTrue(CommonUtil.isInArray(foo, items));
         assertFalse(CommonUtil.isInArray(bar, items));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCleanUpURLParams(){
+        assertEquals(CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(""), "");
+        assertEquals(CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams("https://example.com/#abcdef"),
+                "https://example.com/");
+        assertEquals(CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams("https://example.com/url/example#abcdef"),
+                "https://example.com/url/example");
+        assertEquals(CommonUtil.cleanUpURLParams(
+                "https://example.com/url/example?a=b&c=d&f=42#abcdef"),
+                "https://example.com/url/example?a=b&c=d&f=42");
+    }
 }