Categories from feed categories?

[z428]

Alls;

I’m using micro.blog mostly to import stuff off my own Bludit blog and keep it here, both for long-term archiving and (maybe) for making micro.blog my only environment once it can post full-length stuff over to Mastodon/Friendica. So far, my blog provides a feed like this …

https://status.z428.eu/rss.xml

… with Hashtags being included as elements. I tried filtering posts, this way, into micro.blog categories all along this documentation …

Categories from hashtags

Categories in Micro.blog are a great way to organize your posts. When you use categories, visitors to your blog can browse just those posts, and you can also provide RSS feeds for specific categories. Some apps such as iA Writer use hashtags to organize posts. When you publish to Micro.blog, those tags will be included in the blog post content. You can use Micro.blog filters to automatically assign categories based on those tags. Here’s what a post might look like in iA Writer, using the hasht…

… but failed. So, wondering: Is this supposed to work? Would it be possible to support such an approach? Or do I really have to include hashtags in the actual text content?
Thanks very much,
Kristian

[manton]

When adding a feed to Sources and choosing the import option, categories currently aren’t recognized. However, if this is more like a one-time import, have you tried importing it under Posts → “…” → Import as a WordPress file? WordPress’s format is (more or less) RSS, and that importer does recognize categories.

We should improve the feed importer to recognize categories, though.

[z428]

Ah ok, thanks. It’s a permanent sync so far unfortunately, still relying on my blog for crossposting full length posts to ActivityPub/Friendica.