I’m trying to wrap my head around what exactly is going on, so this will probably be back and forth dialogue for a bit…
In my filters for categories, I have:
JuTaRo’s profile • Letterboxd which takes you to my reviews. This works and MB picks it up, but the posts are filed under “Photos” and not “Movies” which is what I have:
The movie posters from letterboxd are then automatically uploaded to my Uploads section, and I see them among my photos, which I do not want.
I already unchecked the box “Filter new uploaded photos into category: Photos” on the categories section.
This set up used to work for me in the past. I believe that after I updated something, it broke somehow. What do I need to look into to fix this so my movies are automatically in the movies category and not photos, without the photos in the Upload section?
I think what is happening here is you have your Letterboxd RSS feed set in Micro.blog → Sources to add the movie posts as blog posts. Micro.blog “helpfully” also copies any photos (movie posters) in the posts to your blog too. Then the filter sees the “photo” and assigns the category.
However, if you disabled the filter for photos and only use the emoji, that should not be happening any more.
If you don’t want the movie posters copied but do want the posts copied to your blog, we would need to add a new option to not copy them as photos.
I think another improvement to filters would be to make one exclusive, in other words if the Letterboxd / Movies filter matched, no other filters would be applied.
So what you’re saying is that movie posters are uploaded to my uploads section if I set my Letterboxd’s feed on Micro.blog as a post, which doesn’t mean it will be on my photo page - that last part depends on my filter.
And these pictures of these older movies that I reviewed are not in my uploads section.
So… something changed at some point. The way it used to work is how I’d prefer it to work now (if possible) - I understand that these movies being captured in my photo page is another issue on top of this one probably.
Yes-- Manton changed this to not hotlink to the source (because the source can be removed, and hotlinking I think is still broadly frowned upon) so that posting to your blog means pulling in all the content necessary to construct a copy of that post.
Well if that’s the case, I don’t mind keeping them in my uploads as long as they are not in the photo section, which is a filter problem then. I’ll try to fix.
emoji, that should not be happening any more.
