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A possible extension of this hack, although I think it would be far more trouble than it's worth, is to get the actual/virtual link counts for each category (and subcategories) reflected ($Number_of_Links; haven't found where that gets assigned yet).

For example, my current setup shows all links in a category in the count, which might be seen as misleading or confusing if some of them are in the virtual category. If the count for that category showed just the active links (or just the inactive ones if browsing the virtual categories), that would be more intuitive.

Similarly, the link in category.html to jump between actual and virtual categories could have an extra conditional layer that only shows the virtual link if there are dead links in the category. It could also show the number of such links, sort of like the links to the Reviews pages.

I suspect a number of extra database queries would be required to pull it off, though.

Dan
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