Restore visibility of deprecated categories #570
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Previously, in order to reduce the clutter of the forum's category structure, the permissions of these deprecated categories were configured to cause them to not be publicly visible. Since then, the alternative approach has been adopted of moving deprecated categories under a "Recycle Bin" category, which is public but not shown in the primary topic listings. The previous approach is potentially harmful in that it would break any links to the category itself (though not to the posts that had been moved out of the category, since post URLs are not category-dependent). Making the categories visible once more avoids the breakage of any links to the category.
The project infrastructure includes a check for broken links. Some of the links in the content are to pages which are not publicly accessible. These would cause spurious failures of the link check, so the link checker tool must be configured to ignore those URLs. Some of the ignore entries are no longer necessary, either due to the page having been made publicly accessible, or the link removed from the content. These obsolete entries are hereby removed from the link checker configuration to keep it tidy and ensure comprehensive coverage of the links.
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Previously, in order to reduce the clutter of the forum's category structure, the permissions of these deprecated categories were configured to cause them to not be publicly visible.
Since then, the alternative approach has been adopted of moving deprecated categories under a "Recycle Bin" category, which is public but not shown in the primary topic listings. The previous approach is potentially harmful in that it would break any links to the category itself (though not to the posts that had been moved out of the category, since post URLs are not category-dependent).
Making the categories visible once more avoids the breakage of any links to the category.