From time to time I miss the links, but I have adopted a much more powerful version of the links. I don't know how you use your links, but I mainly used them to keep all of a device's IR commands in one location. This allowed me to easily change devices because I would not need to track down IR commands that may have been included in a macro somewhere. (I program multi-room customer units) The current database scheme obsoletes this link technique because one can easily replace one device with another and be confident that most, if not all, problem codes will be flagged (there can be some spelling issues with learned commands).