Just dropping a note here that I merged in a change today which migrates the link_sections and links theme settings to type: objects which we recently just released.
https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-easy-footer/commit/3e06c5051b1d1c25001c45ae989c474b8c080791
We don’t expect things to break with this migration but if they do, please drop a note here to let me know.