Use the middle mouse button to open the link on a new tab
you assume that the majority of users are using a mouse. times have changed my friend.
Ctrl+Left Click, or Cmd+Left Click for Mac
Touchpads have middle button emulation or physical buttons
If OP’s talking about Android, it’s a pity imo that he chose to use lemmy on the browser
It should be an option IMO, I prefer not ending up with loads of tabs. But definitely good to have the option for those who do.
Good news! It is going to be an option. Feature was merged into the back-end already - just need someone to update the UI.
Click with middle mouse button
I’m really glad they don’t! There’s so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it’s much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.
Agreed! Especially since the behavior on clicking a thumbnail isn’t very consistent on mobile. Sometimes I click the thumbnail and it expands the image. Sometimes it follows a link. Sometimes going back from a link takes me back to the same Lemmy page I was on, but other times it reloads the page and I can’t find the post I was looking at anymore. An option to open all links in a new tab would really help me not lose the post I was looking at when I clicked.
Me too! Yes, workarounds exist.
But I wonder, for who is it actually more convenient to override the current lemmy tab with the target?
I understand if it is used like some one-off search engine, to find a particular content and move on. But I assume most people use lemmy more as a permanent place. Wouldn’t it benefit more people to open links in a new tab by default?
I do, too. You should post your commentary on the GitHub issue.
I think a user script or extension could solve that. Im sure a lot of people on lemmy can make one. I hold ctrl while clicking links so this doesn’t bother me.
At least as a user preference.
I highly agree. So many times I click on links thinking I am going to expand an image only for it to navigate away from Lemmy altogether. I’d also like any image that is auto included from a link to another site to expand like a directly uploaded image would expand. Then only clicking on the link is what opens a new tab.
This is probably my biggest complaint with Lemmy. There are a number of Greasemoney scripts to improve things like that but I’ve had mixed results.
Click down on your scroll wheel with the mouse when hovering over a link to open in a new tab
