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Open posts in new window by default? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Is it possible, or planned to have posts open in a new window by default?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's against accessibility guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I disagree because it is an external link.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

It's not an opinion. However it won't hurt to put an option in settings to toggle the behavior

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Doubt it's planned but hit Ctrl or click with the mouse wheel in the meantime?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

That is what I do, but often times forget to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I use middle click instead of left click 99% of the time when browsing the internet. You get used to it after a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Same, when I need to buy a mouse I choose them partially by how good their MMB works :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Could you mod me here so I can add an icon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Actually I cant, must be a bug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Ah yeah, its due to mod / admin hierarchy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Came to this community to ask this, not having this as an option breaks my flow. And the thing is, it would be extremely trivial to implement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

New windows? Not New tab?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It is up to the browser what to do with it. It generally is a link with target="_blank".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Oh, right. I'm sorry. My mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think it would be relatively easy to create a browser extension that modifies lemmy to do that (it could be part of something like a "lemmy enhancement suite" ).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Already on it ;)

Managed to achieve what OP is asking for, and adding a few more features in the 0.1 release. Should take a couple of days to publish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Sounds very interesting

Please post it here when it's ready to publish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Will do.

Current features:

  1. Option to open external links in a new tab
  2. Option to open internal links in a new tab
  3. Option to hide your username (your username will appear as "Anonymous" to anyone looking at your screen.
  4. Option to expand all images in the page with 1 click for easier browsing on the desktop.

Are there any simple features you would like to see in the first release?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Some simple RES features would be nice:

  1. tagging a user, e.g. i should be able to tag you as LES developer (LES being lemmy enhancement suite)

  2. showing the sums of upvotes and downvotes you gave to a certain user, e.g. the number "3" will appear next to the user name, clicking on it will showed you upvoted it 4 times and downvoted him 1 time.

You could see how the UX for these work by installing RES upvoting someone and licking on the number (should be +1).