Hello Every time I hit an interesting post, it opens whatever web page in the same tab lemmy was opened, and thus I loose lemmy.

Is there a way to configure lemmy to open links in a new tab instead of the actual lemmy tab?

  • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1611 months ago
    • Right click -> Open in new tab
    • Hold Ctrl when clicking the link
    • Click with the middle mouse button
    • Use any modern mobile browser
    • krolden
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      111 months ago

      How someone doesn’t know this in 2023 is surprising.

    • токи
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      110 months ago

      Reddit has option to always open in new tab, why doesn’t lemmy just copy every feature that reddit already has?

      • @nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        710 months ago

        Because we don’t have millions of usd in venture capital funding. Just donations and volunteer work.

  • Dessalines
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    411 months ago

    Tons of reasons why this is a really bad idea, and I’m staunchly against it.

    • It breaks accessibility.
    • Its completely unpredictable. Which clicks open new tabs, and which ones don’t? How do I know a click won’t open a new tab?
    • Having every click just open in the same tab is predictable, explicit, and is the norm for most of the web (except the annoying sites which open things in new tabs regardless of if we want them to).
    • Its super easy on any browser to do anything @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml recommended.
      • Sites that open things in new tabs don’t give you that choice. It opens in a new tab whether you wanted it to or not.
  • @Shikadi@wirebase.org
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    29 months ago

    My problem is that if I click on a text post thumbnail expecting it to expand the preview like with image posts, it opens the post instead

  • Peter1986C
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    11 months ago

    Are you using any of the phone apps, or a web browser? In order to help you we ned to know a little more about how you access Lemmy.

    Edit: probably you are accessing with a web browser, reading your post again.