It is a simple line of code and the entire site does this or add target=“_blank” to every hyperlink, and it will do the same thing. It sucks that you have to right-click every link to open in a new tab or window and it is such a simple fix.
Laptops don’t have middle clicks.
Everyone knows the various workarounds. You don’t need to post them. This thread is about a problem that ought not to exist.
So now I need to buy a mouse and sit at a desk in order to use Lemmy?
C’mon. No other site behaves like this. It needs to be fixed.
“To own a mouse, one must first buy a mouse.”
- Carl Sagan
Once you’ve crawled under that hurdle, you buy a hard mouse pad. Mine’s steel covered with a thin layer of plastic. Works great on the arm of a couch or just on a pillow.
Now you can play first person shooters on the couch! Without the horrors of a controller.
Navigating the web is easier. Everything is easier! It’s dreamy. Give it a try sometime.
I think that forcing links to create new tabs world be a problem. Links working the default, normal way is a feature, not a bug.
Thats subjective. Different people have different opinions on how this should work. Making the default open in the current tab still allows you to have the alternate behaviour with ctrl+click or middle-click. The reverse does not.
A simple checkbox in the settings allows users to choose which option they’d prefer.
“just add a setting” is generally bad software design. If you have a million toggle switches, it makes it difficult to test the various combinations.
Sometimes an option is useful enough that it’s worth adding to settings. I don’t think this is one of them. Just use middle click or Ctrl+click or back arrow.
