Is it possible, or planned to have posts open in a new window by default?

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    4·
    3 years ago

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

    • dragnucsOP
      5·
      3 years ago

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

      • 56!
        2·
        3 years ago

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

        • pinknoise
          2·
          3 years ago

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

    • dragnucsOP
      6·
      3 years ago

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

  • MarcellusDrum
    2·
    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.

  • wiki_me
    1·
    3 years ago

    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” ).

    • MarcellusDrum
      3·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • wiki_me
        2·
        3 years ago

        Sounds very interesting

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

        • MarcellusDrum
          3·
          3 years ago

          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?

          • wiki_me
            2·
            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).