It's literally a matter of adding target="_blank" to an a tag.
Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
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Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#2Why should a link open in a new tab? Users here are technical enough to ctrl-click to open a new tab.
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#3You're talking about a subjective preference as thought it's an objective absolute.
Personally I prefer how it is. If I want it in a separate tab then I'll middle click or ctrl/cmd+click. As far as I know there's no keyboard shortcut which forces a `target=_blank` links to open in the _same tab_ when I want that behaviour.
The one I can't stand is when sites override default behaviours so you can't do either
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#4You're talking about a subjective preference as thought it's an objective absolute. Personally I prefer how it is. If I want it in a separate tab then I'll middle click or ctrl/cmd+click. As far as I know there's no keyboard shortcut which forces a `target=_blank` links to open in the _same tab_ when I want that behaviour. The one I can't stand is when sites override default behaviours so you can't do either
Fair enough
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#5Why should a link open in a new tab? Users here are technical enough to ctrl-click to open a new tab.
Well.. long press on tablet and select new tab but I get what you mean.
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#6I don't want it to work that way, but if you're on desktop, you can just write a Chrome extension to add that for you, if that's how you'd like the site to behave. I made one to add an inline reply button because I wanted one.
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#7I don't want it to work that way, but if you're on desktop, you can just write a Chrome extension to add that for you, if that's how you'd like the site to behave. I made one to add an inline reply button because I wanted one.
And by "just", I mean, here you go:
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#8If I wanted that behavior, I would use Tampermonkey to script my browser.
But that's me. Good luck.
Re: Why does Hacker News not make links open in a new tab?
#9You're talking about a subjective preference as thought it's an objective absolute. Personally I prefer how it is. If I want it in a separate tab then I'll middle click or ctrl/cmd+click. As far as I know there's no keyboard shortcut which forces a `target=_blank` links to open in the _same tab_ when I want that behaviour. The one I can't stand is when sites override default behaviours so you can't do either
I also prefer links to not open in a new tab. If I want it in a new tab I right click on the link and select open in new tab.