Clicking a link opens a new tab

[k5jat]

Is your proposal related to a problem?

Currently, when you click an external site on my lemmy, it will go directly to the new site and my site becomes a part of their history. For years, it's been my practice to open new tabs when clicking an external link from my websites. This is done with the hopes that once they are done with whatever they're doing on the external site, they continue their journey on my site.

Describe the solution you'd like.

This can be solved by adding the target=”_blank” attribute to link code.

Something like: <a href="https://lemmy.website" target="_blank">Lemmy.Website</a>

Describe alternatives you've considered.

We could always ask the users to middle mouse-click, but that's not really practical.

Additional context

No response

[Nutomic]

Duplicate of #634 and #282, use the search function.