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YC News. Open external links in new tabs. It's about time

2 points by pharin ↗ HN
It's about time hacker news implemented a 'target="_blank"' feature in their links outside of the news.ycombinator.com domain. Don't you?

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allendoerfer
No we don't. We like to have choices. You can click with your scroll-wheel or hold ctrl.
MichaelCrawford
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

If I want to open into a new tab, then I will open it that way myself.

pharin
Jeez. Very strong reactions against that. I guess I might be the only one feeling that pain. I guess I will have to write my own bookmarklet for that.
izolate
target _blank is evil. bad UX to control the user behavior. use your middle-click or ctrl/cmd+click if you want this silly feature.
pharin
Lol. It's not evil if I'm at a news aggregator where I expect to be clicking on multiple aggregated news items. Think about how many Ctrl and Cmd key presses that will be saved. Jeez!
DanBC
There is a suggestions thread for this kind of stuff. Or you could email the,. Or there's a github. But, if you're going to make this kind of thread it might have been better as a poll. "Do you want links to open in new tabs? 12345 where 1 is "YES" and 5 is "NO".

Me, I'm going to say strong no. I prefer predictable links.

pharin
Ok. I'll use the suggestions thread next time