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Ask HN: Do you find it annoying when an external link opens in the same tab?
Several sites I use every day (like this very HN and Stack Overflow) don't open external links in a new tab.
Sometimes I forget to press the control button, and the page I'm reading is gone when I click on a link. Of course I can get back to where I was with a single click (or button press), but I feel betrayed, every single this happens.
- alpeb 11y agoNo.
- dgritsko 11y agoIt does bother me, yes. However, I've gotten in the habit of just middle-clicking on links (opening them in a new tab) regardless of the site I'm on.
- ahmedfromtunis 11y agoUsing mostly my laptop, I sometimes forget to press the control button, especially when on 'deep focus mode' and, boom :/
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- franze 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll awesome HN power user feature
- ahmedfromtunis 11y agoSounds cool, but unfortunately not enough karma to use it. Karma is a b, isn't?
- pavornyoh 11y agoHow many karma's does one need to have that feature?
- DanBC 11y agoI don't find it annoying. I use my browser features. It's more annoying if you've types a few hundred words in a text entry box.
- ahmedfromtunis 11y agoThat's definitely item 2 on my most annoying-stuff-list!
- acheron 11y agoWhat? No. The opposite, really. If I want a link to open in a new tab, I will do it myself. It annoys me much more when a site creates a new tab for me.
- ahmedfromtunis 11y agoYep. I even read about some designers adding this to their no-no list. The user must have the choice to when to create a new tab. But living in a country with just 3G on our mobile phones (4G is hopefully coming early next year), it can sometimes be very very annoying.
- dudul 11y agoA little bit. I think it's considered bad practice to create a link that opens a new tab automatically, one is supposed to let the user decide how they want to follow the link.
- detaro 11y agoI only really expect a new tab in apps that would be interupted/broken by opening the page in the same tab or maybe inside long-form texts. Generally pages, esp. aggregators like HN or reddit, shouldn't do it. If you prefer it for specific pages, things like that are a good use case for userscripts.