This is cool. Don't want to minimize that. That said, in case it helps anyone else, my usual flow is to middle-click (by clicking my mouse wheel) both the link

This is cool. Don't want to minimize that. That said, in case it helps anyone else, my usual flow is to middle-click (by clicking my mouse wheel) both the link and the comments link which opens each in a new background tab (at least in Chrome). Hopefully that's lower-friction than what you were doing with the two tabs.