Also. can we have an option for links to magazines/content opening in a new window/tab? Obviously ctrl-click, shift-click, or right click <…> solves the problem but not needing two hands/multiple clicks to avoid losing the current page would be fab.
Middle click isn’t multiple clicks. Instead of a single left click on the link you do a single middle click on the link. Just a single press to the scroll wheel on most mouse.
Just an FYI, I doubt the Lemmy developers are paying attention to BeeHaw’s technology community. This might be more effective as a feature request on the Lemmy GitHub.
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Also. can we have an option for links to magazines/content opening in a new window/tab? Obviously ctrl-click, shift-click, or right click <…> solves the problem but not needing two hands/multiple clicks to avoid losing the current page would be fab.
Middle-click might be an option for you too. One handed operation and I’m pretty sure it works on most browsers.
Middle click isn’t multiple clicks. Instead of a single left click on the link you do a single middle click on the link. Just a single press to the scroll wheel on most mouse.
You have to make a second click to see the opened tab.
Just an FYI, I doubt the Lemmy developers are paying attention to BeeHaw’s technology community. This might be more effective as a feature request on the Lemmy GitHub.
I’m not on Lemmy. I posted in my kbin instance.
You’re posting to the beehaw tech news community (“magazine”) though.
I think the place for kbin feature requests is: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues