When I wrote Hacker News, I deliberately didn't make links open in new tabs. That seemed overreaching. But now so many sites do it that I'm often faked out when HN doesn't.
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Why didn’t you though?
It seemed like something sites did to maximize their own traffic. Instead of sending you away, they'd keep themselves in the old tab, and just give you the link in the new one.
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True, but if your site is meant for discovery (like HN) then keeping them on your site (“maximizing your own traffic”) might be the better user experience?
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Followup: was clicking from
@Jira today to view a screen in development, and it didn't open in a new tab. I was so frustrated. I like being able to move between tabs when working in both concurrently.
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A good example of the limiting belief systems prevalent in software engineering culture. How did we become so allergic to our own success that we make a worse experience for our users?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HubSpot ‘s app is guilty of some form of tab overload@dharmesh have a look at@salesforce ‘s lightning experience for an elegant solution to tabberexiaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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