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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat, Vol. 3

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I wish links would normally open in new tabs, it's really annoying sometimes.
 

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I dont, when I click on a link, it leads me away from the forums to the site it links too, kind of annoying IMO.
 

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Does anyone ever not open links in new tabs when someone posts a link on the forums?

I almost always open links in new tabs. But I do like having the choice not to have them automatically opened in new tabs, if that's what your talking about.
 

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I wish links would normally open in new tabs, it's really annoying sometimes.

I KNOW RIGHT?

Unfortunately Archaic does not agree =/

Of course he doesn't. Most of the internet users use chrome. Chrome only has a right-click open in new tab option, no "open". There'd be no easy way to open links on the current tab in chrome.

I dont, when I click on a link, it leads me away from the forums to the site it links too, kind of annoying IMO.

Right-click, open in new tab. It's only one more click than usual. It's really not that hard.


Because.

GIMP's transparency is a lie.

Then you're probably using it wrong, I always make stuff succesfully transparant with it.
 

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Of course he doesn't. Most of the internet users use chrome. Chrome only has a right-click open in new tab option, no "open". There'd be no easy way to open links on the current tab in chrome.

It doesn't matter if there's no reason ever to do it =/

If it were implemented, then people could just open a link in a new tab and close the old tab if they really wanted. Like you said, only one extra click, not that hard.
 

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Of course he doesn't. Most of the internet users use chrome. Chrome only has a right-click open in new tab option, no "open". There'd be no easy way to open links on the current tab in chrome.

It doesn't matter if there's no reason ever to do it =/

If it were implemented, then people could just open a link in a new tab and close the old tab if they really wanted. Like you said, only one extra click, not that hard.

What about people using older IE versions (like at school/work)? They don't support tabs, everything'd pop-up into a new window. And I'm sure most people are annoyed by that.
 

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Of course he doesn't. Most of the internet users use chrome. Chrome only has a right-click open in new tab option, no "open". There'd be no easy way to open links on the current tab in chrome.

It doesn't matter if there's no reason ever to do it =/

If it were implemented, then people could just open a link in a new tab and close the old tab if they really wanted. Like you said, only one extra click, not that hard.

What about people using older IE versions? They don't support tabs, everything'd pop-up into a new window.

Do you have any evidence that the current version of Bulbagarden is even supported by versions of IE that old? IE has had tabs for the past 3 versions at least.
 

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Woah, how funny. My Gallade got paralyzed during Trick Room, and the status condition actually helped me. o.o
 

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Holy shit, appearently Archaic used the exact same reasoning as me.

It's something we can do with an inbuilt feature of vBulletin. Having said that however, I don't really have any plans to implement it. It's possible to do this by using a keyboard shortcut or an option on a right click. It's *not* as easy to do the opposite, forcing a link to open in the same tab or window when the site is set to do that by default. It'd likely annoy a number of users.

Seriously, there's nothing much to add besides this. And I already said it. Letting links open in new tabs can cause harder-to-solve annoyances to many people, while only slightly improving it for others, who could easily open stuff in new tabs regardless.
 

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Holy shit, appearently Archaic used the exact same reasoning as me.

It's something we can do with an inbuilt feature of vBulletin. Having said that however, I don't really have any plans to implement it. It's possible to do this by using a keyboard shortcut or an option on a right click. It's *not* as easy to do the opposite, forcing a link to open in the same tab or window when the site is set to do that by default. It'd likely annoy a number of users.

Seriously, there's nothing much to add besides this. And I already said it. Letting links open in new tabs can cause harder-to-solve annoyances to many people, while only slightly improving it for others, who could easily open stuff in new tabs regardless.

I know what he said. I disagree, but I'd rather argue with you then argue with him. He also didn't say anything about people using old versions of IE that don't support tabbed browsing. IE has supported tabs for a really long time, and I think anyone still using a version that old probably shouldn't be using the internet at all.
 

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Holy shit, appearently Archaic used the exact same reasoning as me.

It's something we can do with an inbuilt feature of vBulletin. Having said that however, I don't really have any plans to implement it. It's possible to do this by using a keyboard shortcut or an option on a right click. It's *not* as easy to do the opposite, forcing a link to open in the same tab or window when the site is set to do that by default. It'd likely annoy a number of users.

Seriously, there's nothing much to add besides this. And I already said it. Letting links open in new tabs can cause harder-to-solve annoyances to many people, while only slightly improving it for others, who could easily open stuff in new tabs regardless.

I know what he said. I disagree, but I'd rather argue with you then argue with him. He also didn't say anything about people using old versions of IE that don't support tabbed browsing. IE has supported tabs for a really long time, and I think anyone still using a version that old probably shouldn't be using the internet at all.

IE6. Some companies/schools still use it. I remember being forced to use it somewhere recently (like in the past year). Maybe it was on some pc on my old school. Also IE7-8 pop-up blockers might block it when it's automatically opened in a new tab, as I remember my old IE pop-up blocker was quite pesky with stuff like that (I would have to test it to be sure though).
 

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Holy shit, appearently Archaic used the exact same reasoning as me.

It's something we can do with an inbuilt feature of vBulletin. Having said that however, I don't really have any plans to implement it. It's possible to do this by using a keyboard shortcut or an option on a right click. It's *not* as easy to do the opposite, forcing a link to open in the same tab or window when the site is set to do that by default. It'd likely annoy a number of users.

Seriously, there's nothing much to add besides this. And I already said it. Letting links open in new tabs can cause harder-to-solve annoyances to many people, while only slightly improving it for others, who could easily open stuff in new tabs regardless.

I know what he said. I disagree, but I'd rather argue with you then argue with him. He also didn't say anything about people using old versions of IE that don't support tabbed browsing. IE has supported tabs for a really long time, and I think anyone still using a version that old probably shouldn't be using the internet at all.

IE6. Some companies/schools still use it. I remember being forced to use it somewhere recently (like in the past year). Maybe it was on some pc on my old school. Also IE7-8 pop-up blockers might block it when it's automatically opened in a new tab, as I remember my old IE pop-up blocker was quite pesky with stuff like that (I would have to test it to be sure though).

IE7 came out in October 2006. That's five and a half years ago. If you haven't updated your browser on your PC for that long, then you probably aren't the type of person who posts on Bulbagarden Forums. Sounds like all the places where you were forced to use it are places where you shouldn't be browsing the forums anyway.
 

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Holy shit, appearently Archaic used the exact same reasoning as me.

It's something we can do with an inbuilt feature of vBulletin. Having said that however, I don't really have any plans to implement it. It's possible to do this by using a keyboard shortcut or an option on a right click. It's *not* as easy to do the opposite, forcing a link to open in the same tab or window when the site is set to do that by default. It'd likely annoy a number of users.

Seriously, there's nothing much to add besides this. And I already said it. Letting links open in new tabs can cause harder-to-solve annoyances to many people, while only slightly improving it for others, who could easily open stuff in new tabs regardless.

I know what he said. I disagree, but I'd rather argue with you then argue with him. He also didn't say anything about people using old versions of IE that don't support tabbed browsing. IE has supported tabs for a really long time, and I think anyone still using a version that old probably shouldn't be using the internet at all.

IE6. Some companies/schools still use it. I remember being forced to use it somewhere recently (like in the past year). Maybe it was on some pc on my old school. Also IE7-8 pop-up blockers might block it when it's automatically opened in a new tab, as I remember my old IE pop-up blocker was quite pesky with stuff like that (I would have to test it to be sure though).

IE7 came out in October 2006. That's five and a half years ago. If you haven't updated your browser on your PC for that long, then you probably aren't the type of person who posts on Bulbagarden Forums. Sounds like all the places where you were forced to use it are places where you shouldn't be browsing the forums anyway.

Schools. From what I've heard in the conversational threads over the years a lot of members browse the site from their schools actually.

But you know, tabs not opening in a new tab automatically actually shouldn't be an issue, as it's the standard everywhere. Google doesn't open stuff in new tabs. Youtube doesn't, Facebook doesn't. Unless you mean to say you never open stuff in new tabs on those sites? Because in that case I withdraw the following argument before even using it. But if you do, then it's kinda weird to expect the same here, and be bothered by it when it doesn't do it. You could just use the same automatism you use on those sites when you open new tabs on this site. Easy.

Plus really, if you are so bothered by making the mistake of directly clicking a link directly so many times, you'd think you would've thaught yourself to right-click a link first by now.
 

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Schools. From what I've heard in the conversational threads over the years a lot of members browse the site from their schools actually.

But you know, tabs not opening in a new tab automatically actually shouldn't be an issue, as it's the standard everywhere. Google doesn't open stuff in new tabs. Youtube doesn't, Facebook doesn't. Unless you mean to say you never open stuff in new tabs on those sites? Because in that case I withdraw the following argument before even using it. But if you do, then it's kinda weird to expect the same here, and be bothered by it when it doesn't do it. You could just use the same automatism you use on those sites when you open new tabs on this site. Easy.

Plus really, if you are so bothered by making the mistake of directly clicking a link directly so many times, you'd think you would've thaught yourself to right-click a link first by now.

Youtube and Facebook most definitely do actually. I'm talking about links people post. Facebook absolutely opens links people post in new tabs, and Youtube opens links in descriptions in new tabs. It's really super convenient actually, and it would annoy me if it were any other way. Also, like I said in the other thread, other forums I'm on do it that way as well, and it's really super convenient.

The only reason I may rarely make mistakes here is because every other site I visit already works like that, so I'm used to just clicking and having a new tab open.
 
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