When clicking on a person in "Changes to people you follow", please have it open a new tab.

LSMarvin

When I click on a person in the "Changes to people you follow" list, it wipes out the list and opens that person in the same tab.

If I have a huge long list of people (466 today) in the following list, I then have to go back and scroll through and click on "show more" all over again.

I know I can right click on the link and open in a new tab. But I will often forget to do that and have to reinitialize the "Changes to people you follow" list all over.

It would be such a great time saver if the behavior was changed so it opens into a new tab.

Thanks for everything you folks do. Best regards, LeEric

LSMarvin

Oh, also, the "View Activity" button right below the "show more", being more pronounced, also enlists erroneous clicks from me. Likewise, it also nukes the current tab and replaces it with new content. Requiring me to reload the "Changes to People you follow" all over again.

Can this button also be reconfigured to open a new tab?

Thanks again, LeEric

LSMarvin

Has anyone ever seen this?

Gordon Collett

The counter shows your post has been viewed 139 times. So yes, it has been seen.

We users have been assured many times that all suggestions for website improvements are evaluated and forwarded to the appropriate team. However, it is very rare that we hear back from them.

Comments here are almost exclusively from other users discussing the pros and cons of a suggestion. Your suggestion was clearly stated and straightforward with really nothing left to discuss which is probably why you never got any comments from other users.

Now regarding what happens when the developers see your idea, I can only speculate. But I would assume that one of two things happen:

1) It is accepted and ranked in order of priority and urgency then put somewhere on the list of the 54,738 other items that need to be taken care of. In this case, the change will show up some year.

2) It is rejected because far more users like the current behavior and do not want it changed or the change would conflict with other aspects of the website or the change would violate some basic current standard or principle of web design such as discussed in: https://uxdesign.cc/linking-to-a-new-tab-vs-same-tab-f88b495d2187 and https://phillipstemann.com/should-internal-links-open-in-a-new-tab/#:~:text=Should%20Internal%20Links%20Open%20in%20a%20New%20Tab%202023%3F,and%20avoid%20issues%20with%20navigation.

LSMarvin

Gordon, Thanks. Good point on the viewed 139 times!

And thanks for the insight of what is probably going on!