Some of you might recall behavior like this from the year 2003 or any shady porn website. We don't like when people leave our site, so we are going to make every single link open up in a new tab. "Hey Redditors, Admins here we've noticed that we send a whole lot of traffic to other websites, almost as if that is one of the core purposes of the website. This change only really benefits Reddit and I think you guys knew that when making the change, the least you can do is be honest.
Rather than saying "websites like Tumblr do this dumb shit which were are now going to do as well", why not just let your users, who have made the website what it is today, decide if they want to have a million tabs opened on their browser. Web browsers have built in shortcuts for opening links in new tabs, why not let the user decide? You guys are in the top 15 websites for the whole entire US and top 50 for the world. You essentially take control away from the user by forcing links to be opened in new tabs. We know that some users intensely dislike this behaviorĪnd pretty much all good web designers/developers This is a pretty common thing for websites It's called bounce rate, if people wanted to return they would and the users that are genuinely lost but would like to get back to that cool website that sent me to another website whose name slips my mind is likely such a small percentage of actual visitors that changing the entire way Reddit works and has worked for years is silly. See the code behind this change on GitHub.Įdit: Thanks to /u/listen2, here is a user script that will revert these changes without being logged-in.Īnd many people get lost, never to return Remember that you can always reach us in /r/bugs and /r/ideasfortheadmins, as well as comments here.
New users can turn it off in their account preferences ("open links in a new window").We know that some users intensely dislike this behavior. If you pay close attention, you'll see Gmail, Google News, Medium, tumblr, and a number of other places act this way. This is a pretty common thing for websites that contain a lot of links to external sources. Very soon, we're going to start defaulting to opening links in new tabs for new accounts and logged-out users. Now, we happen to think reddit contains all sorts of stuff you'd find interesting if only you saw it, but we can't help you find it if you're not even on the website. Reddit currently suffers from what we at HQ have taken to calling "the moon door problem" - after you click on a link submission, you end up on another website without a clear path to get back to reddit, and many people get lost, never to return.
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