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[Suggestion] View link from comments before opening (self.boostforlemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by papalonian to c/boostforlemmy

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When clicking on links in comments, I wish that instead of opening the link immediately it would give a sort of context menu so you can at least see where the link goes to or maybe copy/ share the link.

It's incredibly annoying clicking on embedded links to YouTube/ other apps, getting yanked out of Boost and having to close the video, back out of YouTube, reopen Lemmy... All for a link I never would've opened had I been able to see it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that what happens if you long tap on a link?

I also use URLCheck which does this for every link, on top of whatever each app does, in order to kill trackers. That might help in your situation too

[–] papalonian 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ha! So it is. I'd tried this before, but I think I was not long-tapping directly on the link because I was just collapsing the comment.

It would be nice if there was an option to change the default behavior, as I'm too stupid to remember to long press every link I see. But that's being a bit nitpicky.

[–] FireTower 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dislike the ability to hide links, I don't want to accidentally open the YouTube app (revanced gang) because I clicked a link I couldn't read. Though I recognize that for longer links it can be necessary.

[–] papalonian 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone else pointed out to me that if you long press on the link (not the comment itself) that it will open up the exact menu that I am talking about. It's a little annoying, personally I wish that this was the default behavior, but it beats opening the YouTube app every 5 seconds.