[Suggestion] View link from comments before opening - eviltoast

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.

  • FireTower@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months 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.