i imagine it's just that fewer options = easier to maintain. to my knowledge they were never keen on options: gtk was never officially themeable, their gtk theme is called "the only one", they hide all their options on dconf like the windows registry, etc.
generally treat their users like children. but to be fair, it worked for apple and it's sort of working for them, so what do i know?
this is a userscript that i'm using, and has the option to enable open all links in new tab. i also found this whilst searching for it just now, but i haven't used it
but what device are you using that doesn't have a mouse, trackpad, or ctrl key?
yeah, that's a preference not a default. feel free to configure your preferences howsoever you prefer. if it's a configurable preference it's not a dark pattern, it's just an option
the whole archived article is worth reading as well - i particularly like
Reddit user malsomnus hails it as the best change since the quest to depose Quackion, the Aspect of Ducks.
i personally think it's a terrible default. a normal link i can easily choose to open here, in a new tab, or in a new window. target="_blank" removes that choice, and forces me to open it how the site dev wishes
I've always seen it as a dark pattern to keep users on the site (like bing uses it^[see also old reddit doing the user friendly thing of same tab, new reddit opening a new tab]). it was really nice to see lemmy not doing that. it's weird to see people calling it sensible
this seems like a really odd choice. admittedly the old name wasn't great, it sounded like spreadsheet software.
but they've gone from a name that was the top search result to one that will never be, because the current top search result for "firefish" is a recruitment company that can put a lot more money into seo than they can; and a name that most people who would use it (techies & early adopters) will immediately assume is a firefox fork or mozilla product
in isolation it's not a bad name, and i really like the new logo; but it just seems like a poor choice
you can do that with a userscript if you want to keep the lemmy interface
although i do not understand why people like this. just middle click instead?
hey so i've just seen this comment that reminded me of this thread, in case it's helpful
(sorry it's not an instance agnostic link, i'm not sure how to make those)
honestly i feel like that's their attitude toward everything? maybe i missed the glory days of gnome, but now i see it as only useful if you're A) a gnome developer, or B) have exactly the same workflow as a gnome developer. otherwise it's useless unless you want a bunch of extensions that break every update
same. to be honest, that's mostly why i'm on Debian - from what i could tell it had the largest repositories. i did try arch on my laptop and one markdown editor took over half an hour to compile so i just gave up
I mean, isn't cinnamon just a better version of gnome 2?
oh yeah that's fair. it's only gnome 3 that's awful
I generally understand it as the frontends for the applications, no
it's just that i imagine you know more than me about linux, having used it for longer, but i didn't want to assume that and have you floundering and confused
lemmy also (unofficially) supports footnotes.[^1] you may want to view this in a browser^[as it currently doesn't render in any mobile clients]^[also note the differing positions of the caret]
additionally, with no markdown linking at all, the web interface^[and i believe most apps] automatically turns
[!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)into a link: !community@instance.tld[^1]: with two different syntaxes