[Suggestion] View link from comments before opening
[Suggestion] View link from comments before opening
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.
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
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.
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.
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.