I think the only thing that’s really missing for me and not just from old.lemmy.world but from the normal Lemmy UI. The ability to have clicking on links open in a new tab. I don’t know why but I just really like having stuff open in a new tab so I can then come back to exactly where I left off.

Middle clicking a link (clicking with the mouse wheel) or ctrl clicking, opens links in a new tab.

Middle clicking also closes a tab of you middle click on it.

I knew about Ctrl+click but not about middle mouse click. TIL :)
Unfortunately it only opens in the background and doesn’t open in a new tab and switch to it. I usually use both.
Pssst… Shift + middle click.
Oh cool! Thank you! Now to begin the arduous process of training a new workflow into muscle memory. :)
I am sure you could use tampermonkey/greasemonkey userscript for that
Ooooh that’s a good idea. I’ll give that a shot.

Oh hey, I’m not alone! So I made a bookmarklet that fixes this. Make sure endless scroll is checked, then create a new bookmark and put it on your toolbar. Give the bookmark a name, I just use “>” on mine. Cut and paste this javascript into the bookmark’s URL:

javascript:(function(){var l=document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);for(var i=0; i<l.length; i++){if(l[i].href.indexOf(‘&page=’)==-1){l[i].target=‘_blank’;}}window.onscroll = function(){var l=document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);for(var i=0; i<l.length; i++){if(l[i].href.indexOf(‘&page=’)==-1){l[i].target=‘_blank’;}}};})();

When old.lemmy loads, click the bookmark, and links will behave like you are used to on reddit.

Awesome! This worked with tamper monkey so it gets applied automatically. Thanks :)
Oh, great! Not a tamper/greasemonkey user, but good to know for anyone else watching that it can work seamlessly that way. Cheers!
Great! Not a tamper/greasemonkey user, but good to know for anyone else watching that it can work seamlessly that way. Cheers!