Open External Links in a New Tab

Open External Links in a New Tab

Norman Mwebesa
@norman

Updated: Dec 12, 2025

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I was reading your explanation about new SEO automatic follow/nofollow links and how Jatra handles internal and external linking automatically, thank you for keeping us updated.
I want to request a small improvement making external links automatically open in a new tab.
Right now they open in the same page, which causes users to leave the community unintentionally. Having them Open in a new tab improves navigation and user experience (users stay on the community).

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Kaustubh Katdare

@kaustubh-katdare • 3w

Thank you for the suggestion, Norman. I've moved this to to 'Reviewing' state and will follow-up with an update in a day or two.

Norman Mwebesa

@norman • 3w

@kaustubh-katdare, thank you for your response and the time you're taking while reviewing my suggestion. I'm looking forward to your update!

Paula Derrenger

@paulad • 2w

This is a good idea.

Norman Mwebesa

@norman • 2w

thank you @paulad

Kaustubh Katdare

@kaustubh-katdare • 2w

Status updated to building.

ShubhadaJP

@BlockChainMentor • 1w

I will add my suggestion here. Even if someone is opening internal link (like in my case - link added in clusters/ private channel) it should open in new tab. This might impact bounce rate. Otherwise what happens - if a targeted reader comes to forum - they might read one or two links at the most and leave the site.

Kaustubh Katdare

@kaustubh-katdare • 1w

Update: External links like Google should open in a new tab now and internal links like Jatra Feedback should open in the same tab.

Kaustubh Katdare

@kaustubh-katdare • 1w

Status updated: Fixed.