Suggestion For Links To Forum Sponsors

Bikertov · August 24, 2022

Can I make a technical suggestion for the Forum ?

At the moment, if you click a link to one of the Forum sponsors your browser page is taken away from the Forum and goes to the sponsors page.

It may be better to set the link to "open in a new browser tab" with the sponsors page, so you don't lose where you are on the Forum and can carry on reading from where you were.

There will probably be a setting on the link option to say "open in new tab"

unclemike · August 24, 2022

Why not just right click and select open in a new tab from dropdown menu,also to return to the forum page just righr click and click the back arrow,, simples

Bikertov · August 24, 2022

36 minutes ago, unclemike said:

Why not just right click and select open in a new tab from dropdown menu,also to return to the forum page just righr click and click the back arrow,, simples

Yes, you can do that on a computer, but it is not the 'natural' click with a mouse, and not sure how you do that on a touch screen like a phone or tablet.

Also, if you have continued browsing on the sponsor site, it is more 'back' clicks to the Forum.

Typically in website design, you don't take people away from the site on an external link, you open a new tab.

DAVIDH · August 24, 2022

2 hours ago, Bikertov said:

Typically in website design, you don't take people away from the site on an external link, you open a new tab.

Absolutely, otherwise people get lost trying to get back.

grendel · August 25, 2022

i darent attempt it, i know how to add a sponsor or remove one, but dont ask me to change the coding for how the links work, as often when i try that it breaks the forum

oldgregg · August 25, 2022

23 hours ago, Bikertov said:

Can I make a technical suggestion for the Forum ?

At the moment, if you click a link to one of the Forum sponsors your browser page is taken away from the Forum and goes to the sponsors page.

It may be better to set the link to "open in a new browser tab" with the sponsors page, so you don't lose where you are on the Forum and can carry on reading from where you were.

There will probably be a setting on the link option to say "open in new tab"

Yeah it's a fair point. Actually the adverts sidebar is our own custom bit of code (there was nothing that did quite what we needed) so we could easily add a target=”_blank” to it.

Bikertov · August 25, 2022

19 minutes ago, oldgregg said:

Yeah it's a fair point. Actually the adverts sidebar is our own custom bit of code (there was nothing that did quite what we needed) so we could easily add a target=”_blank” to it.

Thanks @oldgreggthat would do it, so long as the general consensus agrees of course !