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Changing the “default other external links in new tab” site setting will only take effect for new users. To manually change all existing user’s preferences, you can follow the instructions here:

Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users

If you need to update the user preference for all of your users or a large subset of users, you can do so via the rails console. From console, run these commands to enter the rails console for Discourse ./launcher enter app rails c Then, run a command that selects the set of users you wish to update. Examples Set the last seen date for users who have never logged in User.where("last_seen_at IS NULL").update_all(last_seen_at: 1.week.ago) Unset mailing list mode for all users who may have se…