These links break the Discourse browsing as they are links to attached/uploaded files, kind of technical folders (/uploads/…, etc.), not to regular Discourse pages (/t/…, /u/…, etc.)
They are not really external links but they are not normal Discourse browsing pages, either.
So maybe not a Bug…
I don’t use PWA, I don’t know what it is, exactly.
My bug report is for the regular use of (meta) Discourse website.
The “Open all external links in a new tab” option is there to make sure that all pages that are outside of (meta) Discourse navigation (menus), will open in a new tab.
Leaving the original tab with the (meta) Discourse page you were at.
Here, after I click this image link, when I hit the “Back” button, I will have to wait that Discourse website reloads entirely (and cross fingers so that it ends up on the same previous post, not the case here):
I see, i opened another image on meta that was on CloudFront. I realise any upload whether on CDN/S3
or the server itself,
i also realise the bug from my own instance’s local uploads.
should be loaded in another tab.
I have voted on your feature request for the below various reasons.
and also because i don’t understand why PDFs download rather than open in another tab, i think we should have the option for that rather than thoka provide the necessary plugin.
I understand moodle have a way of displaying download page in a new tab, like the “Page is private or deos not exist” page on Discourse
I do hope this feature request gains much traction, because would be an especially large endeavour to upgrade Discourse, so the PWA is better than the Moodle App in all possible ways.
