I agree with this, but I think we should let this wait for broader discussion - there maybe good counter-arguments.

In general, I think the rule should be "default to open in same tab", because it's a lot easier for the user to force new tab then it is to force same tab.
Exceptions are

• cases where navigation can cause data-loss (forms)
• links explicitly marked with a relevant icon
• maybe external links, because there's sort of a norm for that on the internet at large, and it makes it more clear to the user that it's a different context, for some value of context.

I'm not a fan of adding an icon to any external link, because it makes reading less fluent (for my eyes at least, the icon breaks the text flow)

I agree. Having said that I'm not bold enough to propose a "default: open in same tab" since at the moment we have the exact contrary. That is why I proposed this compromise based on the destination.

Premising I am trying to make few variations to the current behavior implemented by Evan

I think that D25118: Remarkup: make less internal links open in new tabs somehow reflects what most user (Evan included) probably want

In T15161#4416, @avivey wrote:

I agree with this, but I think we should let this wait for broader discussion - there maybe good counter-arguments.

I think nobody is interested :(

In general, I think the rule should be "default to open in same tab", because it's a lot easier for the user to force new tab then it is to force same tab.
Exceptions are

• cases where navigation can cause data-loss (forms)
• links explicitly marked with a relevant icon
• maybe external links, because there's sort of a norm for that on the internet at large, and it makes it more clear to the user that it's a different context, for some value of context.

I totally agree but, at the moment, the user has not any option to mark a specific link as external :( The best I can propose is to improve the current default.

I'm not a fan of adding an icon to any external link, because it makes reading less fluent (for my eyes at least, the icon breaks the text flow)

Yeah I agree. Premising that some people may want to do that. So in D25118 we can also expose a CSS class that does nothing at the moment, but allowing web designers to easily do that in their Phorge.

I think the current revision is a good compromise. The current behavior makes no sense from the perspective of modern UX patterns:

1. Most users of webpages know a link will open in the same tab.
2. Assuming Phorge is your main software development tool, it makes sense to open external links in a new tab - there always shall be one open Phorge tab 😉

Since I can, thanks to that revision, at work I've put this additional CSS rule for extra nonsense scary climax.

.remarkup-link-ext::before {
    content: "[DANGER EXTERNAL] ";
    color: red;
}

The thing is, thanks to our Matomo, I can say that, surprisingly, in just one week, this kind of "don't click" thing increased the number of clicks by an interesting undisclosed factor. asd