On the "X comments" text? That’s a `button` in code.

Yes. Middle click works perfectly, just like on HN and old reddit etc.

Interesting, turns out chrome allows you to middle click on <button> when it wraps <a>. FF does not.

> just like on HN and old reddit etc.

Those use plain links

> turns out chrome allows you to middle click on <button> when it wraps <a>. FF does not.

It works on Firefox, Safari and Brave/Chromium the exact same way for me, middle click always work. Not sure what you mean.

Found the issue. It actually doesn’t work at all: https://imgur.com/a/xuUfT4Q The first image is the button, which switches the cursor to one pretending to be a link, but only the second outline is actually clickable. I added a gif as demo, will also report this to lemmy.

I’m so confused. Now that’s the case. But I didn’t dream being unable to open those in a new tab. WTF could be going on? I even looked at the git repo, no recent relevant changes