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by Moter8 3070 days ago
I can't middleclick links. Unusable for me.

Also, please don't attach /?sort=new (or remove it) to reddit threads. It overrides the user's sorting.

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I almost liked it, but then I wanted to open 5 links in new tabs and it didn't work, also left-click also doesnt work, it just tries to load some information from external source, only reddit link worked "OK" (but really not OK, I wanted to see comments not content of a post) for me.
HN works great without js. This site I can't even click the links?
Inspired by HN without all the thinks that makes HN great.
Not just middle click, I can’t long press on mobile in order to open a new tab either. I suspect it’s just a <div> element with an onclick handler.
Use the link to the right of the title (shown as the name of the site it's on).

Clicking on titles expands/collapses.

That's pretty counter-intuitive, compared to reddit/hn/similar...
Also consider using np.reddit.com for reddit links (https://www.reddit.com/r/NoParticipation/wiki/intro).
I'd rather use ns.reddit.com (old style reddit)... but yeah I can't left click or middle click those links...
what does a middleclick do?
In most browsers, middle clicking a link will open in a new tab.
Furthermore, middle click a tab to close it. Faster and easier than hitting the small cross in the corner of the tab.

In Xorg -- the graphical environment used on a lot of Unix-like operating systems like FreeBSD and various Linux distros -- middle clicking anywhere you can type text, whether that be in a terminal, in a text editor running in a terminal, a standalone text editor, an e-mail client, an input field in a web browser, etc etc etc, will paste the text you last selected. Once you get used to that you will wonder why every OS isn't doing so by default. It's pure genius plain and simple.

'middle click a tab to close it' makes things much smoother for me!
I don't have a middle button so it's news to me. I have a modifier key for that or a right click and select "open in new tab"
Might depend on your browser but CTRL+left click will do the same as the middle mouse button--that is, open the link in a new background tab.

CTRL+Shift+Click opens the link in a new tab and switches to it.