Issue links open automatically in a popup

[miloush]

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In some repositories, any link to an issue form an issue stared to open in a popup overlay instead of navigating to it.

Is that something that is rolling out gradually? I checked both the changelog and product roadmap but couldn't find any mentions of the new behavior. Is there a way to turn it off or configure? It completely breaks the experience and negatively affects productivity.

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[dharmab]

This really breaks my experience using AI agents! I click an issue link to copy the URL of that issue to paste into an agent, I get the parent issue link instead!

It looks awful too, I thought at first my browser had glitched and there was a rendering error

[Domoninic]

Please give us an option to disable this non-standard link behavior. If I click a link it should open and NOT just throw up an overlay.

[ZimbiX]

This is ridiculous and really should have been opt-in if done at all. GitHub's quality has eroded since the Microsoft acquisition. Don't baby us - please keep links acting like links.

Edit: Duplicate of https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192665

Edit 2: I've created a workaround to restore proper link functionality: userscript, installation instructions.

[algesten]

I don't want this. It breaks assistive technologies. I want an option to get the old behavior.

[MrSuddenJoy]

Wow, that's seriously great work on GitHub's side. It looks outstanding, works amazing, should have been implemented long ago, in fact.

should have been opt-in

@ZimbiX Could have been opt-in. Not should......

keep links acting like links.

@ZimbiX links are still links; you can still right-click > open in new tab.

GitHub's quality has eroded since the Microsoft acquisition.

@ZimbiX 50/50 I guess.... for me and my use case, GitHub progressed. But, again, thats only me.....