Hi, can we get a little more info to help us understand what we can do to make this better?

In particular, what have you lost from your previous workflow? Does it take a lot longer to get to some info you need?

We won't be able to replicate all of buildbot's behavior but we don't want to negatively impact anyone's productivity either.

Thanks!

Adding tracking label

I don't really miss the popup thing that Buildbot had. But the console is a pretty large page, and I frequently want to open up several failing builds to inspect. I just forget to hold down Cmd to open the build links in new tabs, because Buildbot used to target=_blank them.

That makes sense. I think there will be a handful of migration pain points that will come from moving to a new UI. I'm not totally sold that the target=_blank behavior is better since ctrl/cmd is an option this way and the opposite isn't if we change it back.

We can keep this open as a known issue and see if others don't like the change in behavior and go from there. Thanks!

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It's been a year and there's 1 star on this bug and no other bugs have been files about the existing behavior.  I'll conclude that the present behavior is okay, and mark this bug as WontFix.

Personally I think setting target=_blank for links should only be used for extraordinary cases, such as linking out of a domain.  In my opinion, linking to builds from the console doesn't meet this bar.
It is easy for a user to choose to open a link in a new tab, but a user can't choose to open a target=_blank link in the current window.