Hovering a markdown link with the mouse should give an indication which page will be opened

[nickvergessen]

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if the markdown description of the link is only clickbait news, I don't want to open the link. if it's a trustful source like mastodon (😁 ) I might want to read along.

On the browsers they take care of showing the target in the bottom left, but in the desktop client we have to show a tooltip

[ShGKme]

Alternative solution proposal:

• Handle all external links
• Open a confirmation dialog before opening a web-page in a web-browser to ask if a user wants to open this page

[nickvergessen]

• hover-tooltip for external links sound good
• confirmation dialog sounds quite impacting, so would prefer something else