I used to run large forums in the past using vBulletin (let me know if you ever make the migration. Anyways, in vB there was a setting to open all links to a new window. Could you guys check to see if you have that? its really helpful for a lot of people working in a thread so they dont loose it, but also for you guys you, to help ensure users/visitors keep your site open so its easy to get back to. For me, i have got into the habit of right-click - open in new tab, but might be worth seeing if you have that feature
I checked briefly the phpbb settings and i didn't find this kind of feature. I'll let you know if i'm able to add a Mod to do that.
You need to make a couple of quick and small code hacks for that -> https://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/links- ... w-windows/
