<a class="mention" href="/@libs">@libs</a> It should be user choice whether to click on a link but in my experience, when a user decides to click on a link, the loading page should NOT replace the original page. If it replaces the original page, users are likely to do one of the following things in the future: a) not click on future links or b) not bother clicking the back button on the browser to get back to the previous powping page. It's easier to close a browser window then to have to hit the back button and wait for the previous page to load, sometimes losing the place marker where you left off or having right click on your mouse and then select "open new window".
<a class="mention" href="/@libs">@libs</a> It should be user choice whether to click on a link but in my experience, when a user decides to click on a link, the loading page should NOT replace the original page. If it replaces the original page, users are likely to do one of the following things in the future: a) not click on future links or b) not bother clicking the back button on the browser to get back to the previous powping page. It's easier to close a browser window then to have to hit the back button and wait for the previous page to load, sometimes losing the place marker where you left off or having right click on your mouse and then select "open new window".