Pleroma mentions and hashtags open in new window, not locally

[nolanlawson]

When someone is mentioned in Pleroma, if you click the handle it will take you to their public profile, rather than the local one.

[nolanlawson]

It seems that Pleroma does not add the mention class to mentions, which is what I'm looking for. Unfortunately the only alternative is to traverse all anchor tags and check their href.

[nolanlawson]

It seems this is also true for hashtags - there is no hashtag class.

[nolanlawson]

Looks like for hashtags, Pleroma does not provide any indication that there is something special about hashtag links. For mentions at least, there is the status.mentions array so we can infer it. But for hashtags there is nothing.

I feel that Pleroma should add these tags, since otherwise it's really tricky to process these anchors. Especially for hashtags, I don't like relying on the convention of (/tag/foo), since a site could spoof that by adding /tag/foo itself (and then you'd have to rely on the convention of the hashtag starting with a #... conventions on conventions).

[nolanlawson]

I filed a bug on Pleroma, but then the Pleroma GitLab crashed, so I can't link to it. 😕

[nolanlawson]

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/issues/461