alt Hacker NewsIn my experience there's already a commonly used icon for external links [1] but it's not this north-east arrow, it's the arrow-out-of-the-square icon.
I don't know why it happens, but it reminds me of this feeling I have when the ai doesn't really know what it's doing: does one thing, then another one differently and when confronted: "Ah you're right, I just was just guessing, now I can do the correct thing".
[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/107823/is-there-a-com...
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noduerme • yesterday at 1:55 PM
That icon, at least as I've used it and seen it used, isn't necessarily to denote an external link; it's to indicate a link with a _blank target that opens a new tab. It's a hieroglyph for "open in new window".
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Yes, that icon is more familiar to me also. It's also frustrating that some design guidance is now to make hyperlinks otherwise undecorated, such that even site-internal links need an icon. Please give us back underlined text with colors to distinguish visited versus unvisited.