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We’ll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won’t be taken to the user’s profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.
Yeah, though long tap is already used for toggling the action bar for comments, so you’d end up with a similar issue of using to interact with small links and getting the wrong result sometimes. So probably a user setting to turn the small links on/off entirely would be safest.
We’ll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won’t be taken to the user’s profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.
Could you use a long tap for opening names/links
Yeah, though long tap is already used for toggling the action bar for comments, so you’d end up with a similar issue of using to interact with small links and getting the wrong result sometimes. So probably a user setting to turn the small links on/off entirely would be safest.