Thread:Kirkburn/@comment-27345308-20160630205750/@comment-126761-20160630212219

We didn't remove the feature entirely - only the function that caused it to open links in a new tab.

It's useful for Shared Help because it gets around how that code reinterprets interwiki links (it often turns interwikis into local links when viewing help pages on other communities). It's not ideal, and we'd like to change that - but for the moment, it works.

(We also didn't remove it entirely because we don't want to break all the existing links using it, of course.)