Links should go to a new tab / window. OR the app should remember filter settings

[carlshimer]

Use case:

1. Have a project selected as a filter and a label selected as a filter.
2. Scrolled way down to an obscure ticket.
3. Click on a link in the ticket. You now go to the new page, but on back all of the filter settings and position information is lost.

Seems like there are a couple of solutions:

1. Always link off the site for external links (any links)
2. remember in the URL the filter settings to reload the page properly. Also would handle the link sharing use case.

[dahlbyk]

1. Always link off the site for external links (any links)

We already do this when we link issue numbers out to the corresponding GitHub issue, but we definitely need to do the same for links within issue descriptions/comments.

2. remember in the URL the filter settings to reload the page properly. Also would handle the link sharing use case.

Interesting...so we have almost all the pieces in place to do this already, we just don't quite do it correctly.

• https://huboard.com/huboard/huboard#/?assignee=[%22discorick%22]&repo=[%22huboard%22] restores filters.
• https://huboard.com/huboard/huboard#/issues/100625257 reopens the requested issue.
• https://huboard.com/huboard/huboard#/issues/100625257?assignee=[%22discorick%22]&repo=[%22huboard%22] reopens the requested issue but does not restore the filters - this seems like it's probably just a parsing issue.

Also preserving scroll position adds another level of complexity that I'm honestly not sure how we would be able to handle browser-wise, even if we didn't completely refresh the board when you navigate Back. Any ideas there?

All that said, we'll be able to fix the former much more easily than the latter.