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State your hypothesis, tying your project back to the impact it might have.

This isn't so much a project as a small change that would be nice.

What problem are we trying to solve for our communities with this experiment? How might it help us better serve them?

When I link to other articles or websites within the body of my articles, they direct people away from our website instead of opening a new tab. Before the recent Arc changes, any links that were added within Arc used to open new tabs, but that wasn't the case for text pasted from Google Docs. Now it appears all links automatically redirect users away from our site. It would be nice if all links within the body of our articles opened new tabs, whether they were added in Arc or pasted from Google Docs. As it stands now, I need to manually edit links so they open new tabs. Before recent Arc changes, that process was a little easier, but now there's an extra step I have to click to make those changes.

Lay out the potential project steps to the best of your ability, including key teams that would need to be consulted. This is your best knowledge of the systems, tools and lift that would be required.

This isn't so much a project as a small change that would be nice.

Effort (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
Urgency (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
Business Impact (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
Cost (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 1
Alignment with Values (scale of 1-lowest to 4-highest) 2
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    • Lowell Kissling
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      Mar 20, 2025

      This has been completed.

    • Heather Young
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      Feb 3, 2025

      Arc has released a fix for this on both sandbox and production. I've verified the fix on sandbox.

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      Margaux Maxwell
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      Nov 20, 2024

      Blocked - waiting on Arc

    • Heather Young
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      Nov 15, 2024

      This is a checkbox setting I can turn on in composer. I've set it up in sandbox.