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I noticed this while browsing the homepage:

screenshot of the week

I found it interesting and wanted to see the full size image so I can read better, but alas... clicking the image didn't do anything. Only way to see it is by right click and choosing "open image in a new tab".

Can the image please become a link that opens it?

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Based on our current roadmap, this isn't work that we will take on, as it doesn't coincide with functional areas that we plan to improve in the near future.

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    While I get that this isn't on the roadmap, I think it's worth raising that it would be quite a quick change, about an hour worth of effort (including code review and testing). In fact, what needs to happen is: add an <a> tag around the <img>, set the href attribute to the same url as the image src, and set target="_blank" to get it to open in a new tab. Here's an image showing what I mean. – Robotnik♦ Feb 23 at 1:27
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    How is this answer relevant. A roadmap is for big-ticket stuff; this request is hardly a pebble in the road. – MonkeyZeus Mar 19 at 14:49
  • @MonkeyZeus it's a canned response to all declined requests in whole SE network. Whether it's better or not than just rejecting without providing any answer is a good question. – Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard Mar 25 at 7:39
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Seeing as this has been brought up for the 3rd time now, I'm promoting my comment into a full answer, hopefully making it clear just how trivial a fix this is:

Here's the current code for the entire Screenshot widget (grabbed from the page):

<div class="s-sidebarwidget mb16 photo-of-the-week">
    <div class="s-sidebarwidget--header">
        Screenshot of the Week
    </div>
    <div class="s-sidebarwidget--content s-sidebarwidget__items">
        <div class="s-sidebarwidget--item d-block ta-center">
            <img class="wmx100" src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/d5zVQ.jpg" alt="Overlooking a Frozen Dam in Horizon Zero Dawn">
        </div>
        <div class="s-sidebarwidget--item d-block ta-center">
            <b>Overlooking a Frozen Dam in Horizon Zero Dawn</b> by <a href="/users/144891/arghtype">arghtype</a>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="s-sidebarwidget--content jc-space-between">
        <a class="mr32" href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/15682/screenshot-of-the-week-contest-35">Submit your photo</a>
        <a href="https://gaming.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14939/screenshot-of-the-week-hall-of-fame">Hall of fame</a>
    </div>
</div>

The part we care about is the <img ... /> tag. Here's what it probably looks like in the codebase, with variable names representing the changeable parts:

<img class="wmx100" src="@PhotoUrl" alt="@PhotoName">

Here's what needs to happen:

<a href="@PhotoUrl" target="_blank">
   <img class="wmx100" src="@PhotoUrl" alt="@PhotoName">
</a>

That's it.

  • Wrap the image in a link (<a> tag)
  • Set the link's href parameter to the same url as the image src
  • Set the link's target parameter to _blank, causing the link to open in a new tab.
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  • Nice, but I'm afraid it's a lost battle. Reminds me of this – Shadow The Vaccinated Wizard Mar 25 at 7:41
  • It's a shame that no amount of reputation allows for some mild HTML editing :) – Joachim Mar 25 at 8:43
  • @Shadow - If we ever want something to happen, especially relatively minor changes like this, it helps to have specific, actionable steps that would resolve it, which can then be used at the right time to point the appropriate people at it so it gets done. Despite being terribly confusing, [status-declined] in this case is not a final resting state, it is being used for 'not on Q1 roadmap'. Not what I would have done in SE's place, but it is what it is. – Robotnik♦ Mar 25 at 10:06
  • @Joachim It'd be nice if widgets like this could be open-sourced, so the community could submit improvements for SE to review and integrate as they saw fit. Yet another pipe-dream I suppose :) – Robotnik♦ Mar 25 at 10:52

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