element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Clicking on links in a reply unexpectedly permalinks you to the reply

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A-Replies O-Frequent S-Minor T-Defect
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Description

### Steps to reproduce

1. Take a reply, where the message being replied do contains a link
2. Hover over the link, and get a nice tooltip of the URL
3. Click on it
4. Rather than being taken to the URL (as expected by the tooltip), you get permalinked to the original msg.
5. Feel irritated
6. Click on the URL again.

### Outcome

#### What did you expect?

Options include:
1. Tooltip not shown at all
2. Tooltip appears for the whole quoted msg in the reply, saying "jump to original msg"
3. Don't hyperlink the whole original msg to permalink to the original, just the timestamp
4. Don't hyperlink the whole original msg at all, expand the original message to full size of clicked (hiding tooltips until it's expanded, if it needs to be expanded) - and then let the user interact normally with it.

Unsure what the right solution is.

#### What happened instead?

Frustration.

### Operating system

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### Browser information

_No response_

### URL for webapp

_No response_

### Application version

nightly

### Homeserver

_No response_

### Will you send logs?

No

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