diff --git a/www/js/channel/chatPostprocessor.js b/www/js/channel/chatPostprocessor.js
index 818c533..4b8759d 100644
--- a/www/js/channel/chatPostprocessor.js
+++ b/www/js/channel/chatPostprocessor.js
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ class chatPostprocessor{
                 const link = document.createElement('a');
                 link.classList.add('chat-link', ...wordObj.filterClasses);
                 link.href = wordObj.link;
+                link.target = "_blank";
                 //Use textContent to be safe since links can't be escaped serverside
                 link.textContent = wordObj.link;
 
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ class chatPostprocessor{
                 const badLink = document.createElement('a');
                 badLink.classList.add('chat-dead-link', 'danger-link', ...wordObj.filterClasses);
                 badLink.href = wordObj.link;
+                badLink.target = "_blank";
                 //Use textContent to be safe since links can't be escaped serverside
                 badLink.textContent = wordObj.link;
 
@@ -213,6 +215,7 @@ class chatPostprocessor{
                 link.classList.add('chat-link', ...wordObj.filterClasses);
                 //Set href and inner text
                 link.href = `/c/${wordObj.chan}`;
+                link.target = "_blank"
                 link.textContent = wordObj.string;
 
                 //We don't have to worry about injecting this into whitespace since there shouldn't be any here.