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The Discord/Twitter "buttons" on your site actually highlight one of the issues here. You can't open them in a new tab, or hover to see where they're taking you. They also don't make the mouse react properly to being on something clickable (though that could be fixed with a `cursor: pointer` style)

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Which is actually a clear illustration of the point: that you have to go out of your way to make "link-like" things that aren't actual links. Clearly whatever framework or rendering library the site is using supports client-side navigation via real working anchor tags. But for some reason, they decided to not use those for the social media widgets.

Historically, only links got the pointer (hand) cursor, not all clickable things. Buttons and everything else kept the regular arrow cursor. Desktop software on all operating systems has always worked like this.

However, this convention has been muddied a lot on the Web in the past few years, but I still like to follow it.

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