It would be nice to have an option to pin/protect tabs as a way to prevent accidentally changing the content of the current tab when clicking elsewhere in the channel/dms list.

Possibly combined with an option to make all elements clicked open in a new tab automatically?

Yes, I think I will add something like this. Probably a combination of pinning or locking a tab, plus some editable set of rules of when opening links or clicking things should navigate the current tab or open a new tab. Right now, the rules are just written in the Ripcord code, but it would be better if users could customize it to their liking.

I'd like to add my +1 to this feature request. While I absolutely love having tabs, I try not to open too many, but there are also some that I always want to have open, but I keep accidentally navigating away from them.

I would like to add my +1 to this feature request as well.