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I don't see how it can be pretentious. Usually, I do it to avoid disturbing the flow of text reading.

To each their own I guess. But from another thread today, I'd much rather read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514 than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106

I guess there's no accounting for taste.

(Or, perhaps meta:

I'd much rather read [1] than [2]. Too much bouncing around; I'm not even sure if it's worse when the text is large compared to the research paper citations, or small.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955514

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955106 )

For my part I much prefer your second variant here, especially when the URL has a long path or query string.

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