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the word is the last segment of the url. very readable

It was cropped to just displaying as https://en.wikipedia.org/wi.. on my mobile screen - so not really readable here.

and on desktop for me

Does the shorter enwp.org/Steganography render any better? It's quite handy for English Wikipedia links.

(Edit: hmm, without the "https://" it seems to depend on the browsers ability to recognise a URL.)

I think any length of link would have been fine if commenter just put

"for stenography (link)"

Or to use another HNism

"Stenography[1]"

Those interested could click it, those not could still read the comment.

Not on mobile it isn't. Unless they really are saying we should stop using English Wikipedia.