diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 51cf6c9..73700f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Link cards show what distinguishes the link, not just its host. The display text was
+  the hostname alone, so every link to a platform rendered identically — two posts
+  pointing at different repositories both read `github.com`. The path is now kept, with
+  whole trailing segments dropped until it fits the pill, so a long path shortens rather
+  than truncating mid-word. Bare-domain links are unaffected. Applies to the feed card
+  and the article detail page, which share the helper.
+- The link pill can no longer wrap to a second line or widen the page. It was
+  `width: fit-content` with no bound, so a long enough target grew past its card;
+  it now caps at its container with a single-line ellipsis, verified down to a 60px
+  container on both surfaces.
 - An unset `TEMPLATES_PATH` no longer globs the working directory. `filepath.Join("",
   "*.html")` is `"*.html"`, so any unrelated `.html` file in the directory markgo happened
   to start in was parsed as the template set, and boot failed with a set missing every
diff --git a/internal/services/template.go b/internal/services/template.go
index 7601113..8f114f0 100644
--- a/internal/services/template.go
+++ b/internal/services/template.go
@@ -967,17 +967,7 @@ var templateFuncs = template.FuncMap{
 			return t.Format("Jan 2")
 		}
 	},
-	"extractDomain": func(urlStr string) string {
-		u, err := url.Parse(urlStr)
-		if err != nil {
-			return urlStr
-		}
-		host := u.Hostname()
-		if host == "" {
-			return urlStr
-		}
-		return strings.TrimPrefix(host, "www.")
-	},
+	"extractDomain": extractLinkDisplay,
 	"displayTitle": func(a *models.Article) string {
 		return a.DisplayTitle()
 	},
@@ -1007,6 +997,54 @@ var templateFuncs = template.FuncMap{
 	},
 }
 
+// linkDisplayCap bounds the link pill's text. The 320px card leaves the pill about
+// 218px of text room once container padding, card padding, the pill's own padding,
+// the gap and the arrow are subtracted — roughly 32 characters at --font-size-sm.
+// CSS truncation is the structural guarantee that the pill never wraps; this cap is
+// what keeps the text readable, because it drops whole path segments instead of
+// cutting a word in half.
+const linkDisplayCap = 32
+
+// extractLinkDisplay renders a link target as display text for the link pill.
+//
+// The host alone is not enough when the host is a platform: two github.com links
+// render identically and the path carries the entire identity. So the path is kept,
+// and trailing segments are dropped whole until the result fits — a truncated
+// segment reads worse than a shorter path. Scheme, "www.", fragment and trailing
+// slash are always dropped.
+//
+// Query strings are deliberately not shown. A query wide enough to distinguish
+// (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345) overflows the mobile card, and the card's
+// title already carries primary identity — the pill is secondary context.
+//
+// Registered as "extractDomain" because operator templates loaded via
+// TEMPLATES_PATH call it by that name; renaming would break them at render time.
+func extractLinkDisplay(urlStr string) string {
+	u, err := url.Parse(urlStr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return urlStr
+	}
+	host := strings.TrimPrefix(u.Hostname(), "www.")
+	if host == "" {
+		return urlStr
+	}
+
+	segments := strings.FieldsFunc(
+		strings.TrimSuffix(u.EscapedPath(), "/"),
+		func(r rune) bool { return r == '/' },
+	)
+	for len(segments) > 0 {
+		candidate := host + "/" + strings.Join(segments, "/")
+		if utf8.RuneCountInString(candidate) <= linkDisplayCap {
+			return candidate
+		}
+		segments = segments[:len(segments)-1]
+	}
+	// Host alone may still exceed the cap; CSS truncates it rather than this
+	// returning something that isn't a real hostname.
+	return host
+}
+
 // Helper function
 func toFloat(v any) (float64, bool) {
 	switch v := v.(type) {
diff --git a/internal/services/template_test.go b/internal/services/template_test.go
index 41af46e..a2902c9 100644
--- a/internal/services/template_test.go
+++ b/internal/services/template_test.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"testing/fstest"
 	"time"
+	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -1207,3 +1208,63 @@ func TestLoadTemplates_EmptyPathIgnoresStrayHTMLInWorkingDir(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Nil(t, service.templates.Lookup("unrelated.html"),
 		"a stray CWD file must never enter the template set")
 }
+
+func TestExtractLinkDisplay(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		in   string
+		want string
+	}{
+		// The bare-domain posts must render byte-identical to the host-only
+		// behaviour they had before, or this fix regresses seven cards to fix two.
+		{"bare host", "https://aipolicy.1mb.dev", "aipolicy.1mb.dev"},
+		{"bare host trailing slash", "https://geetanjaliapp.com/", "geetanjaliapp.com"},
+		{"www stripped", "https://www.example.com/", "example.com"},
+
+		// The defect: two platform links that both rendered "github.com".
+		{"platform path kept", "https://github.com/rupa/z", "github.com/rupa/z"},
+		{"platform path kept, longer", "https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3", "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"},
+
+		{"fragment dropped", "https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-file-retract", "go.dev/ref/mod"},
+
+		// Query deliberately not shown — it cannot fit the mobile pill, and the
+		// card title carries primary identity.
+		{"query dropped", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345", "news.ycombinator.com/item"},
+
+		// Over the cap: whole segments are dropped, never a mid-word cut.
+		{
+			"deep path drops whole segments",
+			"https://example.com/a/very/deep/path/that/keeps/going/and/going/forever",
+			"example.com/a/very/deep/path",
+		},
+
+		// Degenerate inputs keep the previous passthrough behaviour.
+		{"not a url", "not a url", "not a url"},
+		{"no host", "/relative/path", "/relative/path"},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, extractLinkDisplay(tc.in))
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Whatever the helper emits must fit the pill's character budget on its own. The
+// CSS ellipsis is the safety net for pathological input; it should not be what
+// keeps ordinary links readable.
+func TestExtractLinkDisplay_StaysWithinPillBudget(t *testing.T) {
+	longs := []string{
+		"https://example.com/a/very/deep/path/that/keeps/going/and/going/forever",
+		"https://github.com/some-org/some-really-long-repository-name-here",
+		"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345",
+		"https://go.dev/ref/mod#go-mod-file-retract",
+	}
+	for _, u := range longs {
+		got := extractLinkDisplay(u)
+		assert.LessOrEqual(t, utf8.RuneCountInString(got), linkDisplayCap,
+			"%q rendered %q, over the %d-char pill budget", u, got, linkDisplayCap)
+		assert.NotContains(t, got, "…",
+			"segments are dropped whole, so no ellipsis should reach the template")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/web/static/css/article.css b/web/static/css/article.css
index 0db7f10..5b39cea 100644
--- a/web/static/css/article.css
+++ b/web/static/css/article.css
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@
     padding: var(--spacing-1) var(--spacing-3);
     background-color: var(--color-bg-tertiary);
     border-radius: var(--radius-md);
+    /* Bounds the pill to its container so a long target cannot widen the page.
+       See .feed-card-link-url — same contract, same reason. */
+    max-width: 100%;
     transition: background-color var(--transition-fast);
 }
 
@@ -100,11 +103,18 @@
 
 .article-link-domain {
     font-weight: 500;
+    /* min-width:0 defeats the flex default of min-width:auto, without which the
+       item refuses to shrink below its content and the ellipsis never applies. */
+    min-width: 0;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
 .article-link-arrow {
     font-size: var(--font-size-xs);
     opacity: 0.7;
+    flex-shrink: 0;
 }
 
 /* AMA type — question is the header, answer is the body */
diff --git a/web/static/css/cards.css b/web/static/css/cards.css
index c52fc65..28e1755 100644
--- a/web/static/css/cards.css
+++ b/web/static/css/cards.css
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@
     background-color: var(--color-bg-tertiary);
     border-radius: var(--radius-md);
     width: fit-content;
+    /* fit-content grows to the text, so without this a long target widens the pill
+       past the card and scrolls the page. The link helper caps its output, but CSS
+       is the guarantee — no input can wrap the pill to a second line. */
+    max-width: 100%;
     transition: background-color var(--transition-fast);
 }
 
@@ -169,11 +173,19 @@
 
 .feed-card-domain {
     font-weight: 500;
+    /* min-width:0 is load-bearing — a flex item defaults to min-width:auto, which
+       refuses to shrink below its content and defeats the ellipsis entirely. */
+    min-width: 0;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
 .feed-card-external-icon {
     font-size: var(--font-size-xs);
     opacity: 0.7;
+    /* The arrow is the affordance; the text yields to it, never the reverse. */
+    flex-shrink: 0;
 }
 
 /* AMA Card */