Can we make inline links to subcategories more concise?

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

Continuing the discussion from Updating how categories are organized on Meta:

@ToddZ

Very minor observation: long inline links to subcategories don’t flow quite as naturally in a sentence…

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

This is something that is bugging me a lot in my own community category structure, fwiw.

[Moin]

It was added last year

UX: Show parent category name for category hashtags (#31188)

And while I don’t really like it I understand how it help to distinguish subcategories with identical names like Documentation > Self-Hosting and Support > Self-hosting

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

@Canapin

dual-color bullets that remind me very much of those gums:

@Moin

like Documentation > Self-Hosting

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@Canapin

dual-color bullets that remind me very much of those gums:

are they fond memories at least?

maybe we could only clarify with the full path if there’s an actual case of matching names across subcategories? is that too expensive of a lookup?

Or maybe it’s an opt-in customization instead? My personal use case for these mentions is usually meant in a “click there to go there” reference, a link to the full place rather than a map of how to get there. If I’m unsure of which category is being referenced, the click to find out doesn’t cost me anything.