[dmje]

What’s mainly annoying is how this has broken HN layout. There’s some CSS for that.

[whiteboardr]

It will go down in HN-history as the one exception, where it was ok to not use the page title verbatim.

[anon_cow1111]

I read the article and was disappointed that the full "word" got cut off, but I know that somewhere, there's a German out there who will post something even longer.

[larusso]

I’m German and think the idea to compound words into one should not really count as the longest / a long word. I mean yes it is but also it isn’t. Like: “ Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung” In the end it’s just slapping words together and count it as one.

[dkga]

Agree

[blauditore]

Seems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?

[Etheryte]

Jfyi the title has been edited now, it was the actual word previously which was not broken and just made the page super wide on mobile.

[omnicognate]

It was fine on my iOS Safari with a small screen. It automatically hyphenated it, differently depending on orientation.

Presumably not on other browsers, though, as lots of people were complaining.

[Y-bar]

Safari on iOS 26.2 did not hyphenate it for me. I bet it has something to do with which languages are installed.

[dmje]

Ta!

[Y-bar]

Especially not working on mobile because the long word pushes for wider column and therefore a more zoomed out view.

[red_Seashell_32]

`word-break: break-all;` would solve that.

[culi]

"solve" is a strong word. The rest of HN would basically be unreadable