It does work, even with long titles. However, this is display feature (appearance only) and is subject to change. It's not the same as button that creats a real text string of the form: [title](url) which you can copy/paste anywhere without depending on the page to regenerate the appearance of the title.

Also, I'm not sure what happens to the title generation/appearance if the original post is deleted the displayed text reverts back to the bare url (per comments below, thanks folks!).

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102

Slightly nonstandard questions from new users frequently getting the silent, drive-by insta-close votes, can something be done?

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102

Is voting to close a question for "primarily opinion-based answers" while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?

It does work, even with long titles. However, this is display feature (appearance only) and is subject to change. It's not the same as button that creats a real text string of the form: [title](url) which you can copy/paste anywhere without depending on the page to regenerate the appearance of the title.

Also, I'm not sure what happens to the title generation/appearance if the original post is deleted the displayed text reverts back to the bare url (per comments below, thanks folks!).

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102

Slightly nonstandard questions from new users frequently getting the silent, drive-by insta-close votes, can something be done?

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102

Is voting to close a question for "primarily opinion-based answers" while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?

However it doesn't seem to work for questions from another site:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22022/did-the-space-shuttle-boat-tail-used-in-the-transport-configuration-save-fuel

so here I've done it manually again. Here's how it looked before my edit (after I re-pasted the url just to make sure):

It does work, even with long titles. However, this is display feature (appearance only) and is subject to change. It's not the same as button that creats a real text string of the form: [title](url) which you can copy/paste anywhere without depending on the page to regenerate the appearance of the title.

Also I'm not sure what happens to the title generation/appearance if the original post is deleted.

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102

Slightly nonstandard questions from new users frequently getting the silent, drive-by insta-close votes, can something be done?

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102

Is voting to close a question for "primarily opinion-based answers" while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?

It does work, even with long titles. However, this is display feature (appearance only) and is subject to change. It's not the same as button that creats a real text string of the form: [title](url) which you can copy/paste anywhere without depending on the page to regenerate the appearance of the title.

Also, I'm not sure what happens to the title generation/appearance if the original post is deleted the displayed text reverts back to the bare url (per comments below, thanks folks!).

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1128/12102

Slightly nonstandard questions from new users frequently getting the silent, drive-by insta-close votes, can something be done?

Testing https://space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1112/12102

Is voting to close a question for "primarily opinion-based answers" while answering with fact exercising faulty logic, or even gamesmanship?