diff --git a/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte b/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40a69fe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+    import { linkify } from '$lib/utils/linkify';
+
+    /** One answer as the backend sent it: a tick-box is a bool, the rest text. */
+    let { value }: { value: string | boolean } = $props();
+
+    const segments = $derived(typeof value === 'string' ? linkify(value) : []);
+</script>
+
+<!--
+  Every place an answer's value is printed goes through here, so there is one
+  answer to "what does an answer look like on a page" rather than one per view.
+
+  The link colour and underline match `.markdown-body a` in the theme, because a
+  link is a link wherever a reader meets one. The `target`/`rel` pair is the same
+  policy the markdown sanitizer applies in its `afterSanitizeAttributes` hook —
+  restated here rather than shared, since this path deliberately never builds an
+  HTML string for DOMPurify to clean. Nothing below is `{@html}`: Svelte escapes
+  the text segments, and the only strings that reach an `href` are ones that
+  matched an http(s) pattern.
+
+  The markup is packed tight on purpose. Whitespace between these tags would be
+  rendered, putting a space in the middle of somebody's sentence wherever a link
+  starts or ends.
+-->
+<!-- eslint-disable svelte/no-navigation-without-resolve -- an answer's address is
+     always off-site; resolve() is for this app's own routes. Disabled over the
+     whole template because the anchor cannot carry a line of its own: a comment
+     between these tags is fine, but the newline before it is not. -->
+{#if typeof value === 'boolean'}{value
+        ? 'Yes'
+        : 'No'}{:else}{#each segments as segment, i (i)}{#if segment.kind === 'link'}<a
+                href={segment.href}
+                target="_blank"
+                rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                class="break-all text-accent-ink underline underline-offset-[0.15em]"
+                >{segment.href}</a
+            >{:else}{segment.value}{/if}{/each}{/if}
+<!-- eslint-enable svelte/no-navigation-without-resolve -->
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.test.ts b/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68b8b651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/frontend/src/lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/svelte"
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"
+
+import AnswerText from "./AnswerText.svelte"
+
+/*
+ * The splitting is covered in utils/linkify.test.ts. What is left to prove here
+ * is what only rendering can show: that a link opens away from the app without
+ * handing the opener over, and that packing the markup tight really does leave
+ * the sentence intact — a stray newline between the tags would put a space in
+ * the middle of somebody's answer, and no unit test of the splitter would see
+ * it.
+ */
+
+describe("AnswerText", () => {
+  it("says a tick-box answer in words", () => {
+    const { container } = render(AnswerText, { props: { value: true } })
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe("Yes")
+  })
+
+  it("says the other tick-box answer in words", () => {
+    const { container } = render(AnswerText, { props: { value: false } })
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe("No")
+  })
+
+  it("prints an answer with no address as it was written", () => {
+    const answer = "I have been to three of these."
+    const { container } = render(AnswerText, { props: { value: answer } })
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe(answer)
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it("links an address and leaves the sentence around it unchanged", () => {
+    const answer = "mine is https://example.dev/me, come and look."
+    const { container } = render(AnswerText, { props: { value: answer } })
+
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe(answer)
+
+    const link = screen.getByRole("link")
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute("href", "https://example.dev/me")
+    expect(link).toHaveTextContent("https://example.dev/me")
+  })
+
+  it("opens a link away from the app without handing over the opener", () => {
+    render(AnswerText, { props: { value: "https://example.dev" } })
+
+    const link = screen.getByRole("link")
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute("target", "_blank")
+    expect(link).toHaveAttribute("rel", "noopener noreferrer")
+  })
+
+  it("puts markup in an answer on the page as text", () => {
+    const answer = "<b>bold</b> and https://example.dev"
+    const { container } = render(AnswerText, { props: { value: answer } })
+
+    expect(container.textContent).toBe(answer)
+    expect(container.querySelector("b")).toBeNull()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.test.ts b/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13f1dbd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"
+
+import { linkify } from "./linkify"
+
+/** The hrefs found, in order — most cases only care about these. */
+const links = (text: string) =>
+  linkify(text)
+    .filter((s) => s.kind === "link")
+    .map((s) => s.href)
+
+/** Everything a reader would see, links included, back as one string. */
+const spoken = (text: string) =>
+  linkify(text)
+    .map((s) => (s.kind === "link" ? s.href : s.value))
+    .join("")
+
+describe("linkify", () => {
+  it("leaves an answer with no address as one run of text", () => {
+    expect(linkify("I have been to three of these.")).toEqual([
+      { kind: "text", value: "I have been to three of these." },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("has nothing to say about an empty answer", () => {
+    expect(linkify("")).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("finds an address on its own", () => {
+    expect(linkify("https://example.dev")).toEqual([
+      { kind: "link", href: "https://example.dev" },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("keeps the words on either side of an address", () => {
+    expect(linkify("see https://example.dev for more")).toEqual([
+      { kind: "text", value: "see " },
+      { kind: "link", href: "https://example.dev" },
+      { kind: "text", value: " for more" },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("finds every address in an answer", () => {
+    expect(links("https://a.dev and http://b.dev/x?y=1")).toEqual([
+      "https://a.dev",
+      "http://b.dev/x?y=1",
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("leaves the full stop to the sentence", () => {
+    expect(linkify("mine is https://example.dev/me.")).toEqual([
+      { kind: "text", value: "mine is " },
+      { kind: "link", href: "https://example.dev/me" },
+      { kind: "text", value: "." },
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("leaves a comma between two addresses to the sentence", () => {
+    expect(links("https://a.dev, https://b.dev")).toEqual([
+      "https://a.dev",
+      "https://b.dev",
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("keeps parens the address opened and drops the ones it did not", () => {
+    expect(links("(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_(bar))")).toEqual([
+      "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_(bar)",
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("drops a closing paren and the full stop after it", () => {
+    expect(links("(https://example.dev/a).")).toEqual(["https://example.dev/a"])
+  })
+
+  it("refuses a scheme that is not a way of fetching a page", () => {
+    // The whole point of the http(s)-only pattern: this is never a candidate,
+    // so it cannot be a link however the rest of the answer is written.
+    expect(links("javascript:alert(1)")).toEqual([])
+    expect(links("data:text/html,<script>alert(1)</script>")).toEqual([])
+    expect(links("file:///etc/passwd")).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("leaves markup in an answer as the text it is", () => {
+    const answer = "<script>alert(1)</script> https://example.dev"
+    expect(links(answer)).toEqual(["https://example.dev"])
+    expect(spoken(answer)).toBe(answer)
+  })
+
+  it("does not take a scheme with no host for an address", () => {
+    expect(links("write https:// in front of it")).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("does not mistake a filename for an address", () => {
+    expect(links("I mostly write node.js and some main.go")).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("gives back every character it was handed", () => {
+    const answer =
+      "repo: https://github.com/me/x (see the README), site https://me.dev/. thanks!"
+    expect(spoken(answer)).toBe(answer)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.ts b/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed450029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/frontend/src/lib/utils/linkify.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// A registration answer is free text, and the commonest useful thing somebody
+// puts in one is an address — their repo, their portfolio, the paper they want
+// to work from. Until now every reader had to select it and copy it by hand.
+//
+// This splits an answer into the runs that are addresses and the runs that are
+// not, so a component can render the first as anchors and leave the rest as
+// text. It deliberately produces *segments* rather than HTML: nothing here can
+// end up inside `{@html}`, so an answer can never carry markup onto the page.
+// That is the whole reason it is not routed through the markdown pipeline in
+// `./markdown`, which is for text an organizer wrote knowing it was markdown.
+
+import { isHttpUrl } from "./url"
+
+export type AnswerSegment =
+  | { kind: "text"; value: string }
+  /** `href` is also the visible text: see `linkify` on why they never differ. */
+  | { kind: "link"; href: string }
+
+/**
+ * A run that might be an address. Only the two schemes that can be followed
+ * safely are recognised at all, which is what keeps a `javascript:` or `data:`
+ * string from ever reaching an `href` — it is not that such a string is
+ * rejected later, it is that it is never a candidate.
+ *
+ * Angle brackets and quotes end the run because they are how somebody encloses
+ * a URL rather than part of one.
+ */
+const URL_CANDIDATE = /https?:\/\/[^\s<>"'`]+/g
+
+/** Punctuation that ends the sentence rather than the address. */
+const SENTENCE_ENDINGS = ".,;:!?'\""
+
+/** A closer only belongs to the URL if the URL opened it. */
+const CLOSERS: Record<string, string> = { ")": "(", "]": "[", "}": "{" }
+
+const occurrences = (text: string, char: string): number => {
+  let n = 0
+  for (const c of text) if (c === char) n++
+  return n
+}
+
+/**
+ * Gives back the trailing characters that belong to the sentence.
+ *
+ * `see https://x.dev/a.` should not link the full stop, and
+ * `(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_(bar))` should keep its inner parens and
+ * drop only the outer one — hence counting the pair rather than stripping every
+ * closer. Repeats until nothing more comes off, so `(https://x.dev/a).` loses
+ * both.
+ */
+function trimSentence(candidate: string): string {
+  let url = candidate
+
+  for (;;) {
+    const last = url.at(-1)
+    if (last === undefined) return url
+
+    if (SENTENCE_ENDINGS.includes(last)) {
+      url = url.slice(0, -1)
+      continue
+    }
+
+    const opener = CLOSERS[last]
+    if (opener && occurrences(url, last) > occurrences(url, opener)) {
+      url = url.slice(0, -1)
+      continue
+    }
+
+    return url
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * One answer, split into the parts that are addresses and the parts that are
+ * not. Text with no address in it comes back as a single text segment, which is
+ * the common case and renders exactly as it did before this existed.
+ *
+ * A link segment carries only its `href`, because the address as typed is also
+ * what is shown. That is not laziness: it means an answer cannot display one
+ * host while pointing at another, which is the trick a linkifier that accepted
+ * a label would hand to anybody filling in a form.
+ */
+export function linkify(text: string): AnswerSegment[] {
+  const segments: AnswerSegment[] = []
+  let cursor = 0
+
+  URL_CANDIDATE.lastIndex = 0
+  for (let match = URL_CANDIDATE.exec(text); match; ) {
+    const href = trimSentence(match[0])
+
+    // `https://` with nothing after it, or a run that trimmed down to one.
+    // Left as the text it is, and the scan resumes after it.
+    if (!isHttpUrl(href)) {
+      match = URL_CANDIDATE.exec(text)
+      continue
+    }
+
+    const before = text.slice(cursor, match.index)
+    if (before) segments.push({ kind: "text", value: before })
+    segments.push({ kind: "link", href })
+
+    // Past the address but not past the punctuation that followed it — that is
+    // still text somebody wrote, and the next address may be inside it.
+    cursor = match.index + href.length
+    URL_CANDIDATE.lastIndex = cursor
+    match = URL_CANDIDATE.exec(text)
+  }
+
+  const rest = text.slice(cursor)
+  if (rest) segments.push({ kind: "text", value: rest })
+
+  return segments
+}
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/manage/forms/registration/answers/+page.svelte b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/manage/forms/registration/answers/+page.svelte
index 49941148..0c0557e6 100644
--- a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/manage/forms/registration/answers/+page.svelte
+++ b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/manage/forms/registration/answers/+page.svelte
@@ -1,19 +1,11 @@
 <script lang="ts">
     import { resolve } from '$app/paths';
+    import AnswerText from '$lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte';
     import { questionKindLabel } from '$lib/utils/question';
     import type { PageData } from './$types';
 
     let { data }: { data: PageData } = $props();
 
-    // A tick-box answer is a boolean and has to be said in words; text and enum
-    // answers are already the words. Yes/No matches the tally above the list, so
-    // the two halves of a tick-box question read the same way.
-    function spoken(value: string | boolean): string {
-        if (typeof value === 'boolean') return value ? 'Yes' : 'No';
-
-        return value;
-    }
-
     const people = $derived(
         data.rosterSize === 1 ? '1 participant' : `${data.rosterSize} participants`
     );
@@ -122,7 +114,9 @@
                                     <span class="text-ink-2 {answer.departed ? 'italic' : ''}">
                                         {answer.name}
                                     </span>
-                                    <span class="text-ink">{spoken(answer.value)}</span>
+                                    <span class="min-w-0 break-words text-ink">
+                                        <AnswerText value={answer.value} />
+                                    </span>
                                 </li>
                             {/each}
                         </ul>
@@ -142,7 +136,7 @@
                                      answer is a sentence somebody wrote. Wrapped so a
                                      pasted paragraph does not stretch the card. -->
                                 <p class="prose m-0 text-sm break-words text-ink">
-                                    {spoken(answer.value)}
+                                    <AnswerText value={answer.value} />
                                 </p>
                             </li>
                         {/each}
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/[participantId]/+page.svelte b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/[participantId]/+page.svelte
index f331fd29..a94094e9 100644
--- a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/[participantId]/+page.svelte
+++ b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/[participantId]/+page.svelte
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
     import { resolve } from '$app/paths';
+    import AnswerText from '$lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte';
     import type { PageData } from './$types';
 
     let { data }: { data: PageData } = $props();
@@ -152,12 +153,11 @@
                                 {answer.label}
                             </dt>
                             <dd class="m-0 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2">
-                                <span class="text-body leading-snug text-ink">
-                                    {#if typeof answer.value === 'boolean'}
-                                        {answer.value ? 'Yes' : 'No'}
-                                    {:else}
-                                        {answer.value}
-                                    {/if}
+                                <!-- `min-w-0` so a pasted address wraps: a flex item
+                                     will not shrink below its content, and one long
+                                     URL would otherwise widen the whole row. -->
+                                <span class="min-w-0 break-words text-body leading-snug text-ink">
+                                    <AnswerText value={answer.value} />
                                 </span>
                                 <!-- Only on your own profile: on anyone else's every
                                      entry is shared, so a chip on all of them says
diff --git a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/manage/[participantId]/+page.svelte b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/manage/[participantId]/+page.svelte
index dd2bfef9..b0edb419 100644
--- a/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/manage/[participantId]/+page.svelte
+++ b/components/frontend/src/routes/(app)/my/hackathon/[id]/participants/manage/[participantId]/+page.svelte
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
     import { resolve } from '$app/paths';
+    import AnswerText from '$lib/components/hackathon/AnswerText.svelte';
     import { membershipBadgeVariant } from '$lib/utils/hackathonRole';
     import type { ActionData, PageData } from './$types';
 
@@ -145,12 +146,10 @@
                 {#each data.answers as answer (answer.questionId)}
                     <div class="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2">
                         <dt class="text-xs text-ink-3">{answer.label}</dt>
-                        <dd class="m-0 text-xs text-ink">
-                            {#if typeof answer.value === 'boolean'}
-                                {answer.value ? 'Yes' : 'No'}
-                            {:else}
-                                {answer.value}
-                            {/if}
+                        <!-- `min-w-0` so a pasted address wraps rather than
+                             widening the row: see the participant profile. -->
+                        <dd class="m-0 min-w-0 break-words text-xs text-ink">
+                            <AnswerText value={answer.value} />
                         </dd>
                         {#if answer.publicAnswers}
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