Linking to a Trello card without the link text being replaced

Question

In the description of a Trello card I would like to link to another card, but I want the link text to be custom.

However Trello seems to unconditionally replace whatever I wrote with the title of the card. Here's an example.

The Markdown source of the card's description is

You should check out [this other card I made](https://trello.com/c/MxFdDPZE/1-this-is-a-card-with-a-title), it's pretty good.

but Trello renders it like this:

Is there a way to force Trello to respect my custom link text without resorting to hacks like using a URL shortener?

Answer 1

A workaround is to take out the "http://" and it should work how you want it to.

[text](trello.com/c/MxFdDPZE/1-this-is-a-card-with-a-title)

Answer 2

Apparently this behavior is intentional:

@balpha What you're seeing is expected—we 'trellify' any Trello links, even in Markdown. We'll pass your use case on to the team, though!

and thus the answer is currently "no".

Answer 3

You can used shortened links, like from bit.ly, to get the behavior you desire. Of course, you risk your link looking suspicious but at least you get your link text.