diff --git a/damus/Util/URIParsing.swift b/damus/Util/URIParsing.swift
index d63681ef..6c7df5d9 100644
--- a/damus/Util/URIParsing.swift
+++ b/damus/Util/URIParsing.swift
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 import Foundation
 
+fileprivate let MAX_CHAR_URL = 80
+
 private func remove_damus_uri_prefix(_ s: String) -> String {
     var uri = s.replacingOccurrences(of: "https://damus.io/r/", with: "")
     uri = uri.replacingOccurrences(of: "https://damus.io/", with: "")
@@ -32,3 +34,12 @@ func remove_nostr_uri_prefix(_ s: String) -> String {
     
     return uri
 }
+
+func abbreviateURL(_ url: URL) -> String {
+    let urlString = url.absoluteString
+    
+    if urlString.count > MAX_CHAR_URL {
+        return String(urlString.prefix(MAX_CHAR_URL)) + "..."
+    }
+    return urlString
+}
diff --git a/damus/Views/NoteContentView.swift b/damus/Views/NoteContentView.swift
index 9687ef04..ef2253be 100644
--- a/damus/Views/NoteContentView.swift
+++ b/damus/Views/NoteContentView.swift
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ struct NoteContentView: View {
                         .frame(height: 1)
                     switch artifacts.media[index] {
                     case .image(let url), .video(let url):
-                        Text(url.absoluteString)
+                        Text(abbreviateURL(url))
                             .font(eventviewsize_to_font(size, font_size: damus_state.settings.font_size))
                             .foregroundStyle(DamusColors.neutral6)
                             .multilineTextAlignment(.leading)