diff --git a/discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml b/discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml
--- a/discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml
+++ b/discover/qml/ApplicationPage.qml
@@ -157,6 +157,15 @@
             Layout.fillWidth: true
             wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
             text: appInfo.application.longDescription
+            onLinkActivated: Qt.openUrlExternally(link);
+            // Since Text (and Label) lack cursor-changing abilities of their own,
+            // as suggested by QTBUG-30804, use a MouseAra to do our dirty work.
+            // See comment https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-30804?#comment-206287
+            MouseArea {
+                anchors.fill: parent
+                cursorShape: parent.hoveredLink ? Qt.PointingHandCursor : Qt.ArrowCursor
+                acceptedButtons: Qt.NoButton // Not actually accepting clicks, just changing the cursor
+            }
         }
 
         Kirigami.Heading {
diff --git a/libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp b/libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp
--- a/libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp
+++ b/libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
         if(newLine>0) {
             ret=ret.left(newLine);
         }
-        ret = ret.replace(QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("\\[/?[a-z]*\\]")), QString());
+        ret = ret.replace(QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("\\[\\/?[a-z]*\\]")), QString());
         ret = ret.remove(QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("<[^>]*>")));
     }
     return ret;
@@ -97,7 +97,12 @@
     }
     ret = ret.replace(QLatin1Char('\r'), QString());
     ret = ret.replace(QStringLiteral("[li]"), QStringLiteral("\n* "));
-    ret = ret.replace(QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("\\[/?[a-z]*\\]")), QString());
+    // Get rid of all BBCode markup we don't handle above
+    ret = ret.replace(QRegularExpression(QStringLiteral("\\[\\/?[a-z]*\\]")), QString());
+    // Find anything that looks like a link (but which also is not some html
+    // tag value or another already) and make it a link
+    static const QRegularExpression urlRegExp(QStringLiteral("(^|\\s)([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\\+.~#?&//=]{2,256}\\.[a-z]{2,4}\\b(\\/[-a-zA-Z0-9@:;%_\\+.~#?&//=]*)?)"), QRegularExpression::CaseInsensitiveOption);
+    ret = ret.replace(urlRegExp, QStringLiteral("<a href=\"\\2\">\\2</a>"));
     return ret;
 }