diff --git a/server/src/api/ui_html.rs b/server/src/api/ui_html.rs
index d1defd28242fd2ca3b886adc91a7070bef75e653..e649a7d192feade465e19ce6187a829f6ec74372 100644
--- a/server/src/api/ui_html.rs
+++ b/server/src/api/ui_html.rs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pub async fn post_ui_html(
             let tree = state.tree.read().await;
             let empty = crate::reducer::NodeState::default();
             let node = tree.get(&parent).unwrap_or(&empty);
-            let panel = ranking_panel(&parent, node);
+            let panel = ranking_panel(&parent, node, &tree);
             JsBuilder::new()
                 .morph_selector("#ranking-panel", panel)
                 .into_response()
diff --git a/server/src/fetch/mod.rs b/server/src/fetch/mod.rs
index 0177bb161cea1b72a100b52efdfc5e710271c9eb..35f968c21c69ca557bab7951413e3cfbbccfebfd 100644
--- a/server/src/fetch/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/fetch/mod.rs
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ pub fn fetch_entity_stream(
                 let mut b = JsBuilder::new()
                     .morph_selector("#entity-section", html::entity_section(&id, node, false));
                 if kind == FetchKind::Children {
-                    b = b.morph_selector("#ranking-panel", ranking_panel(&id, node));
+                    b = b.morph_selector("#ranking-panel", ranking_panel(&id, node, &tree));
                 }
                 yield Ok(js_event(b.build()));
             }
diff --git a/server/src/html/mod.rs b/server/src/html/mod.rs
index 27ce9118c73ec5643e04363ab1a36cf5da6101bf..e88cc43ddc9d8100f7994be6f5960ec4d8f22c55 100644
--- a/server/src/html/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/html/mod.rs
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use crate::{
     ranking::{
         connected_components_from_voted_pairs, ranked_items_subset, RankedItem, MAX_ITERS, TOL,
     },
-    reducer::NodeState,
+    reducer::{GlobalTree, NodeState},
     state::AppState,
     ui_action::UI_RPC_FIELD,
 };
@@ -182,8 +182,15 @@ fn display_label(id: &ItemId) -> String {
         .to_string()
 }
 
+fn child_label(tree: &GlobalTree, id: &ItemId) -> String {
+    tree.get(id)
+        .and_then(|n| n.data.as_ref())
+        .map(|d| d.title.clone())
+        .unwrap_or_else(|| display_label(id))
+}
+
 /// Plain (unscored) list of children that have no votes yet.
-fn unranked_list(label: &str, items: &[ItemId]) -> Markup {
+fn unranked_list(label: &str, items: &[ItemId], tree: &GlobalTree) -> Markup {
     html! {
         @if !items.is_empty() {
             h3 class="rank-heading muted small" { (label) }
@@ -191,7 +198,7 @@ fn unranked_list(label: &str, items: &[ItemId]) -> Markup {
                 @for it in items {
                     li {
                         a href=(item_href(it)) {
-                            strong { (display_label(it)) }
+                            strong { (child_label(tree, it)) }
                         }
                     }
                 }
@@ -200,7 +207,7 @@ fn unranked_list(label: &str, items: &[ItemId]) -> Markup {
     }
 }
 
-pub fn ranking_panel(item: &ItemId, node: &NodeState) -> Markup {
+pub fn ranking_panel(item: &ItemId, node: &NodeState, tree: &GlobalTree) -> Markup {
     let group = &node.local_ranking;
     let n = group.idx_to_item.len();
     let (comps, _isolates) =
@@ -248,7 +255,7 @@ pub fn ranking_panel(item: &ItemId, node: &NodeState) -> Markup {
                     @let label = if multi { format!("Ranking group {}", gi + 1) } else { "Ranking".to_string() };
                     (rank_list(&label, ranked, 1))
                 }
-                (unranked_list("Unranked", &unranked))
+                (unranked_list("Unranked", &unranked, tree))
             }
         }
     }
@@ -297,7 +304,7 @@ async fn item_page(state: AppState, uri: Uri, item: ItemId) -> Markup {
         (input_panel("", None))
         (breadcrumb_path(&item))
         (entity_section(&item, node, false))
-        (ranking_panel(&item, node))
+        (ranking_panel(&item, node, &tree))
     };
     layout("sorter2", body, views)
 }
diff --git a/server/src/reddit.rs b/server/src/reddit.rs
index a0eb688709478ee0185b953b41a5d26cc354764d..69d979bc7e4a1cb078f70114dc539bdc1986b574 100644
--- a/server/src/reddit.rs
+++ b/server/src/reddit.rs
@@ -300,9 +300,16 @@ async fn reddit_worker(
                     }
                     {
                         let mut tree = tree.write().await;
-                        apply_entity_import(&mut tree, &child_id, child_payload);
                         if kind == FetchKind::Children {
-                            tree.link_child(&fetch_id, &child_id);
+                            let view = entity_view_from_payload(&child_id, &child_payload);
+                            tree.apply_entity_under_parent(
+                                &fetch_id,
+                                &child_id,
+                                child_payload,
+                                view,
+                            );
+                        } else {
+                            apply_entity_import(&mut tree, &child_id, child_payload);
                         }
                     }
                     written += 1;
diff --git a/server/src/reducer.rs b/server/src/reducer.rs
index a36cd5c9287d61536f9f4a3f6b0df2342388857a..4e42d0369dab50bb2f8ca664aa69b628292f6c07 100644
--- a/server/src/reducer.rs
+++ b/server/src/reducer.rs
@@ -209,14 +209,24 @@ impl GlobalTree {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Directly attach `child` under `parent`, bypassing path-based nesting.
-    /// Used for imported listings (e.g. a subreddit's posts) so they show up
-    /// as children of the subreddit rather than a deep `…/comments/<id>` path.
-    pub fn link_child(&mut self, parent: &ItemId, child: &ItemId) {
+    /// Import entity data for `id` and attach it as a direct child of `parent`
+    /// without running [`Self::ensure_path`] on `id` (avoids Reddit `/comments/`
+    /// parent rules pulling intermediate path segments into the subreddit).
+    pub fn apply_entity_under_parent(
+        &mut self,
+        parent: &ItemId,
+        id: &ItemId,
+        payload: Value,
+        view: Option<EntityData>,
+    ) {
         self.ensure_path(parent);
-        self.ensure_path(child);
+        self.ensure_node(id);
+        if let Some(node) = self.nodes.get_mut(id) {
+            node.entity_raw = Some(payload);
+            node.data = view;
+        }
         if let Some(p) = self.nodes.get_mut(parent) {
-            p.children.insert(child.clone());
+            p.children.insert(id.clone());
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/reddit_import.clj b/test/reddit_import.clj
index 84cbdcf7965e50290313cbce2243a16b583d2097..45a2a19f20799d77e84d8aa64735ab5e7e45f97c 100644
--- a/test/reddit_import.clj
+++ b/test/reddit_import.clj
@@ -67,6 +67,36 @@
           (do (Thread/sleep 200) (recur))
           false)))))
 
+(defn- run-reddit-fetch-assertions [app-base data-dir]
+  (let [browse-url (str app-base "/~/https://reddit.com/r/rust")
+        log-path (str data-dir "/events.jsonl")
+        before (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
+                                    "curl" "-sf" browse-url))]
+    (is (str/includes? before "Fetch from Reddit"))
+    (is (not (str/includes? before "The Rust Programming Language")))
+    (let [sse (curl-fetch-ui-sse app-base "reddit.com/r/rust" "self")]
+      (is (zero? (:exit sse)) "POST /ui fetch_entity (self) SSE succeeds")
+      (is (str/includes? (:out sse) "Idiomorph.morph"))
+      (is (str/includes? (:out sse) "The Rust Programming Language"))
+      (is (wait-event-log log-path 2000) "event log written"))
+    (let [after (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
+                                     "curl" "-sf" browse-url))
+          log (slurp (io/file log-path))]
+      (is (str/includes? after "The Rust Programming Language"))
+      (is (str/includes? log "\"type\":\"entity_imported\""))
+      (is (str/includes? log "\"subscribers\":350000"))
+      (is (str/includes? log "\"display_name\":\"rust\"")))
+    (let [children-sse (curl-fetch-ui-sse app-base "reddit.com/r/rust" "children")]
+      (is (zero? (:exit children-sse)) "POST /ui fetch_entity (children) SSE succeeds")
+      (is (str/includes? (:out children-sse) "Idiomorph.morph"))
+      (is (str/includes? (:out children-sse) "Announcing Rust 1.99")))
+    (let [after-children (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
+                                              "curl" "-sf" browse-url))
+          log2 (slurp (io/file log-path))]
+      (is (str/includes? after-children "Announcing Rust 1.99"))
+      (is (str/includes? after-children "Unranked"))
+      (is (str/includes? log2 "announcing_rust_199")))))
+
 (deftest reddit-fetch-via-mock-api
   (testing "Fetch more queues import; event log stores full payload; page shows title"
     (let [root (repo-root)
@@ -102,24 +132,7 @@
                                     bin)]
           (try
             (is (wait-health app-base 20000) "app healthz")
-            (let [browse-url (str app-base "/~/https://reddit.com/r/rust")
-                  before (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
-                                              "curl" "-sf" browse-url))]
-              (is (str/includes? before "Fetch from Reddit"))
-              (is (not (str/includes? before "The Rust Programming Language")))
-              (let [log-path (str data-dir "/events.jsonl")
-                    sse (curl-fetch-ui-sse app-base "reddit.com/r/rust")]
-                (is (zero? (:exit sse)) "POST /ui fetch_entity SSE succeeds")
-                (is (str/includes? (:out sse) "event: complete"))
-                (is (str/includes? (:out sse) "The Rust Programming Language"))
-                (is (wait-event-log log-path 2000) "event log written")
-                (let [after (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
-                                                 "curl" "-sf" browse-url))
-                      log (slurp (io/file log-path))]
-                  (is (str/includes? after "The Rust Programming Language"))
-                  (is (str/includes? log "\"type\":\"entity_imported\""))
-                  (is (str/includes? log "\"subscribers\":350000"))
-                  (is (str/includes? log "\"display_name\":\"rust\"")))))
+            (run-reddit-fetch-assertions app-base data-dir)
             (finally
               (process/destroy proc))))
         (finally
diff --git a/test/smoke.clj b/test/smoke.clj
index 11887c48282088e140d823a88ba616f6325835b3..ce9f958c84b9a89ae55e215ab519f1df6435e24b 100644
--- a/test/smoke.clj
+++ b/test/smoke.clj
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
           (is (wait-health base 15000) "server responds to /healthz")
           (let [home (:out (process/shell {:out :string :err :string}
                                          "curl" "-sf" (str base "/")))]
-            (is (str/includes? home "vote-panel"))
+            (is (str/includes? home "entity-section"))
             (is (str/includes? home "ranking-panel"))
             (is (str/includes? home "parser-panel"))
             (is (str/includes? home "__rpc__")))