diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/category_hashtag_dialect.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/category_hashtag_dialect.js
index f7a7f48d1e5..b0491091531 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/category_hashtag_dialect.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/category_hashtag_dialect.js
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Discourse.Dialect.inlineRegexp({
         categoryHashtagLookup = this.dialect.options.categoryHashtagLookup,
         result = categoryHashtagLookup && categoryHashtagLookup(slug);
 
-    if (result && result[0] === "category") {
-      return ['a', { class: attributeClass, href: result[1] }, '#', ["span", {}, slug]];
+    if (result) {
+      return ['a', { class: attributeClass, href: result }, '#', ["span", {}, slug]];
     } else {
       return ['span', { class: attributeClass }, hashtag];
     }
diff --git a/lib/pretty_text.rb b/lib/pretty_text.rb
index a7b62a83d15..eb9f079d779 100644
--- a/lib/pretty_text.rb
+++ b/lib/pretty_text.rb
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ module PrettyText
 
     def category_hashtag_lookup(category_slug)
       if category = Category.query_from_hashtag_slug(category_slug)
-        ['category', category.url_with_id]
+        category.url_with_id
       else
         nil
       end