diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
index 3edc4e641..f797df348 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/dialect.js
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ Discourse.Dialect = {
       Discourse.Dialect.inlineRegexp({
         matcher: /((?:https?:(?:\/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.])(?:[^\s()<>]+|\([^\s()<>]+\))+(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)|[^`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’\s]))/gm,
         spaceBoundary: true,
+        start: 'http',
 
         emitter: function(matches) {
           var url = matches[1];