Remove /category/ from url if Category base field in permalinks is empty

[brody182]

so basically if my category base field is empty the url should not display "category"

​https://wordpress.org/category/taking-charge/

should be

​https://wordpress.org/taking-charge/

currently both links work but only one displays the category archive, the other just displays the category title.

[Presskopp]

As long as 'taking-charge' is a category, it should be treated as such, I'd say. Also I am unable to reproduce the mentioned behaviour.

Also nobody seems to bother since 5 years. Let's close the ticket.