diff --git a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateCategoryPopup.qml b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateCategoryPopup.qml
index c5d6e8b229..7cc0fdb0c1 100644
--- a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateCategoryPopup.qml
+++ b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateCategoryPopup.qml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ StatusModal {
 
     property bool isEdit: false
 
-    readonly property int maxCategoryNameLength: 30
+    readonly property int maxCategoryNameLength: 24
     readonly property var categoryNameValidator: Utils.Validate.NoEmpty
                                                  | Utils.Validate.TextLength
 
diff --git a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateChannelPopup.qml b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateChannelPopup.qml
index f78a901a74..e63ad348c1 100644
--- a/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateChannelPopup.qml
+++ b/ui/app/AppLayouts/Chat/popups/community/CreateChannelPopup.qml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ StatusModal {
     readonly property var communityColorValidator: Utils.Validate.NoEmpty
                                                    | Utils.Validate.TextHexColor
 
-    readonly property int maxChannelNameLength: 30
+    readonly property int maxChannelNameLength: 24
     readonly property int maxChannelDescLength: 140
 
     signal createCommunityChannel(string chName, string chDescription, string chEmoji,
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ StatusModal {
                 id: nameInput
                 label: qsTr("Channel name")
                 charLimit: popup.maxChannelNameLength
-                input.placeholderText: qsTr("Name the channel")
+                input.placeholderText: qsTr("# Name the channel")
                 input.onTextChanged: {
                     input.text = Utils.convertSpacesToDashesAndUpperToLowerCase(input.text);
                     input.cursorPosition = input.text.length
@@ -123,10 +123,12 @@ StatusModal {
                     popup.emojiPopup.y = popup.y + nameInput.height + 2*Style.current.xlPadding
                 }
                 validationMode: StatusInput.ValidationMode.Always
-                validators: [StatusMinLengthValidator {
-                    minLength: 1
-                    errorMessage: Utils.getErrorMessage(nameInput.errors, qsTr("channel name"))
-                }]
+                validators: [
+                    StatusMinLengthValidator {
+                        minLength: 1
+                        errorMessage: Utils.getErrorMessage(nameInput.errors, qsTr("channel name"))
+                    }
+                ]
             }
 
             Item {