From 6c68eb5e2bc76f68867994f31dfa90df9968bbb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Liebowitz <alex@alexliebowitz.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 04:08:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Publish: Add length check for new channel names

---
 ui/js/page/publish.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ui/js/page/publish.js b/ui/js/page/publish.js
index b7a0eac43..f6ded9a21 100644
--- a/ui/js/page/publish.js
+++ b/ui/js/page/publish.js
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ var PublishPage = React.createClass({
     });
   },
   handleCreateChannelClick: function (event) {
+    if (this.state.newChannelName.length < 5) {
+      this.refs.newChannelName.showAdvice('LBRY channel names must be at least 4 characters in length.');
+      return;
+    }
+
     this.setState({
       creatingChannel: true,
     });