When "Subscriber-only archives" is enabled, it also makes all highlights of archived VODs visible to only subscribers. I believe that the point of highlights is to bring in new viewers -- they are an easy way for people who have just discovered the channel to quickly see what the channel is about. Therefore they shouldn't by default also be Subscriber-only. We should either have a separate preference for making Highlights/Clips/Trailers Subscriber-only, or have them just default to always being public. This makes it easier to get new viewers while still keeping the value of our Subscription high, because only subs get access to the full VODs and also make the highlights/clips from it. For music/concert streams this feels especially important because we want to show people a taste of what the show is like while still keeping our past shows only available to subscribers.

Currently, the channel trailer is visible only to subscribers when "Subscriber-Only Archives" is turned on for Affiliates. This should not be the case. The channel trailer should always remain public, as it's entire purpose is to entice new viewers who have just discovered the page to find out more information and follow. It's actually not even designed for subscribers so they probably won't even watch it, it's designed for new viewers. Furthermore, the channel trailer is never streamed, therefore it's not really an "archive" of any sort and does not need to be considered locked-away content. They should remain public no matter the status of our Sub-Only Archives preference.

I was going back to update my stream schedule after going through a game quicker than originally anticipated, and when I went to look to see if my schedule had updated, I saw there was overlap with upcoming streams and previously done streams. I do love the ability to pull up the streamer's schedule and see both upcoming streams and also streams that happened in the past 7 days and LOVE the ability to simple click and be taken to the VoD page, but it looks really messy the way the two overlap with each other. 

I included an image that shows my schedule with the highlighted part as upcoming streams and the past broadcasts that happened already left unedited. There needs to be some kind of clearer separation between the two in my opinion. Maybe above the timeline, across the 24 hours of a day, have two buttons centered above them with one saying "Upcoming streams" & "The Past Week's streams" as an idea. I'll be honest, I'm not someone trained to design UI's so I can't suggest too many ideas but I can for sure tell that the overlap between the two looks messy and uninformative. 

Also as a side mention, as someone who does late night streams usually running from 10:30 PM - 4:30 AM, on my schedule page it doesn't show the game cover for games on previous broadcasts because the sliver of time the stream starts before the end of a day is too small to fit a cover in. But for scheduled upcoming streams, it does show the game cover, but on the next line. Something to make sure game covers appear at all times would be huge. I also think this should be an easy fix for Past Broadcasts since the broadcast has already ended, the confusion on if the stream started last night or early this morning isn't really important since the stream already ended, as opposed to making sure the information is clear for when someone can catch an upcoming stream. 

Image for reference: https://i.imgur.com/MaDWoSd.png

Would be good if we could customize the video layout under "home" as well, not only under "videos". I make my past broadcasts into highlights, for archiving reasons. But when I do that, almost nothing shows up in "home" for potential new followers - just maybe the one last past broadcast that I did, that I didn't archive yet. Other than that, new potential followers won't see any more videos at the "home" section of a channel.

Make it so we can customize the page better. Maybe one bigger video on the top for a "channel welcome video", and then make us customize what type of videos to show underneath the welcome video section.

I talked to a lot of different Viewers and streamers to come up with these problems that the majority agree with.

The new Channel page isn't Intuitive at all. Only a small portion of the Offline banner is showing, and it's covered by channel trailers and other stuff.

Took me 4 minutes to find Clips, channel views is no where to be found, Titles are way too small and it also looks clunky and not intuitive when someone is live and you try to look at one of their sections/tabs.

Something like channel views especially is really nice to have in my opinion. It's good information to the viewers because they have a better indication of how much experience you have streaming. It's also a good indicator for how popular/how hard you've been working on your channel. It's also nice to look at from a streamers perspective. In that way it's easy for us to set small goals to accomplish.

Really hope you can listen to the community and fix some of these issues.

I'd like to be able to customize, what and in what order appears at the top of my channel page. I'm talking about last broadcast ("check out this stream from x ago"), autohosted channel ("while X is offline, check out"), and recent highlight ("X made a highlight of a recent stream"), which you can cycle through.

In my case, the thing that pops up as the first item is my last broadcast, but I'd actually prefer promoting the latest highlight as the first thing people see when they go to my channel.

Also, I feel like there is a way for hosting (including autohosting) to be featured a bit more noticeably, without hiding or replacing the promoted video or recent broadcast. Side-by-side cards, maybe?

The cards that fill the area previously occupied by the channel banner cover the majority of the available space. It's impossible to put any kind of branded image in there because it'll just get covered by the cards. This new channel page layout seems to seek to homogenize the look and feel of everyone's channels to the absolute exclusion of personality or meaningful customization.

My options for a channel banner now seem to be

1) My channel name a million times on a solid color background, or

2) A meaningless blob of color since I can't put my name or identity anywhere on it without it getting covered by the offline cards, and also it gets cut off abruptly at the bottom, and it's blurry AF.

Also, contrary to the assertion in your blog post, my settings page and the help page on channel customization have yet to actually be updated with any new guidance on file sizes or dimensions for channel banners under this new layout.