User blog comment:Tower12346/My Episode Guide Project/@comment-41561-20161012075401

In my opinion, I'm all in for the updated look. Having the avatars will make it easier to search for specific channels since people recognise their branding based from it.

This may be a minor issue as it might affect quite few articles, but for games/series that rely heavily on collaboration, there could be a problem. Take Civ 5 for example. It has 22 episode guides, 19 of which are from the same channel (Seasons 2-9 on Duncan's, Seasons 10 onwards on Civilization's). Having the Avatars on the updated episode guide may not work well, bringing back to the second problem as described in Part 1 above by you.

Now, an obvious solution is to have short and simple titles, just like what Civ 5 had. But, let's say for some reason the title cannot be shorten, the problem remains. One way to ease the issue is some visual difference (e.g. colour coding). Simple, but may not be effective.

Another way, after playing around with the template, is to add custom images. I did a test here on my sandbox, testing with different image sizes. I think this method could be a nice alternative should Avatars not work.