If the behavior is “redesign the aesthetics to be less pleasing, and introduce a bunch of bugs” then I think discourage is probably winning out here...
I personally would prefer to encourage it, since I don’t view it as that bad, but I can see where people are coming from here. Especially since the entire membership is being used for rather unexpected live test. I totally understand that at a certain point you have to just go live and hot-fix from there, but a top-level post saying “site is live, please discuss” or at least a solid reassurance of “we will fix these bugs” would have been very nice.
If the behavior is “redesign the aesthetics to be less pleasing, and introduce a bunch of bugs” then I think discourage is probably winning out here...
I personally would prefer to encourage it, since I don’t view it as that bad, but I can see where people are coming from here. Especially since the entire membership is being used for rather unexpected live test. I totally understand that at a certain point you have to just go live and hot-fix from there, but a top-level post saying “site is live, please discuss” or at least a solid reassurance of “we will fix these bugs” would have been very nice.