If Will is correct and they did the redesign for free, then surely they at least intended to help us? Given this fact, as a general rule, do we want to encourage or discourage such behaviour?
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 Will is correct and they did the redesign for free, then surely they at least intended to help us? Given this fact, as a general rule, do we want to encourage or discourage such behaviour?
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.