We have always used the notion of "let's try new things, if it sucks, we know what worked and we'll just go back to what worked." This is the mentality that has allowed us to try out multiple things on the site over the years, some that were very positive, some.... not so much
I used to say "we're unfortunate that we don't have a development server to work on some of these things," but the reality is that no amount of dev work would ever prepare us for the live test from the forum members, and that's usually a very quick "this sucks" or "this is awesome". We've had some home runs, we've got some.... slices that make you think we're playing a sick game of golf. In any event, we've always listened to the community. Without the people here wanting to be here, just "being right" is a pretty shallow victory when there is no one there to celebrate it with. So please, keep bringing us your guys feedback on what we're doing right or wrong. This is supposed to be a place where we can all generally share in our love for autoflowers, and I think AFN is back on the right track to be that place for decades to come if we so choose it!