Part 1 (Test area) has been discussed here. Just for information, maybe there will be further input from the international community.
Part 2 (automated messages) are some kind of pain in the … Another complain about this nonsense here. For every new topic you get the same nonsense messages from Discourse. This feature would be helpful if Discourse would be able to find topics which are really related to the actual one but that does not seem to be the case. Maybe this issue should be shifted to a separate topic by one of the @moderators ?