I'm active on discord, post weekly reports on patreon, and publish a daily progress tracker on our website, patreon page, and discord server. My assumption is that if anyone is interested in the next release, they would check one of those pages and see we're still actively working on the next release.
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Understandable, I personally just don't want to add yet another Discord that I won't be active in, and I don't have a good income to warrant paying for a Patreon sub in general so I typically don't look at Patreon links. Upon checking the Patreon though... most updates are all locked behind the base pay wall. I have seen other Patreons at least freely allow people to see the update notes or something, so like... Due to me being poor as fuck, I can't exactly see anything in regards to updates. Which leaves this page still, which has been neglected ^^;; pair that with other comments also saying stuff (like one of the replies that you even responded to above this post) it kinda makes sense why I felt like the game had died. After all, the last news thing posted on this page was over a year ago >_>;; and like... there hasn't exactly been any new update either. Regardless, doesn't change that I am happy to hear this isn't a dead game, it is really well done and I look forward to updates and next parts to the game :)
lil P.S. bit: have you considered putting like... older versions for free but current version as a paid for option on itchio like some other devs do? It would potentially help you as well as keep the players in the loop? ^^; Specifically for folks like me who can maybe make 1 payment vs a paid subscription...
There is still the progress tracker on their website. While it might not be an actual written update you can always go there and see what is done. Also if you look on the timeframes between the last updates it shows clearly that updates are taking their time.
For a developer it is hard to manage the degree of taking the time it needs to finish something and still making continues updates so no one thinks something is abondend. itch is not the best place to do regular updates so I can fully understand the dev not doing it here.
Also to the "what other people say". I already seen people calling a game abondend where the last update was a week ago so you not always can trust on this :D
I think if the game really catched you and you like updates accessing the discord server is not a bad thing if it is to much for you thats understandable than you have regulary the website I think. otherwise you might just not be interested enough to regulary check it which is completly fine too.
At least thats just my point of view.