There is not really a mechanism for that to my knowledge.. But I understand your point. I'll consider opening a portion of the discord in the future.
if you can't make a public part of the discord, could you open a forums section on the itch page and possibly show bits of what you're working on here? the lack of update news on both the itch page and twitter bothers me just because there's literally no news at all since the release of the game on those places.