Not a fan of Discord myself since I don't like chatroom. But thanks for pointing to reddit as a source of information. Although I would still question why there's a need for 1 month's delay with the news update. Since the main point here is about the transparency of crowdfunded game makers with their community. Going back to Lilith's Throne again for example. I'm not going to pretend there wasn't other issues (Innoxia repeatedly going back on her own words again and again really eroded trust the non-discord community had in her), but people having no idea what's going on in the large gap of update draught was a huge issue.
Bottomline, I don't see keeping timely information (unless it's once again, art works) away from non-subscribers to be a good reward for those who support the creator with money. Since it really doesn't give any incentive to those who are paying, all it does is grow distrust with people who are already hesitate to support the creator financially.