You’re half right.
It is rather common for HF to be slow to respond officially on the HF website and forget to make official announcements. I don’t think there is any particular space for official announcements unless they are written directly in HTML. At this point, the general public is not hearing much about what is going on. In that sense, we can say that they are silent.
What’s half wrong is that in many cases, if you ask on Discord, they will tell you rather quickly. So it’s not like they’re being hard silent on purpose. It means they aren’t creepy.
Also, you can sometimes learn as much as you can from the staff who are often on the forums. I think Discord might be a good place for yours.