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I second this. Not going into the ridiculousness of removing DS entirely, you have your reasons I suppose.

But regarding yesterday, in between the announcement of DS closing and the re-opening of the server, the only piece of information we had was the cryptic maintenance message, saying "Maintenance in X hours", and the info that the server was down. No ETA, no clear "server will be down from around x to y", meaning we could only guess that the "in x hours" meant the server would be back up, which it kind of was, for a short while.

In addition to telling us where we can look, perhaps have a global announcement method ? The website seems advanced enough, maybe push notifications, a sticky below-header banner / screen corner info panel could be displayed if you're logged in onto the website, so we can easily know the latest news ? At the very least improving upon the maintenance message contents or having more of them is kind of necessary so that we better understand what is going on.

Likewise, the changelog is extremely empty, the latest message there dates from the 18th of may, and there were definitely a lot of changes done since then. If we are to remove Discord, you need to keep us up to date with what's happening, what bugs are resolved or being worked on, etc.

As expected, the removal of DS has removed the main communication channel between you (the devs) and us (the players). I understand you cannot be expected to to be productive resolving bugs while addressing every message and snarky comment like you did (especially as a small team), but being "in the dark" regarding server info and status when it has issues (and considering it currently still has a lot of those) is a big problem.