I can expand on how Aywas does this!
Between updates given on the welcome back page and the sometimes-included coding corner stuff in the news from their coder, Yasu, there's also a behind-the-scenes thread!
Users can come in and ask about anything they want and one of the mods (usually Marjo I think but she's on break right now) will answer to the best of their ability!
It's really cool and everything together has been good way of keeping the users informed - some aren't happy, but Aywas is a big site and keeping everyone happy all of the time is impossible, so ;v;
Support for this! And would definitely like it if it was kept maintained longer than a month, haha ;w;