What message is being sent?
There are seldom postings in News and Announcements since the News Blog became to preferred vehicle to deliver that news.
Perhaps a link to that page might be in order?
There are often Announcements on the Front Page, though. But, they are removed once they are no longer relevant.
If you want to see how much interaction between players and devs is in this game I would suggest you to take a look in Game Bugs forum, that one is constantly updated and with new threads, some of them even has responses from devs very often. Also, Living Story related threads are very active too.