You can keep making baseless accusations or you can simply do as instructed! Up to you.
If you aren't willing to make the effort of creating a slack or telegram account (which is very easy), then do you really care about this project? You can consider it shady all you want but we have been conducting majority of communications through our slack and telegram ever since the beginning so there is no change. We have been consistent since the creation of this thread.
There are many ppl who doesn't want to make the 1000th account for reading something.
Every time after creating, I'm receiving more and more spam and crypto-phishing on the mail accounts...
And it seems telegram asks for a phone-number!? - no way!
edit: typo
Honestly if you are serious about due diligence on an investment project you will use a throwaway email and a throwaway Google Voice phone number to sign up for services you don't expect to continue to use. To those people who are not interested in doing that, there's no obligation for APX to step outside its chosen channels especially for you. The Do Your Own Research ethos involves effort on Your part.