Indeed, in Facebook, sometimes a day there are several news, here it happens much less often.
Maybe the developers think that in the thread they have to write only the most important information, and people who are interested in the project will follow it on social networks.
In fact, so it is necessary to do. In the thread there should be the most important, key information. If a person is interested in knowing the details, he will look through all the social networks and events. It's like an WP and a one-pager.