You have to unfortunately use a forum post aggregator as linked in my signature. They do comment and participate in the forums, unfortunately they can't reply to everything and so it seems quite random.
I've requested many times that perhaps community manager or Devs post to a designated thread in usually a stickied first or subsequent post to address issues being raised repeatedly, then everyone could be directed there for answers and fewer threads overall, making for me a more valuable direction to discussion. But I'm sure that would be difficult to moderate.
So for now, check out these (Mikael commented today that more comms on what is coming will be out within next few weeks and issues with rep, trading and servers have all been discussed (dedicated server status web-page incoming! for instance):
http://eft.recoil.org/posts
http://www.altairvista.com/