To be fair, what news exactly do you want to read? If not paying for it in any form, and you can't be assed joining the free discord...the only news that actually matters is when the thread changes from beta to full.
Until you see that change, there's no news really is there?
I don't want to join discord, I discovered the game here, I follow it here and I'd like to buy it in steam once it comes out. The thread will only change from beta to full once it's leaked and ain't nobody got time for that.