I doubt if the devs would post here. You can talk with Gordon and see. Or Pann maybe she is the community head.
Emails stopped after the first 1000 of the Alpha 1 backers and the few pre alpha 1 and 2 backers. The persistence bug kept eating people and they wanted to figure out what was going on from that before inviting in the mass. More backers will come after the patch then the alpha 2 and 3 folks then the 69.00 package holders last.
Probably a week or so for the those guys.
It was really stable overall. Ran pretty well. The action gathering is a decent first pass, but parts are very rough still. The combat is a little clunky but it is fun. It is rough yes. But sometimes a little rough is fun too.
A lot of stuff is still being worked on, but the live servers have been up and running 24/7 for like 6-8 weeks. They have server campaign worlds running for 1-2 weeks at a time and then crushing them. The sieges are simplistic but okay. They can always add more options later on.
Many folks were waiting for 5.3 and it is teetering and tottering up now. Hopefully population can start ramping up and that will bring lots of fun and frustration.