I just joined the discord channel. In general the statement that discord is more active is true, but I wouldn't say it's the opposite from the forum from (English) Pyra-news perspective (the German Pyra topic has a bit more chatter).
It's more active there regarding support and posts in general.
In the Pyra topic the last 'news' I see is the following:
View attachment 40026
In the Pyra-dev topic is a bit more background details about production. While not going into much detail it does describe ED's active in getting things done, but financing everything is a bit of a hassle.
I think ED mentioned it in his posts here that some stuff happens in the background, which causes delays, and resolving all those things costs time (and eventually money, which he appears to be raising himself to compensate).