I'll say this once so please READ. NO he did NOT leave the discord, do NOT expect any major update until next summer, he STILL does these "update" livestreams where he just makes request arts and sometimes a gameplay art (background, interaction, characters, there's no consistency), you can interact with him on discord but he'll never talk about an update and his fanatics will aggressively defend him. All in all just ignore this entire forum and forget this game exists for at least a year and then come back check it once and if there's no progression just forget this game ever existed. It has the abandoned tag for a reason. This is the last time I'll reply to this thread as I'm just going to ignore it and any replies.
The discord link is somewhere in this thread, I shared it not long ago and I just can't be bothered to look up what the url was again. It was a pain to find it