You’ve probably seen it elsewhere by now, but establishing more robust communication between the core software projects and the wider OSM community is one of my tasks as part of the CSDF role with the OSMF.
At the moment, I’m thinking of an informal user-oriented recap here on the forum, highlighting some selected changes to osm-website and similar projects, similar to what I’ve done for OHM for some time. I’ll be trawling through the Git commit history and pull request discussions so you won’t have to. It would be on a roughly monthly basis, to give the developers a little breathing room for fit and finish. (I’ll probably be leaning on the CWG to amplify these changes for those who don’t follow the forum.)
That said, don’t wait for my posts; feel free to talk about the changes you see and rope me into any discussions where you want to provide feedback. Also, those who participate in translating the website on Translatewiki.net already get a sneak peak at most changes, to the extent that they affect user-facing strings. A little incentive for helping out with that non-coding aspect of the project.