Quick Comparison: Info on POL vs Lodestone

[Shai]

FFXI was notorious for leaving players in the dark.

Recent changes in their staff (within the last year) have resulted in a much more open exchange of information from devs to players. None of this "we'll look into it" but real snippets of information about what is definitely coming to the game.

It's pretty embarrassing, considering the new team on XIV was supposed to usher this in for the XIV players and (by comparison) is failing miserably.

POL
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml

Notice their bottom post (about to be pushed off the page) is May 16.
Since May 16, Lodestone has seen 3 updates. The 17b patch I hardly count, but for the sake of argument let's count it.

Lodestone
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/index.html

Honestly I haven't played XI since March 2010. I still check their front page and forums because they actually have continuous content updates that are interesting to read and make me feel like I understand how the game is about to change. Is this really that hard?

I don't want to come down so hard, but we have two (pseudo)separate teams coming up with two completely different strategies of interacting with their consumers. Can you guys take some lessons from whoever the front man is on XI? Whoever's in charge of POL main page updates and linking them to the forums needs to get that going on Lodestone.

Preferably it will link to actual update notes and not "We'll look into it" crap that floods our forum with non-answers.

I'm sorry if this sounds hostile. I'm just embarrassed on your behalf, SE.

PS: And what happened to the quick button to post internet links?
Edit: When I click to edit the hyperlink button is there.