Of course, MOTUNation is not affiliated with MOTU. If I don't hear about it here, I normally don't know. There are quite a few users (the vast majority?) who don't frequent these boards, unlike you and me.bayswater wrote: (although, ironically, not MF 3.2.1), usually a week or so, after they are noted here.
If MOTU is worried about a massive hit on their servers (justifiable), they can do what everybody else does: roll out the announcements over time. I notice that even Apple does that. App Store and Software Updates are never rolled out at once. Taking care of as many Macs as I do, I observe that every time Apple rolls out an update. Often I'll know about it one to three days before I see the announcement from Apple and different users get notified on different days. I often read about them here first as it turns out.