I'd say be patient. More player feedback isn't always a good thing.

Players get excited. We think of stuff that sounds awesome at first but when thought through really won't work at all. We exaggerate stuff we deem negative, most of the time unintentionally. We often don't mention much of the stuff we deem positive, also most of the time unintentionally. We ask for fast patches and early releases and then we complain the devs didn't take enough time.

The devs have to filter through all this information, plus whatever logs they themselves have of server activity and their own experiences, which takes time. On top of that, judging by the fairly bug-free state perp was released in, the devs take their bug fixing seriously. Which takes even more time.

In the end I'd prefer a well-thought out patch that's bug free once 2011 hits rather then a quick buggy fix based on the limited experiences and flawed observations of all of us players ( myself included ) by the end of this week.

Not to say that it's a bad thing that we use these forums to suggest, discuss and even whine about all sorts of things. As long as it's done with a certain degree of respect for each other it's great fun for us players and it may just inspire a dev to come up with something new. But the forums are where the talk happens. That shabby office with the 10 year old couch is where the designing happens.

I'd personally say they should release a weekly dev blog, no matter how short, to keep us informed of what they're thinking about and working on. Release the blog weekly so all us rabid players stay happy and then focus on pushing out quality patches only when they're ready.