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 It’s a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
 
-It’s not in beta yet. Not even alpha! While NetNewsWire 5.0 is feature-complete as of May 25, 2019, it has known bugs — and, surely, plenty of unknown bugs.
+It’s not in beta just yet. Getting close! While NetNewsWire 5.0 is feature-complete as of May 25, 2019, it has known bugs — and, surely, plenty of unknown bugs.
 
 It supports [RSS](http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html), [Atom](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287), [JSON Feed](https://jsonfeed.org/), and [RSS-in-JSON](https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/rss-in-json/README.md) formats.
 
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 [Join the Slack group](https://join.slack.com/t/netnewswire/shared_invite/enQtNjM4MDA1MjQzMDkzLTNlNjBhOWVhYzdhYjA4ZWFhMzQ1MTUxYjU0NTE5ZGY0YzYwZWJhNjYwNTNmNTg2NjIwYWY4YzhlYzk5NmU3ZTc) to talk with other NetNewsWire users — and to help out, if you’d like to, by testing, coding, writing, providing feedback, or just helping us think things through. Everybody is welcome and encouraged to join.
 
-#### On accepting pull requests
+Every community is expected to abide by the code of conduct which is included in the [Contributing](Contributing.md) page.
 
-It’s pretty early still, and we have strong opinions about how we want to do things, so we’re not seeking help just yet.
+#### Pull Requests
 
-That said, we will seriously consider any pull requests we do get. Just note that we may not accept them, or we may accept them and do a bunch of revision.
-
-It’s probably a good idea to let us know first what you’d like to do. The best place for that is definitely the [Slack group](https://join.slack.com/t/netnewswire/shared_invite/enQtNjM4MDA1MjQzMDkzLTNlNjBhOWVhYzdhYjA4ZWFhMzQ1MTUxYjU0NTE5ZGY0YzYwZWJhNjYwNTNmNTg2NjIwYWY4YzhlYzk5NmU3ZTc).
-
-We do plan to add more and more contributors over time. Totally. But we’re taking it slow as we learn how to manage an open source project.
+See the [Contributing](Contributing.md) page for our process. It’s pretty straightforward.
 
 #### Building