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@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ If you think you have found a bug in zrok, or you need help with a specific issu
 
 https://openziti.discourse.group/
 
-There is a zrok topic available there. The entire OpenZiti and zrok team is monitoring that discourse. They're not monitoring this issue database.
+There is a zrok topic available there. The entire OpenZiti and zrok team are monitoring that forum. They're not monitoring this issue database. If open an issue here anyway, we're probably stil going to direct you to the Discourse forum. :-)
 
 This issue database is for vetted roadmap items and confirmed bugs with the core open-source portion of zrok.
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