Closes Updated README.
An opinionated Discord API for Python 3 and asyncio.
+**THIS API IS CURRENTLY IN A PRE-ALPHA STAGE, SO NEW VERSIONS WILL CONTAIN BREAKING CHANGES WITHOUT A MINOR
+VERSION INCREMENTATION. ALL FEATURES ARE PROVISIONAL AND CAN CHANGE AT ANY TIME UNTIL THIS API IS IN A USABLE
+STATE FOR A FULL FIRST RELEASE.**
+
+ **[Please VISIT MY DISCORD](https://discord.gg/HMnGbsv) if you wish to receive progress updates or help out, any
+ help and contribution is more than welcome :-)**
+
## What is this API?
A base Python Discord API framework for CPython 3.7 and CPython 3.8 Designed for ease of use,
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that are able to be opted into.
I also aim to provide as much automated test coverage as possible. I want to be able to immediately prove that a
-function does what is expected of it, not push to production and find out I forgot to regression test something
-manually. The Discord API provides too much functionality to be able to feasibly manually test every corner before
-every commit. Aiming for testability also enables this API to be kept as tidy as possible internally, as each testable
-unit is forced to be easily mockable or able to be extracted and used independently of the rest of the API. Think LEGO,
-but it is Python code. The same is said for security testing, documentation generation, and releasing. The entire
-deployment pipeline is automated as much as possible to keep the updates flowing and to prevent human error wherever
-possible.
+function does what is expected of it to provide hard evidence that a build is not fundamentally broken before
+deploying it.
The final aim is for maintainability. This API attempts to be as documented and expandable as possible internally. If
something isn't right and you have some understanding of Python, hopefully you should be able to pick it up and tweak it
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## What is this API **not**?
-This API is **not** designed to be backwards compatible with ye olde Python version. Python gets new features for a
-reason: that reason is optimisation, usability, and readability. If you want to use a version of Python that is three
-major versions behind the most recent major stable release, this is not for you.
-
-It is **not** a self-botting API. Go elsewhere. Unlike other APIs, the aim is to not provide the user with tools
-clearly implemented for the sole purpose of exploiting Discord and breaching their ToS. It screws up your experience of
-their platform and it screws up my experience of their platform, so this API will not encourage it in any way.
-
-It is **not** an OAuth2 API wrapper for Discord. Maybe some day.
+This API is **not** for people using anything older than CPython 3.7.
It currently is **not** able to provide voice functionality. Again, this may be added in the future.
