diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/icon_request.yaml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/icon_request.yaml
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-name: Icon Request
-description: Suggest an icon to be included in Fork Awesome
-labels: icon-request
-body:
-  - type: markdown
-    attributes:
-      value: |
-        - Please search through both open and closed issues and make sure that your icon has not been requested earlier.
-        - If you find an existing issue, please 'vote' for the icon by [reacting](https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/) ( with '👍' or '👎' ) to the request.
-        - Please do not comment if you have no relevant information to add. It is extra noise for everyone subscribed to this issue.
-        - Subscribe to receive notifications on status change and new comments.
-
-  - type: checkboxes
-    attributes:
-      label: Acknowledgement
-      options:
-        - label: I have searched through both open and closed issues and confirm that this icon has not been requested earlier.
-          required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Icon
-      description: |
-        Please add an image for this icon ( or a URL to an existing icon file, preferably in SVG )
-        As a general rule, images with simple shapes and only one color are the best.
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: input
-    attributes:
-      label: Name suggestion
-      description: What name should be used for this icon?
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Use-case
-      description: Describe how a user of fork-awesome would use that icon in their project.
-    validations:
-      required: true
-
-  - type: textarea
-    attributes:
-      label: Additional information for brand icons
-      description: |
-        If this icon is a "brand" icon, let us know why this brand is important and what they do.
-        Also, please link to any trademark ( or other legal ) policies that might be relevant to the use of the brand's logos.
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/newMaintainersSought.yaml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/newMaintainersSought.yaml
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+name: Project seeks new maintainers! 
+description: else archival planned by mid 2024
+labels: 
+body:
+  - type: markdown
+    attributes:
+      value: |
+        - ⚠️ This project has not had a release for ~2 years, another release is not planned. Rather, this project will be archived by mid 2024 unless someone else takes over maintenance. This is because:
+        - > The driving force for forking—to have a community run icon set—has not been realized. The site and font build processes are broken. The source icon files need to be reworked or remade. The project focuses on icon fonts, despite icon fonts as a technology being outdated. Many other free icon sets now exist.
+        - Read the full retrospective here. People interested in taking over maintenance can write in the matrix room mention me @douginamug in an issue or write to me on on mastodon. ⚠️
+
+  - type: checkboxes
+    attributes:
+      label: Acknowledgement
+      options:
+        - label: I am aware that this issue will not be worked on unless other maintainers take over the project.
+          required: true
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a6a2b4bc5..4c40d20d9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-⚠️ **This project has not had a release for ~2 years, another release is not planned. Rather, this project will be archived by mid 2024 unless someone else takes over maintenance. This is because:**
+⚠️ **This project has not had a release for ~2 years, and another release is not planned. Rather, this project will be archived by mid 2024 unless someone else takes over maintenance. This is because:**
 
 > The driving force for forking—to have a community run icon set—has not been realized. The site and font build processes are broken. The source icon files need to be reworked or remade. The project focuses on icon fonts, despite icon fonts as a technology being outdated. Many other free icon sets now exist.
 
-**Read the full [retrospective here](posts/2023-04-10_forkawesomeIntrospection/forkawesomeIntrospection.md). People interested in taking over maintenance can write in the [matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#forkawesome:matrix.org) mention me `@douginamug` in an issue or write to me on on [mastodon](https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug).** ⚠️
+**Read the full [retrospective here](posts/2023-04-10_forkawesomeIntrospection/forkawesomeIntrospection.md). People interested in taking over maintenance can write in the [matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#forkawesome:matrix.org), mention me (`@douginamug`) in an issue or write to me on on [mastodon](https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug).** ⚠️
 
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