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 # Flood
-This is heavily a work in progress, and will be updated frequently.
+Flood is a new web interface for rTorrent. It's heavily a work-in-progress, but it's being updated frequently, and will "soon" be comparable to its counterparts.
 
 ## Test it out!
 * ensure rTorrent is running