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 # DEPRECATED
 
-Please see https://github.com/browser-fs/NOTICE
+Please see the [notice](./notice.md)
 
 # BrowserFS
 BrowserFS is an in-browser file system that emulates the [Node JS file system API](http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html) and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends. BrowserFS also integrates nicely into the Emscripten file system.

notice.md

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+# DEPRECATION AND FORK NOTICE
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+Hey there, this is the current maintainer of BrowserFS.
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+I've been working on BrowserFS for over a year now, and have made some big improvements.
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+A few months ago, I began seperating some backends from BrowserFS to be placed into different packages. Along with this, I created the browser-fs organization on Github and the browserfs organization on NPM. I made new organizations to keep the repositories and packages organized. Another reason I did so was because John Vilk, the original author of the project, no longer had the time to administer the project. This means at the time of writing this, I still do not have access to the NPM package.
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+I feel that now, the project has changed so significantly it is no longer the same BrowserFS. Even the name, *Browser*FS, implies it is meant for browsers, which it has outgrown. For that reason, I think that the project should be something new, but still carry the legacy of BrowserFS. I've decided to call it **ZenFS**, since a core goal of mine is ease of use and peace of mind.
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+In a letter to Robert Hooke in 1675, Isaac Newton famously wrote "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". This is most certainly true in the case of ZenFS. Without the creation of BrowserFS, I would not have found it and been amazed at a complete file system in Typescript/Javascript.
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+I would like to extend my deepest thanks to Dr. Emery Berger. Shortly after submitting my first pull request to BrowserFS, I reached out about becoming a maintainer of the project. Dr. Berger welcomed my maintainership of the project, and greatly helped in some other matters.
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+Thank you very much to the community for helping me with this project by submitting issues and pull requests.
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+The NPM organization `browserfs` has had all of its packages deprecated, with a message pointing to the new package as well as this notice. All of the versions published under `@browserfs` have also been published under `@zenfs`.
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+I hope that ZenFS can continue the legacy of BrowserFS, and can reach the same popularity and reliability.
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+Until next time,  
+**James P.**  
+a.k.a. Dr. Vortex  
+BrowserFS maintainer  
+ZenFS creator