-### InspIRCd
+### Important Notice
-InspIRCd is an IRC daemon written entirely from scratch, it is one of the
-few IRC daemons to be written in C++ and it was released under the GNU
-General Public License. InspIRCd is the second most used IRC daemon
-according to the ranking on SearchIRC.
+The `master` branch contains the latest development version. If you are running
+a server then you probably want the `insp20` branch. You can obtain this from
+the [releases](https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/releases) page or by running
+`git checkout insp20` if you are installing via Git.
-The first stable release of InspIRCd was in 2002.
+### About
+
+InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux,
+BSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems which was created from scratch to be stable,
+modern and lightweight.
+
+As InspIRCd is one of the few IRC servers written from scratch, it avoids a
+number of design flaws and performance issues that plague other more established
+projects, such as UnrealIRCd, while providing the same level of feature parity.
+
+InspIRCd is one of only a few IRC servers to provide a tunable number of
+features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By
+keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability,
+security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of
+many different users.
### Links
-Website: http://www.inspircd.org
-GitHub: https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd
+* [Website](http://inspircd.org)
+* [GitHub](https://github.com/inspircd)
+* IRC: \#inspircd on irc.inspircd.org
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