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 ## Getting Help
 
+Please use these community resources for getting help. We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests and have limited bandwidth to address them.
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 - Ask a question on [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) and tag it with `react-native`
 - Start a thread on the [React Discussion Board](https://discuss.reactjs.org/)
 - Join #reactnative on IRC: chat.freenode.net