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 # threaded network chat refactor
 
-The code has been refactored and it compiles. Hopefully it won't explode, but that if it does, that just means we have
-actual meaningful work to do.
+The code has been refactored and it compiles. Hopefully it won't explode, but we were going to be
+doing a bunch of bug fixes anyway.
 
 ## TODO