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+Our new lesson infrastructure, [The Carpentries Workbench](https://carpentries.github.io/workbench/)
+became the default for official Carpentries lessons in May 2023.
+
+The Workbench is designed to be more accessible and easier to use than the styles
+infrastructure by separating tools from the content. As such, **using this repository for
+lessons is no longer supported by The Carpentries Core Team**.
+
+As the previous lesson template is still being used by some community members, e.g. in [The Carpentries Incubator](https://carpentries-incubator.org), this repository and the website it builds are still maintained with minimal support from The Carpentries team.
+
 [![Website Check Status](https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-example/workflows/Website/badge.svg)](https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-example/actions/workflows/website.yml?query=workflow%3AWebsite)
 
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 > became the default for official Carpentries lessons in May 2023.
 >
 > The Workbench is designed to be more accessible and easier to use than the styles
-> infrastructure by separating tools from the content. As such, using this repository for
-> lessons is no longer supported by The Carpentries Core Team.
+> infrastructure by separating tools from the content. As such, **using this repository for
+> lessons is no longer supported by The Carpentries Core Team**.
 >
 > **If you would like to create a new lesson, we encourage you to use The Workbench templates below.**
 >