3 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fatcat_scholar/templates/base.html b/fatcat_scholar/templates/base.html
index 174dfcf..584f950 100644
--- a/fatcat_scholar/templates/base.html
+++ b/fatcat_scholar/templates/base.html
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
       <img class="mobile-hide" src="/static/ia-wordmark.svg" style="margin-left: 10px; width: 180px;" alt="Internet Archive">
     </a>
     <span style="margin-top: 0.5em;">
-      <a class="ui grey label" href="{{ lang_prefix }}/help#bugs"><i>alpha</i></a>
+      <a class="ui grey label" href="{{ lang_prefix }}/help#bugs"><i>beta</i></a>
     </span>
 
     <div class="right menu">
diff --git a/fatcat_scholar/templates/help.html b/fatcat_scholar/templates/help.html
index a147461..893fe6b 100644
--- a/fatcat_scholar/templates/help.html
+++ b/fatcat_scholar/templates/help.html
@@ -240,15 +240,19 @@ apply range queries like <code>year:&gt;1989 year:&lt;2000</code>.{% endtrans %}
 <h2>{% trans %}Work In Progress{% endtrans %}</h2>
 
 <div class="ui yellow message" style="color: black;">
+  <!-- old notice
   {% trans %}This service is in "alpha". It has several bugs, experiences downtime, and has not been officially announced.{% endtrans %}
+  -->
+  {% trans %}This is a new service. Metadata is being improved and features have not been finalized.{% endtrans %}
 </div>
 
+<!--
 <p>{% trans %}This project is currently a <i>prototype</i>{% endtrans %}
+-->
 
 <p>Some known bugs and issues:
 
 <ul>
-  <li>web.archive.org PDF links sometimes return "not found" errors. This is impacting up to 1% of recent papers. In almost all cases there is a preserved copy of the file that should be available.
   <li>Poor metadata quality for conference proceedings. Many are labeled "unpublished" and are not associated with the conference.
   <li>Duplicate versions of same work. Eg, different versions of the same paper or dataset. We are working on basic entity-deduplication in the fatcat catalog.
   <li>Mis-matching of file content or version with work metadata. For example, sometimes pre-prints or author manuscripts are incorrectly associated with version-of-record metadata, or vica-versa.
diff --git a/fatcat_scholar/templates/home.html b/fatcat_scholar/templates/home.html
index 8721ece..2c3f864 100644
--- a/fatcat_scholar/templates/home.html
+++ b/fatcat_scholar/templates/home.html
@@ -27,19 +27,22 @@
   </div>
 </div>
 
-<!-- alpha banner -->
+<!-- start notice banner -->
 <div class="ui vertical stripe segment" style="background-color: #fbbd08a6;">
   <div class="ui container" style="">
     <div class="ui centered grid">
       <div class="ui sixteen wide mobile twelve wide computer column" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">
         <a name="alphanotice" href="{{ lang_prefix }}/help#bugs" style="color: black;">
+          <!-- DEPRECATED: old banner
           {% trans %}This service is in "alpha". It has several bugs, experiences downtime, and has not been officially announced.{% endtrans %}
+          -->
+          {% trans %}This is a new service. Metadata is being improved and features have not been finalized.{% endtrans %}
         </a>
       </div>
     </div>
   </div>
 </div>
-<!-- end alpha banner -->
+<!-- end notice banner -->
 
 <div class="ui container" style="padding: 1em; margin-top: 2em;">
   <div class="ui four doubling cards">