Merge pull request #904 from glemieux/readme-update

Correct out-of-date information on README

README.md

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 This repository holds the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES).  FATES is a numerical terrestrial ecosystem model. Its development and support is primarily supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, through the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment - Tropics ([NGEE-T](https://ngee-tropics.lbl.gov/)) project.
 
-For more information on the FATES model, see our [User's Guide](https://fates-users-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [technical documentation](https://fates-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).
+For more information on the FATES model, see our [User's Guide](https://fates-users-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [technical documentation](https://fates-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).  
 
+Please submit any questions you may have to the [FATES Github Discussions board](https://github.com/NGEET/fates/discussions).
 
 ## Important Guides:
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 [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/NGEET/fates/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
 
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 ## Important Note:
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 https://github.com/ESCOMP/cesm
 
-## Important Note About Host-Models and Compatible Branches:
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-The FATES and E3SM teams maintain compatability of the NGEET/FATES master branch with the **E3SM master** branch. When changes to the FATES API force compatability updates with E3SM, there may be some modest lag time.
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-The FATES team maintains compatability of the NGEET/FATES master branch with the **CTSM fates_next_api** branch.  Since the FATES team uses this branch for its internal testing, this compatability is tightly (immediately) maintained and these two should always be in sync.  However, CTSM master may become out of sync with FATES master for large periods (months) of time.
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+The FATES, E3SM and CTSM teams maintain compatability of the NGEET/FATES master branch with the E3SM master and CTSM master branches respectively. There may be some modest lag time in which the latest commit on the FATES master branch is available to these host land models (HLM) by default.  This is typically correlated with FATES development updates forcing necessary changes to the FATES API.  See the table of [FATES API/HLM compatibility](https://fates-users-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/Table-of-FATES-API-and-HLM-STATUS.html) for information on which fates tag corresponds to which HLM tag or commit.