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* clarifying the readme

we don't have a public stable proxy and don't have concrete plans to release one, so let's not say we do for now.

* Bolding "experimental" and providing the experimental proxy URL
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arschles authored and marpio committed Aug 7, 2019
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The proxy implements the [Go modules download protocol](https://docs.gomods.io/intro/protocol/).

There is currently an experimental public proxy, and we have plans to host a more stable public proxy with more guarantees. We also have a community of folks using Athens inside their organizations as an internal proxy. In either deployment, developers set their `GOPROXY` environment variable to point to the Athens proxy of their choice. At that point, `go get`, `go build`, and `go build`s will use the proxy to download dependencies as necessary.
There is currently an **experimental** public proxy (at https://athens.azurefd.net) that you can use to try out Athens, without installing anything locally. We also have a community of folks using Athens in production inside their organizations as an internal proxy. In either deployment, developers set their `GOPROXY` environment variable to point to the Athens proxy of their choice. At that point, `go get`, `go build`, and more commands will use the proxy to download dependencies as necessary.

Athens proxies are highly configurable, so they can work for lots of different deployments. For example, proxies support a wide variety of storage drivers including:

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