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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions docs/community.md
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## Getting help

We recommend asking for help on the [Observable forum](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/help/6). Or if you prefer chat, join the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join).
We recommend asking for help on [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions).

We encourage you to share your work, no matter how messy, on [Observable](https://observablehq.com). Sharing live code is the easiest way to let people see what you see, and to debug your problem. Strive for a [minimal, reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) — it helps people hone in on your problem more quickly.

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* Upvote 👍 or comment on [GitHub issues](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues). We’d love your input on what to build next. If your desired feature isn’t already there, or if you’ve found a bug, file an issue and tell us about it.

* Answer questions or participate in discussions on the [Observable forum](https://talk.observablehq.com/) and the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join). You’ll help others, and might learn something yourself, too.
* Answer questions or participate in discussions on [GitHub](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions). You’ll help others, and might learn something yourself, too.

* Join the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join) to meet others using Plot.

* Open a pull request! Read our [guide to contributing](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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**Plot’s goal is to make the easy things easy, and fast, and then some.**

:::tip
Whether or not Plot succeeds at this goal is up to you — so we’d love [your feedback](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/site-feedback/3) on what you find easy or hard to do with Plot. And we encourage you to [ask for help](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/help/6) when you get stuck. We learn a lot from helping!
Whether or not Plot succeeds at this goal is up to you — so we’d love [your feedback](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/new/choose) on what you find easy or hard to do with Plot. And we encourage you to [ask for help](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/new?category=q-a) when you get stuck. We learn a lot from helping!
:::

Since Plot and D3 have different goals, they make different trade-offs. Plot is more efficient: you can make charts quickly. But it is also necessarily less expressive: bespoke visualizations with extensive animation and interaction, advanced techniques like force-directed graph layout, or even developing your own charting library, are better done with D3’s low-level API.
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