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-# Community of Harbor
-Below are some of the partners and users of Harbor projects. If you wish to be listed on this page as reference partners or users, please open a GitHub issue.
+# Harbor Adopters
+Below is a list of adopters of Harbor in **production environments** that have
+publicly shared the details of their usage as well as the benefits provided by
+Harbor that their business relies on. There are some unreferenceable users that
+are leveraging Harbor that are not yet able to share details of their usage
+publicly at this time.
+
+There are many additional adopters of Harbor in the evaluating phase that will
+be added to this list as they transition to production deployments.
-## Users
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-## Partners