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@@ -4,17 +4,16 @@ Your files, your server, your privacy. Litecloud is a lightweight, secure cloud
 
 ## What makes Litecloud special?
 
-🔒 **Privacy-first**: Your files are encrypted with military-grade AES-256-GCM encryption before they ever touch the disk  
+**Privacy-first**: Your files are encrypted with military-grade AES-256-GCM encryption before they ever touch the disk  
-🏠 **Self-hosted**: Run it on your own server—you control your data  
+**Lightning fast**: Built with Rust for maximum performance and safety  
-⚡ **Lightning fast**: Built with Rust for maximum performance and safety  
+**Developer-friendly**: Clean REST API lets you build custom apps and integrations  
-🔧 **Developer-friendly**: Clean REST API lets you build custom apps and integrations  
+**Dead simple**: One Docker command and you're running your own cloud  
-🚀 **Dead simple**: One Docker command and you're running your own cloud  
 
 ## Features at a glance
 
 - **Secure authentication** with JWT-based sessions
-- **File encryption** using AES-256-GCM (the same standard used by banks)
+- **File encryption** using AES-256-GCM
-- **Share files easily** with customizable access controls and expiration dates
+- **Share files easily** with customizable access controls and expiration dates*
 - **Full REST API** for building your own clients or automations
 - **Modern web interface** built with React and TypeScript
 - **Single binary deployment** — no complex setup required
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ Your files, your server, your privacy. Litecloud is a lightweight, secure cloud
 - **Rust + Rocket**: For blazing-fast, memory-safe performance
 - **AES-256-GCM encryption**: Your files are scrambled before they hit storage
 - **JWT authentication**: Secure, stateless session management
-- **Docker-ready**: Runs on port 8082 by default
 
 ### Frontend 
 - **React + Vite + TypeScript**: Modern, type-safe user interface, with all the added benefits of vite
@@ -34,10 +32,10 @@ Your files, your server, your privacy. Litecloud is a lightweight, secure cloud
 
 ## Why Rust? Why not just use Node.js?
 
-Great question! Rust gives us superpowers:
+Great question! Rust seemed to *just work* for this scenario:
 
 - **Memory safety without garbage collection** — no mysterious crashes or memory leaks, hence safer handling of encrypted files. 
-- **Fearless concurrency** — handle thousands of simultaneous uploads without breaking a sweat  
+- **Insanely good concurrency** — handle thousands of simultaneous uploads without breaking a sweat  
 - **Zero-cost abstractions** — all the safety with none of the performance overhead
 - **Type safety for encryption** — this really is a no-brainer for an app built with security in mind
 
@@ -45,11 +43,11 @@ Rocket framework adds the cherry on top with its elegant routing system and buil
 
 ## How secure is "secure"?
 
-We take security seriously:
+We take this *security* thing quite seriously:
 
 - **AES-256-GCM encryption**: The same encryption standard trusted by governments and militaries
-- **Server-side encryption**: Files are encrypted before they're written to your server's disk — even system administrators can't read your files without the keys
+- **On-pipe encryption**: Files are encrypted before they're written to your server's disk — even system administrators can't read your files without the keys
-- **No plaintext storage**: Your original files never exist unencrypted on the server
+- **No plaintext storage**: Your original files exist only before you upload them and after you download them back on your machine
 - **JWT-based auth**: Secure, industry-standard authentication tokens
 
 ## API-first design
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ Everything you can do in the web interface, you can do programmatically. The ent
 - Integrate file storage into your existing applications
 - Build a command-line client for power users
 
-*API documentation is coming soon — we're working on comprehensive docs with examples!*
+*API documentation is coming as soon as all the routes are battle-tested*
 
 ## Getting started in 30 seconds
 
@@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ That's it! Caddy will automatically get SSL certificates and proxy requests to y
 If you prefer a web interface for managing your reverse proxy:
 
 1. Set up [Nginx Proxy Manager](https://nginxproxymanager.com/) 
-2. Create a new proxy host pointing to `localhost:8082`
+2. Create a new proxy host pointing to `ip:8082`
 3. Enable SSL and let NPM handle the certificate generation
 4. Configure any additional security headers you want
 
@@ -123,14 +121,14 @@ server {
     ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/private.key;
     
     location / {
-        proxy_pass http://localhost:8082;
+        proxy_pass http://ip:8082;
         proxy_set_header Host $host;
         proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
         proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
         
-        # Important for file uploads, app default is 5 gb
+        # Important for file uploads
-        client_max_body_size 100M;
+        client_max_body_size 5G;
     }
 }
 ```
@@ -146,10 +144,10 @@ When exposing to the internet:
 
 ## What's next?
 
-- 📱 Mobile app development
+-  Mobile app development
-- 📚 Comprehensive API documentation
+-  Comprehensive API documentation
-- 🔍 File search and tagging
+-  File search and tagging
-- 🔄 Client-side sync capabilities
+-  Client-side sync capabilities
 
 ## Contributing
 
@@ -159,10 +157,10 @@ Found a bug? Have a feature idea? We'd love your help! Check out our issues page
 
 This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). This means:
 
-- ✅ You can use, modify, and distribute this software freely
+-  You can use, modify, and distribute this software freely
-- ✅ You can use it for commercial purposes
+-  You can use it for commercial purposes
-- ✅ You must provide source code to users (even if they access it over a network)
+-  You must provide source code to users, or a way to get to this page (even if they access it over a local network)
-- ✅ Any modifications must also be open source under AGPL-3.0
+-  Any modifications must also be open source under AGPL-3.0
 
 The AGPL ensures that if you run a modified version of Litecloud as a service, your users have the right to access the source code. This keeps the project truly open and prevents proprietary forks from closing off improvements to the community.