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* doc: why does it matter

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* aaron's suggestions
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@@ -15,15 +15,9 @@ On this site, we document Athens in detail. We'll teach you what it does, why it
Athens provides a server for [Go Modules](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules) that you can run. It serves public code and your private code for you, so you don't have to pull directly from a version control system (VCS) like GitHub or GitLab.
#### Why Does it Matter?
#### Why does it matter?
Previously, the Go community has had lots of problems with libraries disappearing or changing without warning. It's easy for package maintainers to make changes to their code that can break yours - and much of the time it's an accident! Could your build break if one of your dependencies did this?
- Commit `abdef` was deleted
- Tag `v0.1.0` was force pushed
- The repository was deleted altogether
Since your app's dependencies come directly from GitHub, any of those above cases can happen to you and your builds can break when they do - oh no! Athens solves these problems by copying code from VCS's into _immutable_ storage.
There are many reasons why you'd want a proxy server such as security and performance. [Take a look](/intro/why) at a few of them
#### How Do I Use It?