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Did you try clicking on the x in the upper corner?

The message is only temporary, it will go away by itself soon.

The Core Team spent a great deal of time evaluating the merits of using in-app messages and in the end decided that they should be implemented 1) infrequently and 2) with highly relevant content. CiviCRM is an incredible CRM that places a great deal of emphasis on end user privacy. Because of this, our own data on users within the CiviCRM ecosystem is less than perfect, to say the least.

In-app messages present the best opportunity to provide relevant information such as releases, security updates, major events, trainings, and opportunities for the ecosystem. Their objective is both to educate and engage end users such that we can deepen community participation, the result of which is a better overall product for everyone.

These messages can target users based on information they voluntarily provide, such as geographic location, CMS used, etc., thereby allowing the Core Team to display (or not) messages that may be highly relevant to them specifically. They can be toggled off by each user and hidden for the duration of the message, which will typically be between 3 and 5 days maximum, not to exceed 2 messages per month.

The Core Team is committed to producing the very best open source CRM and is taking steps to more closely align our efforts with the market that uses CiviCRM. In order to do so, we need to leverage all of the available communication channels at our disposal that serve to connect our efforts to end users without compromising privacy. In-app messages, though not perfect, offer an extremely efficient and effective way of achieving this objective.

jgowans ,

thanks for your explainations

coleman Watts

will consider it