Add note about project retirement to docs

Resolves #51 Signed-off-by: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
getnikola · May 18, 2018 · 7c2d1e0 · 7c2d1e0
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-========
-Coil CMS
-========
+===================
+Coil CMS is retired
+===================
 
-Making Nikola accessible for non-programmers, casual users, and all other
-people that don’t feel comfortable using the command line.
+The Coil project is retired due to low interest and lack of resources. Instead, we recommend using `Dato CMS or Netlify CMS <https://getnikola.com/blog/a-cms-or-two-for-nikola-dato-cms-and-netlify-cms-integration.html>`_.
 
-Setup
------
-
-Setting up Coil CMS is described in `the documentation <https://coil.readthedocs.io/admin/setup/>`_.
+We cannot guarantee full compatibility with modern versions of Nikola, or that anything still works with Coil.
diff --git a/docs/admin/setup.rst b/docs/admin/setup.rst
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ __ https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml/blob/master/examples/css/stylesheet.css
 Special config for demo sites
 -----------------------------
 
-The `demo site <https://coildemo-admin.getnikola.com/>`_ uses the following two
-settings, which might also be useful for some environments:
+The former demo site used the following two settings, which might also be
+useful for some environments:
 
 * ``COIL_LOGIN_CAPTCHA`` — if you want reCAPTCHA to appear on the login page
    (aimed at plugic environments, eg. the demo site), set this to a dict of

diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
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    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
-Coil demo site
-==============
+Coil CMS is retired
+===================
 
-The Coil demo site is available at https://coildemo-site.getnikola.com/ and https://coildemo-admin.getnikola.com/ (user: demo, password: demo).
+The Coil project is retired due to low interest and lack of resources. Instead, we recommend using `Dato CMS or Netlify CMS <https://getnikola.com/blog/a-cms-or-two-for-nikola-dato-cms-and-netlify-cms-integration.html>`_.
+
+We cannot guarantee full compatibility with modern versions of Nikola, or that anything still works with Coil.
 
 Coil CMS
 ========