From 0c5963963796a8ae97180a60a47079c985871354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Audrey Hamelers <audrey@datadryad.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 16:25:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Closes
 https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-product-roadmap/issues/3754

---
 app/views/layouts/_requirements.html.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_requirements.html.md b/app/views/layouts/_requirements.html.md
index 0dcdec30e..61e98bd00 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_requirements.html.md
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_requirements.html.md
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Most types of files can be submitted (e.g., text, spreadsheets, video, photograp
 * **Video**: `AVI, MPEG, MP4`
 * **Compressed file archive**: `TAR.GZ, 7Z, ZIP`
 
+<div class="callout">
+<p><span style="background-color: white; border-radius: 3px; padding: 4px 4px 2px">Note:</span> RAR (Roshal ARchive) is a proprietary compression format. Because users may not have access to the necessary tools to open RAR files, we cannot accept them for publication. Please open, widely supported, and easily accessible formats like those listed above.</p>
+</div>
+
 
 ## File size