eggzec · saudzahirr · Aug 18, 2026 · Aug 18, 2026
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ public/brand/         logo, project icons
 src/
   main.ts             single entry, mounts whatever a page contains
   data/site.ts        projects and people. Edit content here
-  components/         nav, footer, cards, mark draw, reveals, marquee
+  components/         nav, footer, cards, mark draw, reveals
   lib/eggzec-block.ts the eggzec Block bitmap display font, as TypeScript
   styles/             tokens, base, layout, components, pages
 ```
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ Almost everything is data rather than markup, and it all lives in
 | Projects, taglines, repository and docs and PyPI links | `PROJECTS` |
 | Human facing name when the repo name is not one | `display` on a project |
 | Which projects lead the landing page | `LEAD` in `src/data/site.ts` |
-| Who builds on our packages | `src/data/used-by.ts` |
 | Maintainers | `PEOPLE` |
 | Nav links | `NAV` |
 | Footer links | `COLUMNS` in `src/components/footer.ts` |
@@ -64,12 +63,6 @@ card appears twice.
 Landing page statistics are counted from the catalog at runtime, so the numbers
 cannot drift from what is actually listed.
 
-`src/data/used-by.ts` is the one generated file. It comes from GitHub's
-dependency graph — the `network/dependents` listing for each repository —
-filtered to named organisations and checked one at a time against the API. Only
-pydoe, pyswarm, mcerp and soerp have any dependents, so that is what the list
-draws on. Regenerate it by hand rather than trusting it to stay current.
-
 ## Design
 
 Colours are the Electropop palette on white:

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@
               GitHub
             </a>
           </div>
-
-          <div class="hero__ticker" data-reveal data-reveal-delay="380">
-            <p class="mono hero__ticker-label">Used by</p>
-            <div class="hero__ticker-strip" data-marquee data-speed="34" data-used-by></div>
-          </div>
         </div>
       </section>
 

diff --git a/public/brand/users/anesthesiasimulation.png b/public/brand/users/anesthesiasimulation.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/atomicateam.png b/public/brand/users/atomicateam.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/bgu-aidnd.png b/public/brand/users/bgu-aidnd.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/cmu-db.png b/public/brand/users/cmu-db.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/codecentric.png b/public/brand/users/codecentric.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/curtin-timescales-of-mineral-systems.png b/public/brand/users/curtin-timescales-of-mineral-systems.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/emsl-computing.png b/public/brand/users/emsl-computing.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/gemseo.png b/public/brand/users/gemseo.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/ibm.png b/public/brand/users/ibm.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/icb-dcm.png b/public/brand/users/icb-dcm.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/icrar.png b/public/brand/users/icrar.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/industrial-optimization-group.png b/public/brand/users/industrial-optimization-group.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/lanl.png b/public/brand/users/lanl.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/llnl.png b/public/brand/users/llnl.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/nanograv.png b/public/brand/users/nanograv.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/nasa.png b/public/brand/users/nasa.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/national-digital-twin.png b/public/brand/users/national-digital-twin.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/openmdao.png b/public/brand/users/openmdao.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/openworm.png b/public/brand/users/openworm.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/paypal.png b/public/brand/users/paypal.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/philipmorrisintl.png b/public/brand/users/philipmorrisintl.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/qubole.png b/public/brand/users/qubole.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/sandialabs.png b/public/brand/users/sandialabs.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/seduceproject.png b/public/brand/users/seduceproject.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/smtorg.png b/public/brand/users/smtorg.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/terrapower.png b/public/brand/users/terrapower.png
diff --git a/public/brand/users/wwu-mmll.png b/public/brand/users/wwu-mmll.png
diff --git a/src/components/content.ts b/src/components/content.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  */
 
 import { PEOPLE, PROJECTS } from '../data/site'
-import { USED_BY } from '../data/used-by'
 
 /**
  * `<div data-people>` on /community/.
@@ -32,28 +31,6 @@ export function mountPeople(root: ParentNode = document): void {
   ).join('')
 }
 
-/**
- * `<div data-used-by>` in the hero ticker.
- *
- * Logos rather than names: at a glance a reader recognises a mark faster than
- * they read an org login. Filled before the marquee mounts so it measures real
- * content, and each one links to the repository the dependency was verified in,
- * because a claim like this is only worth making if it can be checked.
- */
-export function mountUsedBy(root: ParentNode = document): void {
-  const host = root.querySelector<HTMLElement>('[data-used-by]')
-  if (!host) return
-
-  host.innerHTML = USED_BY.map(
-    (d) => `
-      <a class="used-by" href="https://github.com/${d.repo}" target="_blank" rel="noopener"
-         title="${d.name} uses ${d.uses} in ${d.repo}">
-        <img class="used-by__logo" src="/brand/users/${d.login.toLowerCase()}.png"
-             alt="${d.name}" height="68" loading="lazy" decoding="async">
-      </a>`,
-  ).join('')
-}
-
 /**
  * Fills `[data-stat]` elements from the catalog rather than from hard-coded
  * markup, so the landing-page numbers cannot drift from what is actually

diff --git a/src/components/marquee.ts b/src/components/marquee.ts
diff --git a/src/data/used-by.ts b/src/data/used-by.ts
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ import { mountFooter } from './components/footer'
 import { mountCounters, mountReveals } from './components/reveal'
 import { mountDisplayType } from './components/wordmark'
 import { mountDrawFields } from './components/draw-field'
-import { mountMarquees } from './components/marquee'
 import { mountPixelRules } from './components/pixel-rule'
 import { mountPointerEffects } from './components/pointer'
 import { mountMotes } from './components/motes'
 import { mountFeaturedGrid, mountCatalog } from './components/project-cards'
-import { mountPeople, mountUsedBy, syncStats } from './components/content'
+import { mountPeople, syncStats } from './components/content'
 import { defineEggzecText } from './lib/eggzec-block'
 import { prefersReducedMotion } from './lib/env'
 
@@ -69,13 +68,11 @@ function boot(): void {
   mountFeaturedGrid()
   mountCatalog()
   mountPeople()
-  mountUsedBy()
   syncStats()
   mountDisplayType()
 
   // Behaviour over whatever ended up in the DOM.
   mountDrawFields()
-  mountMarquees()
   mountPixelRules()
   mountReveals()
   mountCounters()

diff --git a/src/styles/components.css b/src/styles/components.css
@@ -803,87 +803,6 @@
   color: var(--ink-muted);
 }
 
-/* ---- marquee ----------------------------------------------------------- */
-
-.marquee {
-  --marquee-shift: 0px;
-  --marquee-duration: 30s;
-  --marquee-direction: normal;
-  position: relative;
-  overflow: hidden;
-  mask-image: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, #000 8%, #000 92%, transparent);
-  -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, #000 8%, #000 92%, transparent);
-}
-
-.marquee__viewport {
-  overflow: hidden;
-}
-
-.marquee__track {
-  display: flex;
-  width: max-content;
-}
-
-.marquee__track[data-animated='true'] {
-  animation: marquee-scroll var(--marquee-duration) linear infinite;
-  animation-direction: var(--marquee-direction);
-}
-
-.marquee:hover .marquee__track[data-animated='true'] {
-  animation-play-state: paused;
-}
-
-.marquee__group {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: var(--space-7);
-  padding-right: var(--space-7);
-  flex: 0 0 auto;
-}
-
-@keyframes marquee-scroll {
-  from {
-    transform: translateX(0);
-  }
-  to {
-    transform: translateX(calc(var(--marquee-shift) * -1));
-  }
-}
-
-/* ---- tool chips inside the marquee ------------------------------------- */
-
-/* ---- used by ------------------------------------------------------------ */
-
-/* Sized for a landing-page logo strip, not for GitHub's own "Used by" widget,
-   which runs at 24px because it is a dense sidebar list of user avatars. These
-   are marks meant to be recognised in passing, so they get roughly double that.
-
-   Hover darkens and nothing else. The strip is moving, so anything that changes
-   the logo's size or position under the cursor reads as a glitch. */
-.used-by {
-  display: inline-flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  padding: 0.4rem 1.35rem;
-}
-
-/*
- * Every logo is delivered at one height, so the strip needs a single `height`
- * here and nothing else. The width cap is for the occasional wordmark that is
- * much wider than it is tall.
- */
-.used-by__logo {
-  width: auto;
-  height: 68px;
-  max-width: 210px;
-  object-fit: contain;
-  opacity: 0.62;
-  transition: opacity var(--dur-base) var(--ease-out);
-}
-
-.used-by:hover .used-by__logo {
-  opacity: 1;
-}
-
 /* ---- spotlight surface -------------------------------------------------- */
 
 [data-spotlight] {

diff --git a/src/styles/pages.css b/src/styles/pages.css
@@ -110,25 +110,6 @@
   margin-top: var(--space-2);
 }
 
-.hero__ticker {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: var(--space-4);
-  margin-top: var(--space-6);
-  padding-top: var(--space-6);
-  border-top: var(--border) solid var(--line);
-}
-
-.hero__ticker-label {
-  flex: 0 0 auto;
-  color: var(--ink-faint);
-}
-
-.hero__ticker-strip {
-  min-width: 0;
-  flex: 1;
-}
-
 /* ---- install strip ------------------------------------------------------ */
 
 .install {