lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm | 10 ----------
 lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm   |  2 --

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
index 4bcab96f61469df0ff22a806f64741e12d1d281d..c07aaa9f7056509c16008ea1e301ba74e647a7d3 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
@@ -64,16 +64,6 @@ 	chomp @url;
 	$self->{cloneurl} = \@url;
 }
 
-# TODO: can we remove this?
-sub footer_html {
-	my ($self) = @_;
-	my $footer = $self->{footer};
-	return $footer if defined $footer;
-	$footer = try_cat("$self->{mainrepo}/public-inbox/footer.html");
-	chomp $footer;
-	$self->{footer} = $footer;
-}
-
 sub base_url {
 	my ($self, $prq) = @_; # Plack::Request
 	if (defined $prq) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
index 5b4d6c185722bdeb98f408acabb258687b40123b..e8f1fbf0d49007fd2f1466b7511f23a9d5dc9bfa 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
@@ -252,8 +252,6 @@ sub footer {
 	my ($ctx) = @_;
 	return '' unless $ctx;
 	my $obj = $ctx->{-inbox} or return '';
-	my $footer = $obj->footer_html;
-	return $ctx->{footer} = $footer if $footer;
 
 	# auto-generate a footer
 	chomp(my $desc = $obj->description);