[MehranMarxian]

Requested by Mehran · project thread

Before: the site's files took up 344 MB. 336 of the media files (297 MB) weren't used by any live page.

After: the site's files take up 60 MB. Every live page loads exactly what it did before.

What changed

• Group A, removed: 268 files (210 MB) whose file name appears nowhere in the repo, in any spelling (plain, %20, HTML-escaped).
• Group B, removed: 68 files (87 MB) mentioned only by draft or archive pages (noindex drafts, archive/ legacy pages). Those pages will now show missing images. The three journal posts in archive/ that are still live are not affected.
• .gitignore: the five folders that are now empty are added, so local copies you keep there won't be committed again: Images/3D/, Images/AI/stroies about humans/, Images/UnusedImages/3D/, Images/UnusedImages/AI/, Images/blog/golden-gate-glass/.
• Docs: backlog item 1 in docs/SITE-OVERVIEW.md is marked done, and there's a new changelog line.
• The full per-file list, as you approved it in the thread, is site/unused-media.md and site/unused-media.csv in the project files.

How it was tested

• Link check (from Add PR checks for links, HTML validity and phone/desktop rendering #7), run on this branch: 0 missing files on all 30 live pages, plus css/site.css. It covers src, href, poster, srcset, data-full and CSS url(), with exact capitalisation.
• Render check (from Add PR checks for links, HTML validity and phone/desktop rendering #7) on all 28 live pages at 390 px and 1440 px: no local 404s and no JavaScript errors. The only failure is the known sideways scroll on PStoComfy2026.html, which Stop the OpenLayer article scrolling sideways on phones #4 fixes.
• Open PRs: none of them add a reference to a removed file. Lighter pages: WebP images, sized images, WOFF2 font #8 only switches pages to new WebP files and keeps the originals.

Risks and follow-ups

• Your local copy: when you pull main after merging, git deletes these files from your local folder too. Copy anything you want to keep (for example Images/AI/) outside the repo before pulling.
• Recovery: everything stays in git history. To restore a file: git checkout 3ea5480 -- "<path>".
• Repo download size: git history still holds the files, so a fresh clone is still big. Shrinking that would need a history rewrite and force-push, which I won't do without a separate OK.
• Outside links: other websites that linked directly to one of these image URLs (Behance, old posts) will get a 404.

Suggestions

1. After Lighter pages: WebP images, sized images, WOFF2 font #8 merges, the 51 JPEG/PNG originals it replaced with WebP could be removed the same way (about 15 MB).
2. Delete or archive the draft home pages at the root, since their images are now gone.